Plea Coming For Parolee Accused Of Being Chased Through Concord By Troopers, Cops In 2024: Follow-Up

CONCORD, NH — A New Hampshire man, attempting to elude escape on a warrant for assault, threat, and domestic violence, was back in court facing charges related to a late September 2024 police and trooper chase in Concord.

Charles Frederick Cutting II, 39, previously of Rumney, was in Merrimack County Superior Court on Wednesday, where he has been charged and indicted on two felony counts of reckless conduct-deadly weapon, as well as reckless operation and disobeying an officer after a chase through Downtown Concord on Sept. 23, 2024.

On the night in question, Concord police met with New Hampshire State Police troopers in Bow for a joint operation warrant to arrest a man at a hotel on Hall Street in Concord. The agencies went to the hotel, surrounded the building, and attempted to locate and arrest the suspect, Cutting.

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Before making the arrest, though, Cutting was accused of fleeing the scene in a pickup truck. He was accused of driving recklessly onto Interstate 93 and then, onto Fort Eddy Road, to Interstate 393. Cutting managed to escape the police near Exit 3.

A state trooper found the pickup truck at NHTI, Concord’s community college. The school was placed on a shelter-in-place during the incident, and Cutting later surrendered to state police after a lengthy period of communication with them.

Listen: Snippets from 13 minutes of scanner audio as NHSP and Concord police attempted to secure Charles Frederick Cutting II in September 2024:

Editor’s note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Merrimack County Superior Court and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains how to request the removal of a name from New Hampshire Patch police reports.

News 603 posted a video from NHTI on Facebook in September 2024:

Video from a dashcam on Fort Eddy Road, reportedly recorded part of the chase, including the suspect driver driving the wrong side of the road with state troopers chasing him, was posted to the Horrible Drivers of New Hampshire Facebook Group.

During the arraignment in September 2024, a prosecutor said Cutting had several prior convictions during the past two decades, including multiple reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, criminal liability for the conduct of another, and criminal mischief charges in New Hampshire.

According to superior court records, those crimes occurred in Plymouth and Rumney in November 2003.

Other convictions included 11 other felonies in Texas — felony domestic violence in 2011, evading detention, violation of a protective order, attempted firearm possession charges in 2016 and 2017, unauthorized use in 2019, and a drug conviction in 2020, for which he was out on parole.

In court, Aileen O’Connell, an attorney for Cutting, said she and Terri Harrington, of the Merrimack County Attorney’s Office, had reached a plea deal and needed a hearing date, preferably later in the year.

After the attorneys approached Judge Dan St. Hilaire, a Dec. 10 plea and sentencing hearing was booked for the case.

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