Prison Assaulter Arrested After NH Corrections Receives Tip: Follow-Up

CONCORD, NH — A tip from the community led corrections officials in the Granite State to capture another fugitive of the week.

Jesse Robert Hermonat, 26, was wanted on a parole violation warrant stemming from an initial conviction of assault by a prisoner. During the assault, investigators said he caused “serious bodily injury to his victim.” Hermonat, however, was out of prison.

After being featured, the department received a tip that he might be in East Wakefield. On Thursday, probation parole officers and Wakefield police went to the location of the tip and found him, according to a news release.

“Hermonat was taken into custody without incident and is currently being held at the Carroll County House of Corrections,” the release said. “The New Hampshire Department of Corrections thanks the Wakefield Police Department and the public for their assistance in Hermonat’s apprehension.”

Hermonat was charged with felony unarmed robbery in Rochester in July 2016, according to superior court records. According to Foster’s Daily Democrat, he robbed a gas station. He pleaded guilty to the charge in January 2017.

While in prison in Berlin in September 2017, he committed assault as a prisoner. In October 2017, he was charged with assault by a prisoner-assault by an inmate at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord. Hermonat pleaded guilty to the Concord charge in February 2019 and the Berlin charge in March 2019. His sentence on the Berlin charge was amended in November 2020.

According to Middleton police, Hermonat was wanted by corrections for violating probation for failing to turn himself in at the Strafford County Jail after being arrested on a theft charge in December 2014. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

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