SWAT Team Called To Pembroke For Alleged Trespasser

Update: John Lafratta was found and arrested in Manchester, according to Chief Dwayne Gilman of the Pembroke Police Department. He is being held at the Merrimack County House of Corrections. Police thanked the public and the press for sharing the information about the case.

The original story is below.

PEMBROKE, NH — Police in Pembroke are asking for the public’s help in locating John Lafratta, 54, a man who is wanted on warrants after an alleged trespassing incident earlier today on Brickett Hill Road. Police were called to a home that he reportedly once owned on July 28, 2017, and learned that “several threats” were allegedly made, in writing, that he was “armed and dangerous on the outside of the residence depicting that he was in the house and would not leave without resistance," according to Chief Dwayne Gilman of the Pembroke Police Department. Officers from Allenstown, Bow, Epsom, and Pembroke searched the home at first and then asked for backup.

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“The Central NH Operations Unit (responded) for a more thorough search,” Gilman noted. “No one was found in the residence.”

Police believe in that small window of time, Lafratta was able to leave through a back door at the home. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Concord NH Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Cops around the capital region are currently searching for Lafratta who has active “pending warrants,” Gilman stated. He also noted that investigators would like to speak with him about the incident earlier today.

Anyone with information about Lafratta’s location are being asked to call the Pembroke Police at 603-485-3421.