Tips Help Somersworth Police Find New Hampshire Fugitive: Update

CONCORD, NH — A lot of tips, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, led to the capture of a fugitive of the week from November.

Craig Robert Wiggin, 43, who was last believed to be in Rochester, was arrested on Wednesday in Somersworth on multiple outstanding arrest warrants including bail violations after being charged with possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, failure to maintain sex offender registration, and revocation, too. Tips, according to Jeffrey White, a deputy marshal, initially pointed investigators to both New Hampshire and Maine. Somersworth police were also provided with information that Wiggins might be in their city, he said.

“Alert officers were able to see Mr. Wiggin in a car last evening and the vehicle was stopped by multiple officers from the Somersworth Police Department,” White said. “Wiggin was ordered from the car at gunpoint and was arrested without incident.”

Wiggin was processed and then taken to the Strafford County Jail where he is being held.

U.S. Marshal Nick Willard said the arrest was “another fine example” of the work by law enforcement officers in the state.

“The Somersworth Police Department has long played a role in the U.S. Marshal’s-NH Joint Fugitive Task Force and we are grateful for this partnership,” he added.

According to superior court records, Wiggins has a lengthy criminal history.

Along with a child sex assault conviction in the late 1990s, Wiggin was also charged with witness tampering in June 1999 and convicted on a felony receiving stolen property charge out of Somersworth in March 1998. A receiving stolen property charge out of Nottingham in September 2008 was later nolle prossed.

Wiggin pleaded guilty to an issuing bad check charge out of Somersworth in May 2011. He also was found guilty of felony theft out of Barrington in August 2013. While in prison, he was accused of delivery of articles to prisoners-conspiracy and later convicted of the charge in October 2015. A violation of probation or parole charge afterward which was settled in January 2019.

In May 2014, he was convicted of a violation of probation or parole charge out of Dover, a theft conviction out of Rochester, an escape charge out of Brentwood, and habitual offender and disobeying an officer in Rochester. Wiggin was also a fugitive of the week back in January 2014 and later found in Maine.

Editor's note: This post was derived from information supplied by the U.S. Marshals Service and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the removal request process for New Hampshire Patch police reports.

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