Two Arrested After Gas Station Robberies in Manchester

New Hampshire State Police arrested two people in connection with early morning gas station robberies in Manchester over the weekend.

Stephen Ham, 47, of Concord, and Debbra Ham, 50, of Nashua, were arrested and charged on Nov. 16.

According to a press statement from Lt. Maureen Tessier, the public information officer for the Manchester Police Department, gas stations on Second Street and Eddy Road were robbed in the early morning hours of Nov. 16.

In both cases, officers spoke with store clerks who alleged that a masked man, armed with a knife, walked into both stores, demanded money, and robbed them.

At the first location, a Mobil station, the man allegedly “threatened to kill the clerk if he did not comply and walked around behind the counter attempting to get more money from the lottery drawer,” according to Tessier. At the second location, a Shell station, the clerk reportedly asked the man to remove his mask and instead, the alleged robber “around the counter towards the clerk, who reportedly feigned a fainting spell,” according to the statement.

“The suspect then removed the entire register off the counter and ran out of the store with it,” Tessier alleged.

At the second robbery, both the clerk and a customer inside at the time were able to provide police with a partial plate number and a vehicle description. A bulletin was put out police and a state trooper on Route 3 in Merrimack, reportedly spotted the vehicle, and stopped it on Amherst Street in Nashua.

Both Stephen Ham and Debbra Ham were allegedly inside the car, according to Tessier.

“Police observed loose money and a register believed to have been taken from the Shell station,” Tessier alleged. “Based on further investigation, Stephen Ham was identified as the suspect in both robberies.”

Stephen Ham was later charged with two counts of robbery and was held as a fugitive from justice due to a warrant out of Pepperell, Mass., for armed robbery.

Debbra Ham was allegedly the suspected getaway driver in the shell station robbery, according to police, and was charged with criminal liability to robbery.