Teen Arrested 5 Days After Release From Jail

A Nashua man released from jail after serving a one-year sentence is back in custody, arrested for a crime police say he committed fewer than nine hours after he was released from Hillsborough County House of Corrections.

Charles Gary Daye, 19, of 14 Lovewell St., Nashua, has been charged with burglary, a class B felony, the result of an investigation by into the burglary of the Chinese restaurant on Daniel Webster Highway.

On Sept. 22, authorities were called to South Garden, 559 Daniel Webster Highway, shortly after 10:30 a.m. for a report of a burglary where a back door had been forcibly opened and an undisclosed amount of cash had been stolen, police say.

Investigators learned officers had been alerted to a suspicious male, Daye, in the area of Mast Road and Daniel Webster Highway just before 6 a.m., police say. Daye had just been released from jail after serving a year long sentence on weapons charges.

Investigators learned the property that Daye allegedly had on him early that morning matched what had been stolen from South Garden and an investigation with Daye as a “person of interest” was opened, police say.

A warrant was subsequently obtained and police say Daye was arrested on Sept. 27 during a required parole visit at the probation and parole office in Nashua.

He is being held on $10,000 cash bail and was placed on a 72-hour hold. He was scheduled for arraignment in Milford's district court on Sept. 28. A class B felony carries a sentence of 3½ to 7 years in jail.

Exactly one year prior to the South Garden burglary, Daye was spotted acting suspiciously and found to be in possession of stolen property before the burglary was reported. According to a report by the Nashua Telegraph*, Daye was arrested on Sept. 22 of last year, after police said they spotted him casing a couple of homes in the city.

After observing him for a period of time, Nashua officers approached Daye and found him to be in possession of two firearms, according to the report.

They arrested him on a warrant for failure to appear in court on a trespassing charge. Later that afternoon, guns matching the description of the ones found in his possession were reported stolen from a home on West Hollis Street. He was charged with that burglary and another on Eaton Street, also in Nashua, from the day before, the Telegraph reported. At the time, the story says, Daye, then 18, was homeless.

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