7 Arrested By Hudson And Nashua Police During Granite Shield Effort

NASHUA, NH — Last month, Nashua and Hudson police were involved in a Granite Shield operation for two weeks between March 11 and March 22.

During the effort, which was funded through a New Hampshire Substance Abuse Reduction Grant, seven people were arrested on “various drug crimes, crimes frequently associated with criminal behavior related to drug activity and other criminal offenses,” according to Sgt. John Cinelli, the public information officer and communications division supervisor for the Nashua Police Department.

The following people, from unknown addresses, were charged:

Aaron Deciccio, 39, was arrested on a Londonderry police warrant as well as a resisting arrest or detention charge.

William King, 40, was arrested on three electronic bench warrants and a capias warrant as well as a felony count of possession of fentanyl-subsequent.

Sarah Lafond, 34, was arrested on a capias warrant as well as credit card fraud-less than $1,000, theft by unauthorized taking, a felony due to two prior conviction, two receiving stolen property charges, felonies due to two prior convictions, and breach of bail.

Gregory Levesque, 35, was arrested on an electronic bench warrant on an original charge of sale of a controlled drug.

John Oriol, 31, was arrested on an electronic bench warrant.

Christopher Rowley, 34, was charged with felony sale of crack cocaine-subsequent, breach of bail, and three resisting arrest or detention charges.

William Zero, 39, was arrested on an electronic bench warrant and a capias warrant.

Deciccio and Oriol were released and will be arraigned in Nashua District Court at a future date.

King, Lafond, Rowley, and Zero were held in the Hillsborough County Department of Corrections. Levesque was held on $5,000 cash bail. They will be arraigned at a future date in Nashua District Court.

Past Charges, Convictions

Zero, according to court records, was convicted on drug charges out of Nashua in April and September 2019. He has also faced strangulation, drug, witness tampering, stalking, and other charges in Manchester, with most of the charges being nolle prossed. Zero was accused of stalking, evidence, and tampering charges in October 2021 in Manchester. In January 2023, he pleaded guilty to the tampering and stalking charges. Zero was accused of violation of probation in December 2023, and a warrant was issued for his arrest on March 12. He is due back in court on April 15.

Rowley is a felon due to a violation of a protective order charge out of Gilford from December 2008. Other charges, around the same time, including violation of protective order, criminal threatening, and second-degree assault, were nolle prossed. In Concord in June 2013, he was accused of theft and later pleaded guilty to the charge. He was also charged with criminal liability-robbery in Concord in 2014 and pleaded guilty to the charge. In a separate Concord case, he was accused of robbery, burglary, criminal threatening, reckless conduct-deadly weapon, and criminal restraint charges. He pleaded guilty to two charges. In Franklin, in 2015, he was arrested and convicted on meth sale charges and also violated his probation in 2017 and 2018, after 12 drug charges out of Franklin from 2016. Rowley was also convicted on a criminal threatening charge out of Northfield in October 2018. In December 2018, there were 11 drug, resisting, and escape charges out of Franklin filed against him.

Oriol was accused reckless conduct, assault, and other charges out of Nashua in May 2011 and criminal liability-burglary in Meredith in September 2018 but the charge was nolle prossed. He pleaded guilty to a receiving stolen property charge out of Nashua in January 2013. A theft charge in October 2019 in Nashua was nolle prossed. Oriol has an active receiving stolen property and falsifying physical evidence case out of Nashua from March 2023.

Levesque is a felon due to a first-degree assault conviction out of Hampton from January 2017. A year later, he was arrested on drug charges out of Portsmouth. Levesque was convicted on a single count. In Nashua in April 2022, he was arrested on drug charges and pleaded guilty to a single count. Levesque has an active felony theft charge out of Nashua, working through superior court.

Lafond is a felon due to theft and credit card fraud convictions in March 2022 out of Manchester. She also pleaded guilty to drug charges at the same time. Lafond has active drug case in Manchester from November 2023 from two separate cases.

King was arrested on a felony subsequent drug charge in Nashua in October 2023. He failed to appear in court in November 2023. King was indicted on the charge in January. He failed to appear at a dispositional conference hearing in superior court on Jan. 24 and another warrant was issued for his arrest. King is due back in court on May 7.

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