Nashua Man Faces Gun Threat Charge After Being Accused Of Crashing His Car Into A Plow

NASHUA, NH — A man from Nashua faces a gun threat charge after an incident involving a crash with a plow on March 14.

Around 10 a.m., officers were sent to the 7-Eleven on Spit Brook Road for a report of a two-vehicle crash that had escalated into one driver threatening the other with a gun. When they arrived, police spoke with a man from Dunstable, Massachusetts, who was driving a Ford F-350 with a plow, clearing snow from the store’s parking lot, when a 2012 Acura struck his truck. After the crash, the plow driver and the driver of the Acura, Wesley Adan Quiroz, 22, of Caldwell Road in Nashua, became “involved in a verbal altercation.”

Quiroz was accused of saying, “I got something for you,” to the plow driver, running to his vehicle and pulling out a pistol. A passenger in the Acura, a woman, also of Nashua, “dove on top of Quiroz and yelled ‘stop,’” according to an affidavit.

The plow truck driver feared for his safety, ran into the store, and called police. A store employee then locked the store entrance.

“Quiroz then attempted to enter the store but walked away after realizing the door was locked,” an affidavit said.

When police arrived, they spoke with the plow truck driver and Quiroz. Quiroz, the affidavit said, “lied to officers by telling them he did not have a firearm” but later admitted he had a pistol in his car. A detective found the loaded Smith & Wesson 9 mm in the car’s glove compartment.

The passenger declined to provide a statement.

The store employee related what the plow truck driver told her and accused Quiroz of attempting to enter the store, “yelling at (the plow truck driver),” saying he wanted to talk to him.

A detective viewed security footage at the store, saw the plow driver enter, and make a phone call. The detective saw the employee locking the door and Quiroz attempting to open the locked door, the report said.

Later, the plow truck driver went to police headquarters and gave another statement, which was recorded, to detectives.

A warrant was issued against Quiroz on a felony criminal threatening charge on March 16. He was arrested later that day. The affidavit said Quiroz declined to speak to detectives without an attorney present.

Quiroz was held on preventive detention after an arraignment and disposition conference hearing in Hillsborough County Superior Court South on March 17. He returns to superior court on May 23 for another disposition conference hearing.

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