Registered Sex Offender Caught Prowling in Hollis

On May 19 at about 12:30 a.m. Hollis Police Officer David Duquette was on routine patrol on Clinton Drive in Hollis when he saw a man dressed in black and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt emerging from the side of 17 Clinton Drive, an office complex off Runnells Bridge Road (Route 111).

Police have fielded complaints of several nighttime burglaries and thefts on Clinton Drive and the Route 111 corridor in recent months.

Officer Duquette questioned the man, identified as Terence Halter, 27, of 15 Wilder St., Nashua, as to his reasons for being there at that hour when all of the businesses in the area are closed. 

Upon further investigation Halter was arrested for prowling. In the course of the investigation it was discovered that Halter is a registered sex offender as of a March 2007, conviction under NH RSA 649-B:4, for two Counts of uses of computer services prohibited.

Halter was taken to Hollis Police headquarters where he was released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail. An arraignment is scheduled for June 12 in Nashua District Court.