Crime & Safety

Portsmouth Police: Hanover Street is Clear

UPDATE: Incident with an Army deserter is barricaded in a hotel room has been resolved.

Update, 4:14 p.m. Police have issued an all clear for Hanover Street and resolved the issue at the hotel, according to a post on Facebook.

The original post is below

The Portsmouth Police Department issued an alert on Facebook at around 2:30 p.m. requesting that residents stay out of the downtown area due to an emergency situation.

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Later, information began to trickle out that an Army deserter had reportedly barricaded himself in a room at the Hilton Garden Inn on Hanover Street, according to WMUR-TV.

The man is considered armed and dangerous.

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