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Judge grants PR bail for fraud suspect pending July hearing

By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Writer | Jun 20, 2018

Staff photo by Dean Shalhoup Kane Bloomfield, left, consults with his lawyer, Attorney Daniel Duckett, during Bloomfield's bail hearing in Superior Court. Charged with fraud last year, Bloomfield was released on bail pending his next hearing in July.

NASHUA – A judge has granted Kane Bloomfield, the former Massachusetts man now living in a Merrimack apartment, personal recognizance bail pending a July hearing on charges that include fraud and several failures to appear in court as ordered.

Bloomfield, 33, has been held in Valley Street jail in Manchester since April, when authorities picked him up on a warrant reportedly stemming from one of his court defaults.

But Judge Jacalyn Colburn, citing an absence of evidence that Bloomfield presents a flight risk or is a danger to himself or others, modified his bail to $10,000 personal recognizance.

“I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt,” Colburn told Bloomfield. “But if you don’t come to court on July 13, I’m going to revoke your bail,” she added, referring to Bloomfield’s next scheduled appearance in Hillsborough County Superior Court-South.

Bloomfield’s lawyer, Daniel Duckett, and state prosecutors have been working on moving the case along since Bloomfield’s arrest a year ago on a felony fraud offense.

Assistant County Attorney Lisa Drescher, who stood in for Assistant County Attorney Michele Battaglia at the hearing, said Bloomfield’s criminal record is “replete with defaults,” most of them tied to Massachusetts cases.

The court dates at which Bloomfield allegedly failed to appear include a competency evaluation hearing, according to Drescher.

His Massachusetts charges include a series of defaults, at least one violation of probation, an arrest for cruelty to animals and a violation of a restraining order, which was followed by another violation of probation arrest, Drescher said.

Nashua police had their first dealings with Bloomfield just about a year ago, when they issued a warrant for his arrest following an investigation into a report of a fraudulent $2,500 check being cashed at a Nashua bank.

It was one of three fraudulent transactions Bloomfield was accused of conducting; the others were at banks in Tewksbury and Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Nashua police intervened when Billerica, Massachusetts police alerted them that one of the allegedly fraudulent checks had been cashed in Nashua, police said at the time.

Several months later, Nashua police got a call from Worcester, Massachusetts officials, telling them that they had arrested Bloomfield on Nashua’s warrant.

Police retrieved Bloomfield and returned him to Nashua for arraignment on one count of theft by deception, a Class A felony.

Dean Shalhoup can be reached at 594-1256, dshalhoup@nashua

telegraph.com or @Telegraph_DeanS.

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