NASHUA

Suspect sought in Walgreens robbery

Police are looking for assistance in identifying and locating a man who allegedly robbed a local pharmacy of Oxycontin pills Tuesday afternoon.

The suspect, described as mid-30s, 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall, with short hair, reportedly entered Walgreens at 283 Main St. around 5:20 p.m., went to the pharmacy and demanded Oxycontin pills while threatening the pharmacist, police said.

No weapon was shown, police said. The suspect was given an undisclosed amount of Oxycontin pills, then fled out the front door.

He was reportedly wearing an olive green hooded sweatshirt and jeans at the time, police said.

Police ask that anyone with information about the suspect contact the department at 594-3500 or call the department’s Crime Line at 589-1665.

– DEAN SHALHOUP

City man charged with molesting 5-year-old

A nearly yearlong investigation into reports that a 5-year-old had been sexually assaulted by a man known to the child culminated Tuesday in the arrest of Nashua resident Nicholas Beaudette, police said.

Beaudette, 23, of 171 W. Hollis St., Apt. C, was arrested on a warrant shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday, according to police. He faces two counts of felonious sexual assault, both Class B felonies.

He was held on $50,000 cash or surety bail and was arraigned Wednesday in Nashua district court.

Police said Special Investigations Division detectives launched an investigation on Sept. 8 after receiving a report of a possible sexual assault involving a 5-year-old.

Detectives developed information that led to Beaudette as the suspect, and it was determined that he is known to the alleged victim. They applied for, and were granted, the warrant for Beaudette’s arrest on Tuesday and took him into custody the same day.

– DEAN SHALHOUP

Police investigating threat with firearm

Police are investigating a reported criminal threatening with a firearm from Wednesday morning.

Officers with the Nashua Police Department say that shortly before 11 a.m. Aug. 3 there were two males, each operating a vehicle, on Canal Street near BAE Systems who made their way onto Amory Street.

The vehicles were described as a black Volkswagen Passat and a green Jeep Cherokee. The confrontation ultimately ended at the intersection of Main Street at East Pearl Street when police say one of the individuals reported the other subject pointed a firearm toward him and threatened him.

Anyone with information related to this investigation to this case is asked to contact the Nashua Police Department at 594-3500 or the Crime Line at 589-1665.

– Telegraph staff

BEDFORD

Drivers injured in 5-vehicle crash

Police in Bedford are investigating a five-vehicle crash that injured four people and closed Route 101 during the morning commute.

Police Chief John Bryfonski said a preliminary investigation indicates that a Jeep was traveling east on Route 101 at about 7:45 a.m. Thursday when it crossed the double-yellow line and grazed a parcel truck before striking three other vehicles in the westbound lane.

The driver of the parcel truck was not injured, but the drivers of the four other vehicles were, one seriously, and taken to the hospital.

– The Associated Press

MANCHESTER

Merrimack suspect charged in bat attack

The Merrimack man wanted in connection with last week’s baseball bat assaults in Manchester has turned himself in, police said.

Robert Russell, 30, of 10 Canterbury Way in Merrimack, was arrested at police headquarters Tuesday night and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Manchester district court.

Police charged him with three counts of first-degree assault, Class A felonies, for allegedly striking a 16-year-old boy and a man and woman, both 41, as they sat on the porch of their West Hancock Street home early the morning of July 29.

Police said the attacker, later identified as Russell, was wearing a mask and carrying a baseball bat when he approached the victims and allegedly began hitting the man in the head and face.

He allegedly turned the bat on the woman when she attempted to intervene, police said.

The teenager was eventually able to get the bat away from Russell, but not before he was also struck several times, police said.

The boy was treated at a local hospital for injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, while the adults declined medical treatment, police said.

– DEAN SHALHOUP

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