Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP Erik Parker, who is currently serving time at State Prison in connection with a Belknap County case, enters Superior Court in Nashua Wednesday for a plea and sentencing hearing on charges incurred in Nashua.

NASHUA – Erik Parker, most recently of Franklin, entered a guilty plea to one count of “common nuisances,” meaning maintaining, or frequenting, a location known to involve illegal drug activity, in Superior Court Wednesday as part of a plea agreement to settle a case from July 2018.

Parker, 48, who is currently serving State Prison time in connection with a sentence he received in a Belknap County case, entered the guilty plea to the felony charge in exchange for prosecutors agreeing to drop the other three Nashua-based charges, which include one count each of possession of drugs, transporting illegal drugs in a motor vehicle and operating after license revocation or suspension.

Parker was charged with those offenses when a State Police trooper pulled over the car he was driving on the Everett Turnpike in Nashua on July 15, 2018.

On the common nuisances charge to which he pleaded guilty, Parker received a sentence of two and a half to five years in prison, all suspended for four years, beginning when he is released after serving his current sentence.

He also agrees to serve one year of probation starting with his release, during which he must enter, and successfully complete, a substance use disorder treatment program, according to the terms.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256, or at dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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