Robert Ayles, 37, most recent address 24 Chadwick Circle, Nashua

NASHUA – Robert Ayles, the Nashua man accused in February of leading police from four communities on a pursuit that included the allegedly purposeful ramming of two Hudson cruisers, will remain in jail for the time being, according to a judge’s ruling.

Ayles, 37, accompanied by his attorneys, Justin Shepherd and Paul Borchardt, appeared before Judge Charles Temple Thursday for a bail hearing on that case and three others he accumulated during the past year and a half.

Although Temple denied the bail request, he acknowledged that Ayles should be able to access treatment for his substance use disorder.

“There’s no doubt Mr. Ayles needs treatment,” Temple said in recommending the county corrections department’s Substance Abuse Treatment Community for Offenders (SATCO) program – providing the department accepts Ayles “on a pre-trial basis.”

If he is accepted and meaningfully participates, Temple said the court would reconsider Ayles’ bail status.

Ayles, whose most recent address is 24 Chadwick Circle in Nashua, is also facing drug-possession charges, mainly stemming from his November 2018 arrest as part of a Nashua police drug sweep conducted under the Granite Shield initiative.

Police said at the time of the February pursuit there was an “active, extraditable Class A felony warrant” out for Ayles’ arrest, which was issued about 10 days earlier when he allegedly failed to appear in court on drug possession and operating after suspension offenses.

The pursuit began in Nashua, according to reports at the time, and entered Hudson shortly after 7 p.m. Feb. 13.

When the vehicle, a 2012 Camry, came into view, two Hudson units picked up the pursuit, police said. When they reached Musquash Road, the officers initiated a motor vehicle stop at the intersection of Copper Hill Road.

But as officers approached the driver, later identified as Ayles, he allegedly “purposely crashed his vehicle” into both cruisers, then took off headed north on Musquash Road.

Ayles allegedly led police on a circuitous route, traveling up Wason Road, back toward the Sagamore Bridge, then heading south onto Pine and Gowing roads.

At that point, police deployed spike strips that slowed the vehicle, but it kept traveling into Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, and then into Lowell.

It all came to an end on Pawtucket Boulevard in Lowell, when Ayles’ vehicle crashed into two cars.

He was arrested, then booked on the Massachusetts charges before being returned to Nashua to face the alleged offenses committed in New Hampshire.

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

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