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Hudson officer on leave

By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Writer | Apr 6, 2020

HUDSON – Zachary Nardini, a 24-year-old Hudson police officer with roughly nine months on the job, is on paid administrative leave following his arrest early Saturday morning on one count of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

State police troopers arrested Nardini, a Windham resident, following a single-vehicle crash on Old Landfill Road that left his passenger with injuries that police described as serious, but not life-threatening.

Police said Nardini was driving a 2013 Chevrolet 1500 pickup truck along Old Landfill Road just before 2 a.m. “when he lost control of the vehicle, (which) exited the right side of the road” and crashed into a utility pole.

The passenger, Chantal Gora, 23, of Hudson, was treated by Hudson ambulance personnel then transported to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, police said.

Nardini was apparently unhurt in the crash. Police said medical personnel evaluated him at the scene, but he refused transport to the hospital.

Nardini was later booked on the charge of aggravated DWI. Although state police didn’t specify, the charge is typically a Class A misdemeanor in New Hampshire.

He is scheduled for arraignment at 1 p.m. May 7 in Hillsborough County Superior Court South in Nashua.

Nardini joined the police department in July, when he and five other new officers were sworn in, Chief Bill Avery said.

Although Nardini’s arrest is a personnel matter on which Avery said he can’t elaborate, he did say that Nardini has been placed on paid administrative leave and that the matter “is being dealt with.”

Avery said Nardini’s alleged behavior “is not typical for a Hudson police officer. A mistake was made, and I’m going to deal with it. I don’t condone this type of (alleged) behavior,” he said.

Avery also said that once it was determined that the crash involved a member of the department, “the decision was made to contact state police and ask for their assistance, in the interest of full transparency.”

State police said in a statement that the troopers who responded to the call for assistance came from the department’s Troop B barracks in Bedford.

Troopers “determined that the contributing factor to the crash was Nardini’s (alleged) impairment,” according to their statement.

They ask that anyone with any additional information on the incident contact Trooper Kyle Foster at Kyle.Foster@dos.nh.gov, or 223-3785.

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

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