File photo Shivam Yadav, 28, of no fixed address, Nashua

NASHUA РShivam Yadav, a 28-year-old Nashua man with no fixed address, has been ordered held on preventive detention following his arrest last week on a series of felony and misdemeanor charges ̱ just under two years after he received deferred prison sentences on burglary-related offenses.

Yadav, whose arrest record goes back at least a decade, is facing a total of nine new charges, stemming from allegations he stole packages from neighbors back in November; then allegedly stole two cars, crashed one of them, refused to return another to its owner, and tried to flee police, all within four days this month.

Yadav was arraigned Thursday in Hillsborough County Superior Court South, where he entered not guilty pleas to the charges. At a subsequent bail hearing, Judge Jacalyn Colburn ordered preventive detention after finding probable cause.

One of the felony charges, receiving stolen property ñ two prior convictions, accuses him of stealing two packages, one containing women’s boots and the other various infants clothing, on Nov. 26 from neighbors who lived in an apartment in the same building where Yadav was staying with a relative, according to police reports.

The alleged victims showed officers a video captured by their RING doorbell, which depicted a man they later identified as Yadav allegedly stealing packages.

One of the officers had just seen a man fitting that description entering another apartment, and when they knocked on the door a man, whom they identified as a relative of Yadav’s, told them Yadav had been staying there ñ at that he’d allegely just jumped out of a rear window.

Police searched the area, didn’t locate the suspect, but they did locate a wallet in the parking lot, which, police said, contained Yadav’s drivers license.

Then on April 12, Manchester police contacted Nashua about a crash involving a car that they believed was stolen from a driveway in Nashua. The owner told police she wasn’t aware it was stolen, but said she had several debit and credit cards in a purse in the car.

Nashua police reviewed security video Manchester police had, showing three men allegedly using the cards in Manchester, one of whom Nashua police recognized as Yadav, police said.

Then on April 18, a woman who told police she loaned her vehicle to Yadav accused him of refusing to give it back to her, and when she confronted him he allegedly took off. She followed, and told police Yadav struck the car she was driving, hit a pylon on East Hollis Street then allegedly fled on foot.

Four days later, a Crown Hill resident reported to police his car was stolen from his driveway, and that he’d located it at 300 Main St. In cell phone video the man captured, police recognized the suspect driving the car as Yadav, and put out a bulletin for his arrest.

When an officer located Yadav and confronted him, he allegedly tried to flee, but the officer promptly captured him and took him into custody, police said.

Back in May 2018, meanwhile, Yadav entered guilty pleas to three counts of burglary and two counts of accessory to burglary as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

He was sentenced to two, 2 1/2 Р5 year prison sentences, all deferred for two years ̱ a time frame that would have expired in just over a month.

While Yadav avoided time in prison, he was ordered to pay restitution to the owners of the businesses he was charged with burgularizing.

Those amounts included $2,558 to SkyVenture; $638 to Zheng Garden in Hudson; $1,875 to Lilac Blossom restaurant in Nashua; $3,512 to Bonzai II, a restaurant in Milford; and $1,394 to Joeyís Diner in Amherst, according to the agreement.

The status of the restitution order wasn’t immediately available.

Yadav apologized to the owners present in the courtroom at the hearing.

ìI want to apologize to the owners Ã- Iím sorry,î he said, glancing toward his parents, who sat quietly in the second row behind the defense table.

The date of Yadav’s next hearing in the new case has yet to be scheduled.

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

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