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Hudson police charge 3 in connection with OD death of Hudson man last summer

By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Reporter | Mar 9, 2021

From left: Nathan Dignan, 28, of Hudson; John Mills, 29, of Hampton; Jordan Lamprey, 23, of North Hampton

HUDSON – Police have filed charges against two men and a woman in their 20s for their alleged involvement in the drug-overdose death of Hudson resident David Dunn Jr., who was discovered deceased at a local residence in July 2020.

Charged with felony drug-related offenses are Nathan Dignan, 28, last known address of 4 Hazelwood Drive, Hudson, who was arrested Feb. 15; John Mills, 29, of Hampton, arrested March 3; and Jordan Lamprey, 23, of North Hampton, arrested March 5.

Hudson police Capt. David Cayot said Monday that the arrests were the result of “lengthy investigation” by members of the department’s Narcotics Unit, who were assisted at various stages of the investigation by the following law enforcement agencies: Nashua, Manchester, Derry, Seabrook, Hampton and North Hampton police departments; the Rockingham County sheriff’s department; the Hillsborough County Attorney’s office; the Manchester field offices of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and FBI Safe Streets Task Force; the Massachusetts state police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section; the Suffolk County sheriff’s office and the Essex County district attorney’s office.

Dignan, who Cayot said was arrested at his Hudson home, is charged with two counts of criminal solicitation, both of which are felonies.

He was booked and later released on $1,000 cash bail pending arraignment, which is scheduled for March 25 in Hillsborough County Superior Court South.

Mills, meanwhile, was arrested by Derry police officers in that town, with the assistance of DEA agents, Cayot said. He is charged with one count of sale of a controlled drug – death resulting, a special felony; and one count of falsifying physical evidence, a Class B felony.

Mills was ordered held on preventive detention pending his next court appearance, which is a dispositional conference scheduled for April 29.

As for Lamprey, she faces one count of sale of a controlled drug – death resulting, a special felony.

Cayot said members of the Massachusetts state police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Service tracked Lamprey to a hotel in Andover, Mass., where they took her into custody on a fugitive from justice warrant.

She was held in jail over the weekend pending Monday’s Superior Court appearance, at which the judge ordered her held on preventive detention. She is next scheduled to appear in court April 29 for a dispositional hearing.

Lamprey’s arrest, meanwhile, is her third in just two months, all of which involve allegations of illegal drug possession or sales, along with a misdemeanor count of breach of bail conditions.

The first of her trio of arrests took place in early January in Hampton, when she was charged with one count of sale of a controlled drug, heroin or crack cocaine, in a quantity of more than one gram and less than five grams; and one count of controlled drug: acts prohibited, both of which are special felonies.

Arrest number two came roughly three weeks ago, when Lamprey was picked up in Hampton Falls and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled drug and one count of breach of bail conditions.

Both of those cases are filed in Rockingham County Superior Court. According to the case summary for Lamprey’s first arrest, the judge in mid-February ordered her held on preventive detention, but agreed to a stipulation that Lamprey’s bail would be converted to personal recognizance upon her entry into a recovery center in Massachusetts and her compliance with “recommended aftercare.”

Whether Lamprey ever entered the recovery center isn’t known, but according to the case summaries her bail was revoked in both cases upon her third arrest last week.

Dunn, meanwhile, was 28 and had an address of 8 Linda St. in Hudson at the time of his death.

Hudson police ask that anyone with any additional information regarding the case contact the department’s Narcotics Investigations Unit at 886-6011, or leave an anonymous tip on its website or Facebook page, or call the department’s Crime Line at 594-1150.

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

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