Murder in Meredith

[SAMIAM]

Still wondering why no details have emerged about the most horrific crime to take place in this town in many years.
Usually, after a serious crime is committed, the public is informed after a brief investigation. Nothing from law enforcement or the media.
Be nice to know if there are some maniacs on the loose.

[old coot]

Still wondering why no details have emerged about the most horrific crime to take place in this town in many years.
Usually, after a serious crime is committed, the public is informed after a brief investigation. Nothing from law enforcement or the media.
Be nice to know if there are some maniacs on the loose.
Based on our hometown murder here in Wolfeboro, SAMIAM, sooner or later you'll get used to being kept in the dark.
oc

[wifi]

Based on our hometown murder here in Wolfeboro, SAMIAM, sooner or later you'll get used to being kept in the dark.
oc

About to make the same comment. The government (and its agencies) are above the 'common' public, these days :(

[RI Swamp Yankee]

Headline:

AG: Stabbed NH man had forced way into home

Link to AP story below (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NH_MEREDITH_DEATH_NHOL-?SITE=NHCOD&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-06-16-10-36-26)

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Authorities say a New Hampshire man who was stabbed to death earlier this month in a Meredith home was killed after apparently forcing his way in while wearing a mask and carrying a baseball bat.

The attorney general's office described the incident as an apparent home invasion.

Officials say 18-year-old resident David Rivera was awakened June 6 by 47-year-old Robert Hart Jr. of Meredith. The two started to struggle as 26-year-old Michael Noucas entered the bedroom. Noucas was also wearing a mask and carrying a knife.

Officials say Rivera eventually got the knife from Noucas. Hart was stabbed repeatedly and later died. Noucas was also stabbed, fled and was taken in a friend's car to police. He was hospitalized. Rivera called 911.

The investigation is continuing.

[VtSteve]

A most disturbing crime of fear. Glad to see the result was just and proper.

[hilltopper]

A most disturbing crime of fear. Glad to see the result was just and proper.

It seems as though I heard/read the masked men were robbing a drug dealer (who I'd assume is Rivera). The just and proper result will have all this trash behind bars.

[VtSteve]

It seems as though I heard/read the masked men were robbing a drug dealer (who I'd assume is Rivera). The just and proper result will have all this trash behind bars.

I agree, didn't see that part.

[twoplustwo]

Homicide probe leads to arrest
Meredith:

By BEA LEWIS
bwheel@metrocast.net


Thursday, June 17, 2010
Authorities Wednesday released some details of their investigation into a homicide, disclosing the incident was triggered by two people breaking into an apartment with the intent of committing a robbery.

According to police, a masked man carrying a baseball bat broke into the apartment at 16 Lake St. on June 6. The intruder awakened one of the occupants, David Rivera, 18, formerly of Massachusetts. As Rivera began to struggle with a man police later identified as Robert A. Hart Jr., 46, of Laconia, a second masked man, identified as Michael Carpenter-Noucas, 26, also formerly of Laconia, appeared in the bedroom., according to authorities.

Carpenter-Noucas, identified in a media release from the state Attorney General's office as simply Michael Noucas, joined the struggle between Hart and Rivera. Rivera ultimately managed to get the knife away from Carpenter-Noucas and turned it on the two alleged intruders, police said.

Hart was stabbed repeatedly and collapsed in the second floor bedroom where he was later found dead. Carpenter-Noucas, who was also stabbed in the struggle, fled the building and went outside where he was taken in a friend's car to the lobby of the Meredith Police Department. Rivera ran from the apartment as well and went to a nearby pay phone and called 9-1-1 for help.

Carpenter-Noucas was initially treated at Lakes Region General Hospital before being airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon for treatment. Rivera suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at the emergency room and released following the incident.

Meredith police said Wednesday they arrested Carpenter-Noucas and charged him with burglary with intent to commit robbery. He was held overnight at the Belknap County Jail on $100,000 cash bail pending an arraignment set for this morning in Laconia District Court.

Police say the incident remains under investigation and further arrests are expected. Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact Meredith police at 603-279-4561.

Both of the alleged home invaders have a criminal history.

According to records in Laconia District Court, Michael R. Noucas, 26, formerly of 429 Mile Hill Road, Laconia was charged in 2002 with misdemeanor simple assault criminal threatening. Prosecutors chose not to proceed with the assault charge, but Noucas pleaded guilty to the threatening charge and was given a six-month suspended sentence and fined $550, with $250 suspended.

Records in Belknap County Superior Court shows that Hart, who was then living at 8 School St. in Alton, was indicted for robbing the Lake Side Deli on Route 3 in Tilton on Oct. 20, 1999, and threatening the clerk. Hart was convicted and sentenced to six to 12 years in prison, but the sentence was ordered deferred for one year.

When Hart violated the terms of his probation he was ordered imprisoned for six to 12 years and served eight years in a Florida penitentiary before being paroled in 2008.

While in prison Hart filed several petitions seeking to reduce his sentence. Judge Harold Perkins cited Hart's poor disciplinary record while incarcerated, included testing positive for opiates on several occasions, as one of the reasons for denying Hart's request on July 25, 2001.

Hart later filed a writ of Habeas Corpus with the New Hampshire Supreme Court seeking his release. The writ was dismissed without prejudice to the petitioner's ability to seek relief in the Superior Court on Nov. 29, 2001.

On May 13, 2008, Judge Larry Smukler denied Hart's request for a motion to suspended sentence. Hart was released the following month.

[Gearhead]

It seems as though I heard/read the masked men were robbing a drug dealer

further arrests are expected

Mom and dad must be sooo proud.

[martbri7]

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/story/rivera-takes-stand-doesnt-remember-anything


http://www.citizen.com/news/laconia_region/laconia/article_c153a8ee-efd1-11e0-91fc-0019bb30f31a.html