CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections is asking for the public’s help finding a felon fugitive with a lengthy criminal history who has absconded from probation supervision again.
Adam James Smart is white, 40, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and weighs around 200 pounds. He has green eyes and brown hair. Smart has several tattoos — including a steer skull in a dream catcher on his back, a black figure character on his right-left arm, and a skull with a feather headdress on his left upper arm shoulder.
Investigators with the corrections department put a cautionary warning on Smart’s fugitive status due to “violent tendencies” because of prior violence. Previous charges include theft, delivery of articles, burglary, receiving stolen property, driving after revocation, indecent exposure-lewdness, fraud, controlled drugs, reckless conduct, disobeying an officer, and simple assault.
“His current whereabouts are unknown,” officials said.
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One warrant was issued out of Rockingham County, while Smart also faces two other bench warrants
Smart was featured as a fugitive of the week by the U.S. Marshals Service in May 2018. He was arrested at gunpoint in Concord a few months later.
Smart’s felony criminal history dates back at least 14 years when he was accused of receiving stolen property in Manchester and burglary and theft in Londonderry. He pleaded guilty to the Londonderry charges in May 2011. Smart received a suspended seven-and-a-half-year sentence, with 210 days of time served and $2,575 in fines.
Smart’s criminal activities continued in August 2010, when he embarked on a spree of burglaries, accused of targeting locations in Derry, Hooksett, Londonderry, Nashua, New Hampton, and Sanbornton, and being charged with burglary and theft. He was convicted on multiple charges in 2010 and 2011. He was also convicted of fraudulent use of a credit card out of Plymouth and faced several violations of probation charges after the convictions.
In March 2012, Smart was accused of burglary in Merrimack; two receiving stolen property charges in Chichester; robbery, armed robbery, and kidnapping-liability in Concord; and two receiving stolen property charges in Derry. Smart pleaded guilty to the Merrimack burglary charge in December 2012. In March 2013, he pleaded guilty to one of the Chichester stolen property charges. Just before the robbery charges were set to go to trial in May 2013, they were nolle prossed. And, in June 2013, he pleaded guilty to the Derry charges.
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In December 2023, a warrant was issued for his arrest on a violation of probation charge. Mail was also sent to a Concord address, on West Portsmouth Street, which was returned to the court and sent to a post office box later, which was listed on a return label, according to a court filing.
Smart was indicted in January 2013 on theft and burglary charges out of Auburn from July 2010. He pleaded guilty to the charges five months later.
While incarcerated in February 2013, Smart was accused of conspiracy-delivery of articles to prisoners. He pleaded guilty to the charge in May 2014.
In March 2018, Smart was accused of drug possession in Salem and pleaded to a misdemeanor controlled premise where drugs are kept charge, receiving a 12-month suspended sentence and a $434 fine.
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WILTON, N.H. (WHDH) – A woman died in a Wilton, New Hampshire, house fire Wednesday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office.
At 9:08 a.m., Wilton firefighters responded to Burns Hill Road after a caller said their home was filling up with smoke. When they arrived, a single-family home was on fire and they found out two people were still inside on the second floor.
A man and a woman were both taken out of the house by firefighters and taken to Elliott Hospital. The woman was pronounced dead and the man is in serious condition.
Officials have not released the name of the victim at this time.
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At this time, investigators are looking into the cause of the fire and are trying to determine if a power outage in the area played a factor. The fire is not currently considered suspicious.
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Diane Durgin, 67, is accused of shooting at a Black man who inadvertently drove to her property after a prearranged truck part sale, prosecutors said.
A New Hampshire woman is accused of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act four times after she allegedly shot at a man because he was Black, prosecutors said.
Diane Durgin, 67, of Weare, N.H. could face up to a $5,000 fine for each violation she is found to have committed, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a press release Tuesday.
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Durgin is also charged with criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon and attempted first degree assault with a deadly weapon, Michael Garrity, a media representative for the New Hampshire Attorney General, said in an emailed statement to Boston.com.
Durgin had a final pre-trial conference last week, Garrity said.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, Durgin is accused of threatening physical force against the victim, the AG said. Prosecutors asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction barring Durgin from repeating her alleged behavior and from contacting the victim and his family.
During the morning hours of Oct. 20, 2024, the victim claims, he “mistakenly” drove to Durgin’s home after a prearranged purchase of a truck part with a seller online, prosecutors wrote as part of their request for an injunction.
When the man — whom prosecutors identified in court documents as X.G. — arrived, Durgin allegedly stepped out of her home and approached his car with a gun “holstered by her waist,” prosecutors wrote.
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Upon noticing that X.G. was Black, Durgin allegedly “removed her gun and pointed it at X.G.,” prosecutors said in the injunction request.
While X.G. explained that he was lost, Durgin called the victim a “Black mother[expletive],” and threatened to “kill him,” prosecutors allege.
As the victim attempted to drive away, Durgin allegedly took her gun and fired two shots at the fleeing man’s car, missing both times, the AG’s office said.
While on the phone with a dispatcher, Durgin allegedly said she shot the man’s car because the victim is Black, the AG said.
“The guy is Black. And he, he…he says he’s meeting someone here and I think he’s coming here to steal,” Durgin allegedly said.
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Police located X.G. and brought him to the Weare Police Department, stopping along the way at the correct seller’s home to complete the truck part purchase, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
To prove a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, the AG must show that Durgin “interfered or attempted to interfere with the rights of the victim to engage in lawful activities by threatening to engage in or actually engage in physical force or violence, when such actual or threatening conduct was motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability,” prosecutors said.
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