Fugitive, With Violent Tendencies, Wanted By New Hampshire Department Of Corrections

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.

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.

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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