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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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As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran overtakes the foreign policy debate in Washington, two Democratic governors with potential 2028 presidential aspirations — Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear — recently traveled to New Hampshire, introducing themselves to the state’s famously engaged voters. The two weighed in on the war and both criticized and questioned President Trump’s strategy and endgame.
“If a president is going to take a country into war, and risk the lives of American troops and Americans in the region, he has to have a real justification and not one that seems to change every five to 10 hours,” Beshear told CBS News after a Democratic fundraiser in Keene.
“This President seems to use force before ever trying diplomacy, and he has a duty to sell it to the American people and to address Congress with it,” Beshear continued. “He hasn’t done any of that. In fact, it appears there isn’t even a plan for what success looks like. He’s gone from regime change to strategic objectives and now is talking about unconditional surrender, which isn’t realistic where he is.”
Beshear also said he thought that Congress should have reined in Mr. Trump’s war powers.
“He is trying to ignore Congress. He’s trying to even ignore the American people,” Beshear said.
He went on to note that the president’s State of the Union address took place “three — four days before he launched this attack,” and Mr. Trump “didn’t even have the respect to tell the American people the threat that he thought Iran posed to us.”
Last week, both the House and the Senate failed to pass resolutions to limit Mr. Trump’s war powers and stop him from taking further military action against Iran without congressional support.
For Newsom, the war with Iran constitutes part of a broader criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At an event last Tuesday in Los Angeles, Newsom had compared Israel to an “apartheid state.” Later, in New Hampshire, he sought to clarify his comment.
“I was specifically referring to a Tom Friedman [New York Times] column last week, where Tom used that word of apartheid as it relates to the direction Bibi is going, particularly on the annexation of the West Bank,” Newsom explained during a book tour event Thursday night in Portsmouth. “I’m very angry, with what he is doing and why he’s doing it, what he’s going to ultimately try to do to the Supreme Court there, what he’s trying to do to save his own political career.”
Friedman wrote that at the same time that the U.S. and Israel are prosecuting a war in Iran, within Israel, Netanyahu’s government has undertaken efforts to annex the West Bank, driving Palestinians from their homes; fire the attorney general who is leading the prosecution against Netanyahu for corruption; and block the government’s attempt to establish a commission to examine the failures that led up to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Jews by Hamas.
CBS News has reached out to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., for comment.
On Iran, Newsom said, “I’m very angry about this war, with all due respect, you know, not because I’m angry the supreme leader is dead. Quite the contrary. I’m not naive about the last 37 years of his reign. Forty-seven years since ’79 — the revolution,” Newsom said. “But I’m also mindful that you have a president who still is inarticulate and incapable of giving us the rationale of why? Why now? What’s the endgame?”
Many attendees at Newsom’s book event said that the situation in Iran is a top-of-mind issue for them, too. Some said they’re “horrified” by what is happening.
29-year-old Alicia Marr told CBS News she decided to attend Newsom’s event because of his social media response to the war with Iran.
“There was one spot left, and I decided to pick it up, and it was due to his response to the war, that it is just unacceptable, and I would agree with that,” Marr said.
While some voters like Marr are eager to hear about where potential candidates stand on foreign policy, many at Newsom’s event said they care most about how potential candidates plan to address domestic issues.
“I’m more focused on getting the middle class back on track and fighting the oligarchy, and I’m less invested in international issues,” said Anita Alden, who also attended Newsom’s event,
“I wouldn’t call myself America first, but we have so many problems at home that are my priority,” she told CBS News.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who may also be weighing another White House bid, told Fox 2 Detroit last week that she “unequivocally opposes” the Trump administration’s military action in Iran and urged Congress to take action.
“If we want to stop Donald Trump with this random decision that he has arrived at, then Congress must act, and Congress must act immediately. The American people do not want our sons and daughters to go into this unauthorized war of choice,” Harris said.
Mr. Trump has lashed out against Democrats who have pushed back on his Iran strategy, calling them “losers” last week and arguing that they would criticize any decision he made on Iran.
“If I did it, it’s no good. If I didn’t do it, they would have said the opposite, that you should have done this,” the president said.
Local News
A Massachusetts man was arrested late Wednesday night after police say he was driving more than 100 mph on a New Hampshire roadway.
Officers with the Rindge Police Department stopped a vehicle shortly after 11 p.m. on Route 202 near Sears Drive in Rindge following a report of a car traveling at excessive speed, according to a statement from Chief Rachel Malynowski.
The vehicle, a 2020 Kia Stinger, was spotted traveling at 104 mph in a posted 55 mph zone, Malynowski said.
The driver, a 21-year-old man from Attleboro, was arrested and charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle, according to police.
He is scheduled to be arraigned April 5. If convicted, the man faces a fine of at least $750, in addition to the court’s penalty assessment, and a 90-day license suspension, Malynowski said.
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