New Felony Counts Issued Against Concord Man Facing Lewdness Charges

CONCORD, NH — A man from Concord, already facing lewdness charges from incidents last year, was in court last week on new charges after police accused him of possessing an illegal child sexual abuse image video, recording under the dress of a woman, and having videos from a bathroom of his home.

A Concord Police Department detective applied for a search warrant of two cellphones belonging to Jackson Roger Eastman, 20, of Eastern Avenue in Concord, on Feb. 2, which were logged in as evidence after he was arrested on charges in 2023. The detective suspected there might be child sexual abuse images or videos on the devices, according to an affidavit. Eastman has previously been arrested on indecent exposure and lewdness, gross lewdness, stalking, and disorderly conduct charges.

In late March, the detective reviewed one of the phones, a black Samsung cellphone, and found a 483-minute-long video file connected to a home security app. The detective wrote the video appeared to be of a toilet in a bathroom they recognized as from Jackson’s apartment, a report stated, due to a prior search warrant at the home. The detective analyzed and described some of the information in the video footage — including an email account associated with the device, which started with the words “bad things,” the report stated.

The report stated the second cellphone was analyzed and contained a recording of a Facebook Messenger chat with another user featuring a young girl and a dog. The video appeared to have been screen-recorded in late September 2023.

A second video, also from late September 2023, was taken at the Spirit Halloween store in Concord.

Eastman appeared to have placed the phone on the floor and recorded a woman in a dress waiting on customers at a register, an affidavit said. The woman was wearing shorts underneath the dress. The video ends moments after the woman dropped a coin on the floor, picked it up, noticed the phone, and called out to someone saying, “You left your phone on the ground to I picked it up and placed it there,” the report stated.

“Jackson proceeds to pick up the phone,” the detective wrote, “(and) the video then ends.”

The detective also said the videos were taken by a Quick Video Recorder app from Google Play.

On April 1, data from the home security system, requested after a search warrant was granted, found that the two cellphones were linked to the “bad things” email address.

The detective spoke to a manager with Spirit, who identified the woman in the video. The detective then interviewed the woman in the video who stated she never permitted Eastman to record her, the affidavit stated.

A request was made to Google to confirm ownership of the email address and found it was connected to Eastman, the report stated.

On April 15, the detective also spoke to a resident at Eastman’s home who stated they did not know someone was recording in their bathroom and did not permit anyone to record anyone, the affidavit said.

A warrant was issued on May 3 for Eastman’s arrest. He was picked up five days later.

After being arrested, the case was boundover from Concord District Court to Merrimack County Superior Court. A status conference hearing was held on June 6 and a dispositional conference is booked for July 31.

According to superior court records, Eastman’s active gross lewdness in the presence of a child under 16 — which also occurred at Spirit Halloween and two indecent exposure and lewdness charges from December 2023 will also be updated in July. He was indicted on the exposure charges earlier this year. Eastman was also arrested on stalking, disorderly conduct, and three incident exposure or gross lewdness charges in December 2023, after an incident at Target.

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