New Hampshire
Winchester town clerk pleads guilty to filling out fake marriage license involving deceased ‘groom’
A town clerk will pay fines and be stripped of his justice of the peace accreditions, but avoid jail time, after he signed a marriage license for a wedding he didn’t perform, involving a groom who was dead.
Jim Tetreault pleaded guilty in Keene District Court on Thursday to a misdemeanor count of notarial misconduct. He was given a suspended sentence of 90 days in jail, assessed a $1,240 fine, and resigned his justice of the peace and bail commissioner positions.
According to prosecutors, Tetreault signed a marriage license for Wendy Leedberg-Snow and Eric Leedberg. Tetreault originally told investigators that he performed the ceremony in his living room in September 2023. Tetreault would later admit, however, that he didn’t perform the ceremony, and that he was asked by Leedberg-Snow to sign the document some time after Eric Leedberg’s death.
He told authorities that he was friendly with Leedberg-Snow, who changed her legal name shortly before Eric Leedberg’s death. In his obituary, she is described as his “significant other.”
Leedberg’s family alerted authorities after they received his death certificate, which listed Leedberg-Snow as his spouse.
Leedberg-Snow has not yet been charged with any wrongdoing, but the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office confirmed she is under investigation. She previously declined to comment to NHPR.
Tetreault was back in his office as town clerk and tax collector in Winchester by midday Thursday. He declined to comment when reached by NHPR, but through his attorney, said that he “took responsibility for my poor choice in that one moment. I want to thank my family and friends and the townspeople for their support during this time.”
Tetreault was facing felony charges for vital records fraud, but accepted a plea deal on a misdemeanor count. Under the terms of the settlement, he agreed to not seek reappointment as a justice of the peace or notary for two years.
BOW, NH — Bow police and fire and rescue teams were sent to a crash on Sunday afternoon, not far from a previous crash earlier this month.
At 2:30 p.m., Concord Fire Alarm reported a crash involving multiple vehicles not far from the intersection of Page Road and Clinton Street. About 10 minutes later, a battalion commander told dispatch there were three vehicles involved and two patients were being evaluated. Dispatch asked if EMTs needed a retone for an engine, and the commander said, “Yeah, why don’t you send them.”
News 603 posted a video from the crash scene on Facebook, linked here.
Just before 3 p.m., EMTs cleared the scene after reporting the patients refused transport.
The crash site was not far from a crash on May 1 that sent one driver to Concord Hospital. In July 2024, a fatal motorcycle accident, which took the life of Joseph Kasper of Weare, occured not far from the location of Sunday’s crash.
Not long after, Concord Fire and Rescue teams were sent to a downed tree on Merrimack Street by School Street.
The tree was knocked down after a small storm moved through the region around 2:45 p.m.
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