New Hampshire
Woman, Formerly Of Concord, 2 Manchester Men Face Queen City Kidnapping, Assault Charges
MANCHESTER, NH — Three people are facing kidnapping, assault, and other charges after an incident in Downtown Manchester on Sunday morning.
Around 8:15 a.m., police were sent to the intersection of Union and Pearl streets for a report of a woman who was screaming and appeared to be injured. The woman, Heather Hamel, a public information officer for the department, said the woman had cuts and bruises on her face that were noticed by the first arriving officers.
“She reported that she had been assaulted, threatened, and held against her will inside a nearby apartment building,” she said. “She told police she was eventually able to escape, and she believed the people who held her were still inside.”
A SWAT team and a Medcat — a trauma and medical support vehicle were called in to assist. Officers made several announcements over a loudspeaker requesting the occupants to come out of the apartment. A man, Hamel said, looked out a first-floor window but initially refused to come out.
Around 10 a.m., Scott Frost, 23, and Ashley Zachary, 33, both of no set address in Manchester, exited the building, Hamel said. Officers then cleared the apartment, she said.
Frost was charged with kidnapping, criminal threatening, obstructing the report of a crime, simple assault, and resisting arrest or detention, while Zachary was charged with kidnapping, simple assault, and resisting.
During the course of the investigation, a third person, David Hanson, 42, of Manchester, was identified as having been inside the apartment at the time of the incident but had left before police arrived, Hamel said. He was arrested at a home on Manchester Street later in the day on kidnapping and simple assault charges.
Zachary is no stranger to police, having been arrested and convicted of crimes in the Lakes Region and Concord and the capital region for more than a decade.
She is a felon due to two felony criminal mischief convictions out of Campton in October 2012. After receiving a suspended sentence and being fined more than $15,000 in May 2013, her sentence was amended with one of the fines dropped. The case, though, was reopened in December 2013 after she violated probation after being charged with felony drug possession in Campton. She was sent to drug court and pleaded guilty to the charge in May 2014. Zachary received a four year suspended sentence for both the drug possession charge and probation violation.
In February 2019, when she was living in Concord, she was arrested for conduct after an accident crash. Seven months later, she was accused of trying to run over her boyfriend on Rumford Street and was arrested on felony domestic violence-reckless conduct, reckless operation, and two endangering the welfare of a child charges. She was indicted a few months later.
In Allenstown in June 2022, she was arrested on two felony counts of habitual offender, driving after revocation, disobeying an officer, and a suspension of vehicle registration violation. She pleaded guilty to the habitual offender and disobeying an officer charges two weeks ago and received a 12-month sentence suspended for two years.
In June 2023, she was charged with three felony possession of a controlled drug counts and a controlled drug: controlled premises where drugs were kept after three incidents in Manchester. One of the drug charges was dismissed without prejudice in January; two of the cases are still open. Zachary failed to appear at dispositional conference hearings on Feb. 15. She is due back in court on May 10 for show cause hearings.
Hanson, according to superior court records, was found not guilty by a jury on one of two felony counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault out of Rochester from January 2003. The second count was dismissed. In April 2019, he failed to appear at a show cause hearing for retention of exhibits in the case, court records stated.
In April 2015, Hanson was arrested on two felony aggravated driving under the influence with a collision and serious injury charges in Merrimack. He pleaded guilty to one, received a two year suspended sentence with 15 days time served, was fined $1,240, and lost his license for 18 months in January 2016.
Frost was charged with criminal threatening and criminal mischief in Manchester in July 2019, but both charges were nolle prossed. A year later, he was charged with felony falsifying physical evidence, resisting, and breach of bail in Manchester. The evidence charge was lowered to an obstructing government administration charge as part of a plea deal on a 12-month sentence suspended for three years in July 2022. In September 2023, he was found guilty of violating probation and received a 12-month suspended sentence. In March, he was accused of violating probation again, and the case is still active. Frost is due in court on May 6 for a hearing. In June 2021, he was charged with stalking and two drug possession charges, all felonies. One drug count was knocked down to a misdemeanor controlled premises charge as part of a plea deal in October 2022, along with the stalking charge. Frost was sentenced to two suspended sentences with 24 days time served as credit.
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The son of Cher is scheduled to be in court Wednesday for a hearing over allegations he broke into a New Hampshire home earlier this month.
It was the second arrest in a matter of days for Elijah Allman, 49, of Malibu, California, who was detained Feb. 27 after allegedly acting belligerently at a prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. It was unclear if Allman had any connection to either St. Paul’s School or the home in Windham, New Hampshire.
Allman remains in the Rockingham County Department of Corrections in what is called preventive detention, Superintendent Jonathan Banville said.
Allman, whose father was the late singer Gregg Allman, faces two counts of criminal mischief, one count of burglary and a count of breach of bail for breaking into the home on March 1. Police said in a report that Allman did not have permission to be at the home and forcibly entered it .
In the incident at the prep school, Allman was charged with four misdemeanors: two counts of simple assault, criminal trespass and criminal threatening. Allman was also charged with a violation of disorderly conduct, which is illegal in the state but not considered a crime.
At about 7 p.m. that day, Concord police responded to reports that Allman was disturbing people in the dining hall of St. Paul’s School. After charging Allman, police said he was released on bail as his case works through the court system.
Allman did not respond to an email requesting comment, and a phone number for him was not working. It was unclear from the court records if Allman has an attorney.
In December 2023, Cher filed a petition to become a temporary conservator overseeing her son’s money, saying Allman struggles with mental health issues and addiction have left him unable to manage his assets and potentially put his life in danger.
The petition from the singer and actress said Elijah Allman is entitled to regular payments from a trust fund. But “given his ongoing mental health and substance abuse issues,” she is “concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah’s life at risk,” the petition says.
A few weeks later, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jessica Uzcategui denied the request, saying she was not convinced that a conservatorship was urgently needed. Allman was in the courtroom with his his attorneys, who acknowledged his previous struggles but argued that he is in a good place now, attending meetings, getting treatment and reconciling with his previously estranged wife.
New Hampshire
Possible 2028 Democratic White House contenders weigh in on Iran with New Hampshire voters
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.
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