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A detailed review of police logs in the small town of Whitefield from May through December chronicle public complaints and police action involving 45-year-old Mark R. Clermont, the man who allegedly shot and critically wounded New Hampshire State Trooper Matthew Merrill on Dec. 23.
The woman found dead in a Bodwell Road apartment last week along with her two-year-old son had been reported to the Division for Children Youth and Families for alleged child abuse, according to documents obtained by InDepthNH.org.
New Hampshire’s Executive Council approved a contract to allow troubled Vermont youths to reside at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, got an update on drug deaths during COVID-19 and the number of vaccines expected, discussed the virus outbreak at the Veterans Home, and approved funding to advance work on the Exit 4A project on Interstate 93 in Londonderry and Derry.
The state Department of Corrections is testing more state prison inmates since the numbers have been dramatically increasing over the last three weeks and now stand at 193 inmates and 25 staffers testing positive for COVID-19.
The lawsuit alleges that Phillip Borcuk, 34, of Cornish, died after corrections staff in the Residential Treatment Unit tased him multiple times, hit and pushed him to the floor of his cell and restrained him with his hands tied behind his back.
In less than three weeks, the number of state prison inmates with active cases of COVID-19 has skyrocketed from six to 152, with 31 of those in the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin, according to the state Department of Corrections’ website.
Police responded to Tall Pines Condos on Bodwell Road.
An autopsy will be performed later today by the New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner’s Office. Identification of the deceased individual is being withheld until his next of kin can be notified.
These violations affected more than 115,000 consumers nationwide including 327 New Hampshire consumers. The settlement order includes redress of $565,914 for 327 New Hampshire consumers and administrative penalties to be distributed among participating states and jurisdictions.
The number of COVID-19 positive inmates at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord has doubled in a week and stands at 12 who are currently infected, with most of them housed in the psychiatric units.
