Concord Felon Faces Robbery Charges After Bow Carjacking

CONCORD, NH — A Concord felon was arrested and held without bail Thursday after carjacking a vehicle in Bow and being accused of a robbery in Concord before getting arrested in the city's West End neighborhood.

At just after 2:30 p.m., police in Bow were sent to the Hampton Inn on South Street for a report of a carjacking.

"The victim reported that he was eating lunch inside his vehicle when a male, who was unknown to the victim, opened the driver's side door," Sgt. Matthew Pratte of the Bow Police Department said. "The suspect pulled the victim out of the vehicle by his neck and then drove away in the stolen vehicle. Bow police were able to track the stolen vehicle utilizing the victim's iPhone which was still inside the vehicle."

The victim's iPhone showed the car, a black Mazda with Utah plates, had stopped near Grappone Park in Concord. That information was relayed to Concord police.

"While Bow and Concord officers were responding to the location of the iPhone, the Concord Police Department received a report of an additional robbery that had just occurred near the area of the victim's stolen iPhone," Pratte said. "The description of the Concord robbery suspect matched the description of the male wanted in the Bow carjacking."

Concord police were sent to Tremont Street where the second robbery took place while Bow police went to the Mazda which was found in the parking lot of Gary Dillon Field.

A short time later, Dennis Hayes, 37, of Concord was found on Ridge Road and arrested on robbery charges. The Mazda and iPhone were returned to the owner, Pratte said. Hayes is due to be arraigned in Merrimack County Superior Court Aug. 3.

Hayes is a felon due to prior criminal incidents including three felony acts prohibited; controlled drug act charges in June and July 2007 out of Concord that led to guilty pleas in April 2010. He was accused of eight controlled drug-acts prohibited charges, including drug dealing allegations, in May 2015 and pled guilty to four of them in November 2016. That case was reopened in November 2017 for restitution charges but closed a few months later. He also faced an acts prohibited charge out of Concord in June 2008 and first-degree assault, breach of bail, and two armed robbery charges in Concord in November 2008 that were later nolle prossed.

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