Update: Firearm Threat Inmate, Placed On Escape Status, After Fleeing Request To Take Breathalyzer Caught

Update: 3:14 p.m. on Nov. 7: Anfernee Jay King was arrested in Nashua after New Hampshire Department of Corrections investigators received a tip that led to an apartment in the Gate City.

"With support from department probation parole officers and the Nashua Police Department," the department said, "King was taken into custody without incident and transported back to the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord."

The original post is below:

CONCORD, NH — A minimum security inmate in Manchester was placed on escape status Wednesday night after being accused of refusing to take a breathalyzer, according to the New Hampshire Department of Corrections.

Anfernee Jay King, 27, returned to the Calumet House Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester around 8:15 p.m. When he arrived, a corrections officer suspected he was intoxicated and approached him. When he did, King was accused of fleeing the area, to evade the test. He was placed on escape status at 8:30 p.m. and has not been seen since.

King is 6 feet, 3 inches tall, about 225 pounds, and has blue eyes and brown hair. He has several tattoos, including a skull with roses on his left thigh, a timepiece with a scroll on his right thigh, and an image of a woman eating a banana on his left shin. King was last seen wearing glasses, a white hooded jacket with a red hooded sweatshirt underneath, gray sweatpants, and white and gray sneakers.

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King is an inmate due to a criminal threatening-conduct involving a firearm conviction with a minimum custody release date of March 2026. His maximum release date from custody is January 2037.

King’s criminal history dates back more than a decade, to April 2025, when he was arrested at 17 on a receiving stolen property charge in Manchester, involving a bike.

King was charged with criminal threatening, acts prohibited, falsifying physical evidence, and obstructing government administration in Manchester in December 2016. About seven months later, he pleaded guilty to the acts prohibited and administration charges and was sentenced to two to four years in prison and $868 in fines, suspended for three years, and 189 days in jail for time served. Less than a month later, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail for violation of probation or parole. In December 2017, King was sent to jail for 90 days for violating probation or parole again. In May 2018, he was sent to the state prison for men for violation of probation or parole for two to four years with 142 days of time served credit.

In April 2018, King was charged with criminal threatening and strangulation charges in Manchester, but the charges were nolle prossed in September 2018.

In April 2019, he was accused of conspiracy to deliver articles to prisoners and pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2020. King was sentenced to three-and-a-half to seven years in prison, suspended for five years, upon release. He was also fined $620, due 12 months after his release.

In January 2022, King was charged with strangulation, criminal threatening-deadly weapon, criminal restraint, acts prohibited, felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, and domestic violence after an incident in Manchester. Seven months later, he pleaded guilty to strangulation, restraint, weapon possession, and threat charges. King was sent to the men’s prison again for five to 15 years with 189 days of time served credit, as well as two three-to-seven-year sentences and a two-to-five-year sentence, all suspended for a decade.

King was given work release on Aug. 11.

If you see King or know where he is, contact Chief Investigator Jason Darrah of the NHDOC Investigations Bureau at 603-848-2569 or call local police.

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