Convicted Knife-Wielding Robber, Not Seen Since February, Wanted For Parole Violation: NH Corrections

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections is asking for the public’s help in finding a felon with a long criminal history who has not been seen in about 10 months.

John Michael Mills is 51, white, around 5 feet, 11 inches tall, and weighs around 230 pounds. He has blue eyes and brown hair. Mills has several tattoos, including “AR15” on his left forearm, the words “MILLZ,” “EILEENA,” and a spider on his right forearm, a heart with a cross on his right shoulder, and “JOHN THE THIRD” on his left shoulder. A dollar sign is tattooed on his neck.

Mills was convicted of a robbery with a weapon charge and released on parole. However, he was accused of failing to report to parole in February. His current whereabouts are unknown. A warrant for his arrest was issued in August.

Mills should be considered “armed and dangerous” with “violent tendencies” due to his previous convictions, which also include simple assault, domestic violence, reckless conduct, stalking, resisting arrest, and use of a stun gun-tear gas. He has also been convicted of forgery, theft, and drug possession. Mills was last known to be living in Rochester, but also lived in Manchester previously, according to an alert.

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Mills’ criminal history dates back nearly three decades.

Mills was accused of criminal threatening and criminal restraint in July 1996 in Dover. After being charged in 1999, the charges were dismissed.

In 2007, Mills was charged with three counts of reckless conduct after incidents in Dover. He pleaded guilty to two of the charges in September 2007 and received two 12-month sentences, one deferred for six months and the other deferred for a year.

Mills was accused of forgery in Hampton and Somersworth in August 2009.

In August 2010, Mills was accused of violating a court order on the reckless conduct charges entered into a restitution project in November 2011 on one of the charges.

In March 2011, Mills pleaded guilty to the forgery charges and received a nine-month jail sentence with 39 days of time served credit, two years probation, and one year probation on the second sentence. Two months later, the sentence was amended. Ten days later, Mills was accused of violating probation. In June 2011, Mills was ordered to pay $352 in restitution to Citizens Bank. In June 2013, he was found in violation of probation or parole.

State police arrested Mills in July 2014 on a habitual offender charge. He pleaded guilty in January 2015 and was sentenced to 12 months and a $620 fine. In March 2015, the sentence was amended with 20 days of added time served credit.

Mills was accused of criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon in Dover and receiving stolen property-two prior convictions in Rochester in 2016. In 2017, he was charged with theft in Dover and robbery, robbery with a weapon or serious bodily injury, and a penalty for an offense committed while on bail in Somersworth. Mills pleaded guilty to three of the charges in January 2018: He received one-to-three-years with 132 days of time served credit and $20 restitution on the stolen property charge, one-to-three-years with 132 days of time served credit and $17.98 restitution on the theft charge, one-to-three-years with 132 days of time served credit and $18.98 restitution on robbery-weapon charge, and three-and-a-half-to-seven-years in prison, all suspended for two years, on the bail charge. The threat and robbery charges were nolle prossed.

In June 2019, Mills was accused of being a habitual offender in Portsmouth and Rochester.

In March 2020, the Strafford County Attorney’s Office made a motion to impose a suspended sentence on the bail charge. In June 2021, the sentence was amended to two-and-a-half to seven years in prison on the bail charge, with 130 days time served credit. A month later, the sentence was amended again.

Also in June 2021, Mills pleaded guilty to the Rochester habitual offender charge and received a two-to-five-year sentence suspended for three years. The sentence was amended a month later.

In October 2021, he pleaded guilty to the Portsmouth habitual offender charge and received a two-and-a-half-to-five-year sentence, all suspended, for three years.

In May 2022, Mills made a motion to suspend the bail sentence, which was denied by a judge in June 2022.

If you know where Mills is or see someone who looks like him, call local police or the corrections department at 603-271-1804.

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