New Hampshire Fugitives Of The Week Taken Into Custody On Warrants After Interaction With Cops: Follow-Up

CONCORD, NH — Two recent New Hampshire Department of Corrections fugitives of the week are in custody after interactions with police last week.

Robert Richard Ferris III was featured last week. After his information was published, Dover police received a tip from the public about where he might be. Officers were sent to the residence and arrested Ferris without incident, according to the department.

Christopher Brayton Engelhardt, another fugitive, was featured on June 25. He was arrested in Concord on Sept. 10 after being issued a trespass order in a residential area of the city. During the police interaction with Engelhardt, it was revealed he had an active parole warrant and he was arrested.

“Subsequent to his arrest on the parole warrant,” an alert stated, “a search of Engelhardt located an unspecified amount of controlled substances. As a result, he was charged with possession of a controlled drug.”

Engelhardt is being held at the county jail and will be transported back to the New Hampshire State Prison for Men at a future date.

Editor's note: This post was derived from information supplied by the New Hampshire Department of Corrections and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the process for requesting the removal of a name from New Hampshire Patch police reports.

According to a superior court filing, Ferris was accused of acts prohibited, possession, and drug, cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine sale charges in October 2022 and March 2023 after incidents in Dover and Rochester. In August 2023, he pleaded guilty to two possession charges as well as the fentanyl and meth sale charges. Ferris received two two-to four-year sentences suspended for 10 years and three one-and-a-half-to-three-year sentences served consecutively with 164 days of time served credit and $3,100 in fines suspended for 10 years. He requested work release after four months. Following a state objection, as per a court filing, the request was denied in April 2024.

Engelhardt has a lengthy criminal history dating back to his teenage years in Concord.

Engelhardt was arrested in July 2012 on receiving stolen property and fraudulent use of a credit counts in Concord. In November 2012, he was arrested on conduct after and breach of bail in Concord.

Engelhardt was arrested on an organized retail crime enterprise charge in Concord in May 2014. He was charged in November of that year. Engelhardt was also charged with criminal threatening and reckless conduct in Concord in May 2015 after an incident in January of that year.

In September 2015, he pleaded guilty to the enterprise and conduct charges and received two years probation after being held in jail for 131 days, as well as two to five years in jail, suspended for five years, and two years probation.

Thirty-five days later, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was accused of violation of probation or parole in May 2016 on the enterprise charge, after being arrested on a robbery charge in Concord. Two months later, he was found in violation but released after being held for 54 days. The case was reopened again in January 2017 for another probation or parole violation. In April 2017, Engelhardt pleaded guilty to the second violation count and received a sentence of one and a half to five years, with 99 days of time served. He also pleaded guilty to the robbery charge and received one and a half to five years in prison.

In Tilton in February 2017, Engelhardt was accused of three drug sale counts and was formally charged in May 2017 during an Operation Granite Hammer effort. In October 2017, he pleaded guilty to two counts and received a sentence of one and a half to three years, with 128 days of time served, a suspended fine of $620, and a concurrent sentence of two to four years, suspended for four years with a $620 fine. He was also required to pay $200 in restitution to the Tilton Police Department.

Engelhardt was approved for work release in May 2018.

Engelhardt was arrested again on a slew of charges in April 2019, including habitual offender, felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, drug possession, and disobeying an officer in Concord. Three months later, he pleaded guilty to several charges and received a two- to six-year prison sentence, a $620 fine, three 12-month jail sentences, and a three- to six-year sentence, suspended for six years.

Judge John Kissinger denied a motion to amend the sentence in January 2020.

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