Second-Degree Assaulter, Minimum-Security Inmate Flees Concord Transitional Work Center: NH Corrections

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections is asking for the public’s help in finding a minimum-security inmate placed on escape status on Saturday night.

David Paul Hamilton, 27, was last seen at Concord’s Calvary Cemetery, not from the North End transitional unit, getting into a full-size black pickup truck around 9:45 p.m. The pickup, officials said, had a cap and aftermarket exhaust. Hamilton was placed on escape status at 11:30 p.m.

Hamilton is white, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall, and weighs around 150 pounds. He has brown eyes, a shaved head, a beard, and numerous tattoos on his face and both arms. Hamilton was last seen wearing a dark gray sweatshirt, light gray sweatpants, black boots, and a black skull cap.

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According to superior court records, Hamilton was accused of possessing a stolen firearm in July 2016 in Manchester. He was indicted in March 2018. A few months later, Hamilton reached a plea and received a one-year mandatory sentence, maximum of two years, all suspended for three years, along with a $620 fine. The fine was to be paid out of cash “seized from (defendant) at the time of (the) arrest.”

In Manchester in July 2022, he was arrested on first-degree assault, second-degree assault, conduct after an accident with death or injury, cruelty to animals, and disobeying an officer. In November 2022, Hamilton pleaded guilty to three second-degree assault-deadly weapon and bodily injury charges and received two two-and-a-half-to-five-year sentences, served concurrently, and one three-and-a-half-to-seven-year sentence, suspended for 10 years. All the other charges were nolle prossed. In February 2024, Hamilton requested an amended sentence but it was denied a month later. He received work release in July 2024.

The state also sought to claim forfeiture of $16,742 from Hamilton in September 2022. The case was dismissed in March 2023.

Hamilton’s minimum custody release date was July 1, 2027, with a maximum date of Jan. 1, 2030.

Anyone who knows where Hamilton is or sees anyone who resembles him should call Chief Investigator Jason Darrah of the NH DOC Investigations Bureau at 603-848-2569 or local police.

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