Derry Woman Charged with Burglarizing Home

A Derry woman is charged with burglarizing a local home, and police believe she may be connected to a series of other home break-ins.

Bonnie Usher, 46, of 13L Blackberry Road was arrested at 11:18 a.m. on Jan. 15 after Derry Police stopped her vehicle on South Main Street. Detectives had just seen her enter a residence on Kingsbury Street and leave a few minutes later carrying property from that house. Officers checked the house and discovered that it had been burglarized.

Neighbors on Dexter Avenue reported that they observed a woman matching Usher’s description a short time earlier prowling around a house on that street whose owners were not home. The woman left after she was confronted by an alert neighbor. 

Usher is charged with burglary and attempted burglary based on these incidents. She was also arrested on two Derry Police warrants alleging theft by deception and receiving stolen property. She is alleged to have pawned several jewelry items at “Cash for Gold” in Derry on Jan. 14. The items were identified as having been stolen in a burglary on Dustin Avenue on Jan. 2.

Derry Police said the town has experienced more than a dozen residential burglaries over the past month and a half where jewelry and money were stolen. Derry detectives are working with police in surrounding communities where similar break-ins have occurred. Connections between all of these burglaries and Usher’s alleged conduct are being investigated.

Usher was arraigned Thursday morning in Derry District Court. She is being held on $15,000 bail and has a probable cause hearing scheduled in Derry court on Jan. 23.