Nashua Felon Arrested On Knife, Handgun Possession, Violation Of A Protective Order Charges

NASHUA, NH — A felon from the Gate City was arrested last weekend again on weapon charges as well as assault, mischief, and resisting arrest, according to police.

Police stopped Gregory Isabelle, 41, of Nashua, on Saturday after reportedly seeing him operating a bicycle without the proper equipment. During the investigation, police learned he was a felon and accused him of possessing a knife and a handgun, according to Sgt. John Cinelli, the public information officer and communications division supervisor for the Nashua Police Department.

“Officers attempted to detain Isabelle, but he tensed his arms and pulled them away from the officers,” he said.

Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division were assigned to further this investigation and after speaking with Isabelle and witnesses, “it was determined that Isabelle had engaged in a domestic altercation earlier in the day where he assaulted an intimate partner and damaged property within the residence, as well as being the defendant in a restraining order.”

Isabelle was charged with two felony counts of possession of a dangerous weapon as well as violation of a protection order, domestic violence-criminal mischief, domestic violence-simple assault, and three resisting arrest or detention charges as well as a city ordinance prohibited acts: bicycle violation. He was held on preventive detention and was scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

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Isabelle has a criminal record dating back more than two decades, when he was accused of two felony counts of receiving stolen property in Merrimack in August 2003. He pleaded guilty to the charges in January 2005, receiving a three-year prison sentence.

In December 2010, he was accused of two counts of felon in possession of a dangerous weapon in Nashua.

In December 2011, Isabelle pleaded guilty to the two weapon possession charges and received two two-to-five-year sentences, deferred for a year. Those sentences were deferred for another year in December 2012.

Another charge of being a felon in possession followed in July 2012 in Nashua. In December of that year, he pleaded guilty and received a 12-month suspended sentence. In March 2014, a one-year sentence was imposed.

In Merrimack, in January 2023, Isabelle was accused of three counts of criminal threatening. The charges were nolle prossed in June 2023.

Isabelle was also accused of felon in possession of a dangerous weapon and willful concealment in Amherst in May 2024. That case is expected to go to the jury on Aug. 18.

The Nashua Police Department requests anyone with additional information about this incident to contact the Crime Line at 603-589-1665.

Editor's note: Information concerning a case out of Manchester involving a man with the same name born in the same month in the 1980s was incorrectly included in the prior criminal history information. It has been corrected.

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