Nashua Thief Faces New Felony Charges; Has Been In And Out Of Prison During His 20 Year Criminal History

NASHUA, NH — A man from Nashua with a lengthy criminal history was arrested last week on new theft charges.

Between late July and late August, police received “numerous theft reports” from local stores, including Marshalls, Sunglass Hut, and the New Hampshire state Liquor and Wine Outlet, according to Sgt. John Cinelli, the public information officer and communications division supervisor for the Nashua Police Department, said.

“Officers were able to positively identify (a) suspect in these thefts using video surveillance,” he said. “Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division were assigned to further the investigation. Based on their investigation, they were granted an arrest warrant.”

Ulysses McMillan, 39, of Nashua, was arrested on Sept. 3 and charged with three counts of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, all felonies due to two prior convictions, and a theft by unauthorized taking or transfer-$1,501-plus charge, also a felony. He was released on personal recognizance and is due in Nashua District Court on Oct. 29 for arraignment.

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McMillan’s criminal history, according to superior court records, dates back more than two decades, after he was accused of robbery in Nashua in October 2004. In August 2005, he pleaded guilty to the charge and received a suspended sentence after serving 179 days in jail. In June 2006, a motion was made to impose the suspended sentence, but he failed to appear. Eventually, he was caught, and the suspended sentence was imposed, and he was given 46 more days in jail.

A crime spree ensued in 2007, and McMillan faced nearly a dozen new charges, including possession-sale of a narcotic, resisting arrest, and multiple counts of burglary, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and simple assault, all in Nashua. Many of the charges were nolle prossed after he was found guilty by a jury on one of the burglary charges. McMillan then pleaded guilty to the second burglary and one first-degree assault charge. McMillan received a 15-year prison sentence on the assault charge and was given 232 days of pretrial credit in March 2008. The burglary charge was a three-and-a-half-to-seven-year prison sentence, all suspended.

In Nashua, in 2009, McMillan was accused of acts prohibited, possession-sale of narcotic drug, and willful concealment charges. In December 2009, he pleaded guilty to the possession and sale charges and was given two two-to-five-year prison sentences.

McMillan was charged with conspiracy-delivery of articles to a state prison in 2012, connected to an incident in Berlin in February 2011. He pleaded guilty and received a one-to-five-year sentence to be served consecutively to his other sentences.

In 2015, 2016, and 2017, he racked up acts prohibited, drug possession, and controlled drug act charge in Nashua, and a delivery of articles to prisoners charge in Concord, all felonies. The acts prohibited charges were dismissed without prejudice in March 2016. In April 2017, McMillan pleaded guilty to one controlled drug act charge and the prisoner charge and received a one-to-three-year sentence and a one-and-a-half-to-three-year sentence, all suspended for three years, with 325 days of time served credit and a suspended fine of $434 with $140 in restitution to be paid to the Nashua Police Department. The two subsequent possession charges were nolle prossed in September 2018.

McMillan, in February 2019, was charged with drug sale, heroin-crack possession, and acts prohibited in Nashua. He pleaded guilty to the subsequent sale charge in January 2020 and was fined $620, which was suspended for three years, along with a $100 restitution fee to Nashua police. Ten months later, the sentence was amended to two to four years in prison, with 206 days time served all suspended for three years.

He was charged with subsequent possession and criminal trespass in Nashua in April 2020 and attempted escape, assault, and criminal trespass in Manchester in April 2020. In the Nashua case, McMillan pleaded guilty to the criminal trespass charge in April 2021 and received a suspended 12-month sentence. In the Manchester case, he pleaded out to a drug possession charge in June 2021 and received a two-to-seven-year sentence, with a $434 fine, all suspended for three years.

McMillan was in more trouble in May and August 2024. He was charged with willful concealment in Manchester, receiving stolen property in Manchester, willful concealment in Manchester, theft and drug possession in Nashua, subsequent drug possession in Nashua, and drug possession in Nashua. In May, he pleaded guilty to one willful concealment charge while two were nolle prossed. McMillan received a 12-month sentence, suspended for five years, with $6,600 in restitution to Dick’s Sporting Goods in Manchester.

Other charges are still active.

Anyone with information about the case was asked to contact police at 603-589-1665.

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