Update on the post I made on Saturday

Ex-officer charged in boy’s kidnap try

By LORNA COLQUHOUN

WHITEFIELD — The man charged last week with using a chain to force a 15-year-old New Jersey boy into his vehicle is a former police officer who has served in at least three New Hampshire communities.

George Nugent, 56, is being held without bail in the Coos County House of Correction in West Stewartstown as a fugitive from justice while he awaits extradition to New Jersey, where he is charged with attempted kidnapping.

According to the state’s Police Standards and Training Council, he was a part-time Lancaster police officer from 1984 to 1996. Before that, he was a full-time officer in Northumberland and Litchfield, according to veteran North Country police officers.

Nugent was arrested last Wednesday morning at his rented home on the Jefferson Road in Whitefield, where he had lived for just a few months.

Authorities said Nugent met a boy who was riding a bike near the boy's Galloway Township home on Aug. 21 and tried to chain him to the inside of Nugent's Jeep.

The boy fought Nugent off, police said. But it took bolt cutters to remove a 4-foot chain the man had allegedly locked around the youth's neck.

from Union Leader