Local residents sentenced on drug, domestic violence charges

Keene Sentinel - 9/5/2017

Sept. 05--Sentences for drug charges were handed down recently in Cheshire County Superior Court in Keene:

Misty L. Squires, 31, of Keene was sentenced to three concurrent one- to four-year prison sentences. The sentences were for possession of heroin, crack cocaine and Suboxone, all felonies and all committed in Keene in April. Each sentence was suspended for five years. For each charge, she was ordered to pay $434 in fines and penalties, all suspended for five years; placed on probation for five years; and ordered to complete the Cheshire County Drug Court program.

Squires also pleaded guilty to another felony charge of possession of heroin, in Swanzey in June. She was sentenced to two to five years in N.H. State Prison, all suspended for eight years and consecutive to the previous sentences, and levied $434 in fines and penalties, all suspended for five years.

She was also found guilty of three counts of violating her probation in April, June and July on a 2016 conviction for felony possession of heroin. She was sentenced to 74 days in jail and credited with 74 days served while awaiting resolution of her case. Court documents do not indicate how she violated her probation.

Alexander Lawrence, 45, of Bellows Falls pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession of an illegal drug in Cheshire County in April. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, all suspended for two years, and ordered to pay $434 in fines and penalties, all suspended for two years. Sentencing documents do not specify what drug Lawrence was convicted of possessing.

He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor control of a vehicle where illegal drugs were found in Cheshire County in January 2016. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, concurrent with the previous sentence and all suspended for two years, and ordered to pay $434 in fines and penalties, all suspended for two years.

Also recently sentenced:

Andrew R. Symington, 30, of Winchester pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence stemming from an incident in Winchester in May. Court records show he pushed his mother backward over the kitchen counter, so that her back was flat against the surface.

Symington also pleaded guilty to obstructing the reporting of a crime, a misdemeanor, stemming from the same incident. According to court documents, he smashed a telephone on the floor, breaking it, to prevent the domestic violence from being reported.

For each crime, he was sentenced to 120 days in jail, each sentence deferred for one year and then suspended for another year, and credited with 39 days served while awaiting resolution of his case. The sentences are concurrent, and the court retained jurisdiction during the deferral period to impose, terminate, suspend or defer the sentences for another year the sentences. He was fined $50 and ordered to undergo a domestic violence evaluation.

A charge of second-degree assault -- domestic violence, a felony, was dismissed by prosecutors.

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