Firecracker Joe and Rocco imprisoned

[Kat Kanning]

I got a letter forwarded to me last night from Firecracker Joe.  He said, "I got a bit wild Fri. 01/10/10 which resulted in a good old beating by LEOs and search warrants for anything I own."

He says he wants to let the FSP use his RV.

Rocco's in the pound and he wants me to take him.  Russell doesn't like dogs particularly, so I thought we'd ask if anyone wants to rescue Rocco?  He's offering to pay for the dog's upkeep.

He says he's at Carroll County DOC, $100,000 cash bail, expects arraignment Tuesday (but I have no idea when the letter was sent), expects lots of new charges to be piled on, but doesn't say what any of the charges are.  He tried to call me, Lauren, Ian but says we are on a Do Not Call list.

Letters to:
Joe Roux
PO Box 688
Ossipee, NH 03864


I haven't checked out any info on him at the jail yet, or tried to find out if Rocco still lives or not.  He didn't tell me which pound Rocco was incarcerated at.

[Kat Kanning]

http://www.wmur.com/news/22274132/detail.html
Man Charged With Driving Through Garage Door, Firing Shots
Police Say Man Drove Mobile Home Through Garage Door

POSTED: 1:33 pm EST January 19, 2010
TAMWORTH, N.H. -- A Tamworth man was arrested Saturday after police investigated a report of gunshots and a man driving a motor home through a garage door.

Joseph Roux, 47, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless conduct, simple assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.

Police said Roux crashed a motor home through the garage door of his house. They said he also fired two shots into the air, resulting in the reckless conduct charges.

Police applied for and obtained a search warrant to search several vehicles and one building. Those searches led to the discovery of several firearms and several hundred rounds of ammunition, along with a quantity of controlled drugs, police said.

Roux was later charged with six counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of possession of a controlled drug.

Roux was ordered held on $150,000 cash bail and was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.

[Tom Sawyer]

Damn... the prez is going to be bummed by this news... he loves to see Firecracker Joe coming.

I never saw him drink... guess this is why. 

[Friday]

Is this Rocco??  I thought he was a golden retriever.  But this dog is in the right area and is the right age.

http://www.lrhs.net/dogadopt.html

[Kat Kanning]

Carroll County Jail
(603) 539-2282

Carroll County Superior Court
(603) 539-2201

Conway Area Humane Society
(603) 447-5955

Don't know if these are the right numbers.

[Kat Kanning]

Last I saw Rocco, he was a golden retriver puppy....might be grown now.

[Friday]

I called the Tamworth PD to ask where they take dogs, but no one answered the phone.   

Every area humane society I looked at is closed on Sunday.  And unfortunately, Tamworth is way the F north.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Joe is a bit of a loose cannon.  While I know that Canterbury is not Grafton, how is it that police would be called over gunshots, much less, respond. Joe's driveway is rather long and, at least in the summer I don't think can be seen from the town road.
Joe probably has a probable cause case here.
From time to time I have donated the skills it took me years to learn to Porc's in NH. I assumed that most of us would do so. Evan Nappen turned out to be one Hell of a disappointment.  I remember meeting a couple of newly made Porc lawyers at the wedding.
Perhaps one of you could step up and help Joe. He is an ex-con and after the authorities, his own worse enemy

[Kat Kanning]

He was in Tamworth, not Canturbury.  He hasn't been staying at his house.

[SethCohn]

If you can track Rocco down  , and need a temporary home for him, let me know.

[Kat Kanning]

Awesome, Seth...thanks!

[SethCohn]

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100120/GJNEWS02/701209867/-1/CITNEWS
has more details, including a date of Jan 28th for an hearing, so it's likely that happened already too...

Small motor home driven through garage door; Tamworth man facing several charges

By JOHN KOZIOL
jkoziol@citizen.com
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A local man is facing a slew of charges, including operating under the influence and illegal possession of firearms, following a bizarre incident that began when he reportedly drove a small motor home through a garage door.

Joseph M. Roux, 47, of 1287 Bearcamp Highway in Tamworth, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Southern Carroll District Court on a charge of driving while intoxicated, two counts of felony reckless conduct — simple assault on a police officer, two counts of resisting arrest, six counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm — being an armed career criminal, and two counts of possession of a controlled drug.

Roux is being held at the Carroll County jail on $150,000 cash bail pending a probable cause hearing on Jan. 28.

State Police Lt. Scott Carr, commander of the State Police Troop E barracks in Tamworth, said State Police received a call at 8:01 a.m. Saturday about a motor vehicle accident on Bearcamp Highway (Route 25). As troopers responded to the scene, another call was received saying there had been shots in the area.

Upon arriving, Carr said troopers found Roux on the opposite side of the road from his residence where the motor home he was operating had gotten stuck in snow. Carr said Roux apparently drove the camper through the closed door of the garage and then proceeded across Route 25 onto a neighbor's property, where he was eventually taken into custody.

State Police later obtained search warrants for additional vehicles as well as a building at Roux's residence and subsequently located several firearms, including a 9-mm. pistol, several hundred rounds of ammunition and a quantity of controlled drugs, including marijuana.

Carr said Roux has prior drug-related felony convictions and as a consequence was barred by state law from possessing a firearm.

Carr called the incident "unusual."

"It's kind of a bizarre event. At this point we're continuing to investigate," he said.

State Police were assisted by the Sandwich Police Department, Carroll County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

[Lloyd Danforth]

He was in Tamworth, not Canturbury.  He hasn't been staying at his house.

Oh.

[Lance]

If there are admissions to driving after drinking and the other sort of evidence I'd expect to see, then that's gonna be a tough case to defend.  4 to 6 months from open to close, maybe a trial, maybe not, but any plea offer is going to include a bunch of prison time... not pretty.  There are probably lots of issues that would be helpful for his defense but they take time to discover and establish.  At "normal" rates the defense of this case would run somewhere between $20 and $50 grand. 

[PattyLee loves dogs]

 
Has Rocco been located? Do they euthanize dogs in these shelters? Is he is the Pit bull Rocco in the pic on th link? Or is he a lab. Does any one know at this point about Rocco?    PL