Fugitive of The Week Surrendered After Being Featured In Media

CONCORD, NH – Yesterday, this week’s “Fugitive of the Week,” Robert Jennings, 42, surrendered to the Strafford County Superior Court after being featured on Wednesday. 

Mr. Jennings had been wanted on an arrest warrant for failure to appear on anoriginal charge of burglary.   Robert had been just featured as the “Fugitive of the Week” onWednesday, January 10, 2018. The “Fugitive of the Week” had been aired on WTPL-FM, WMUR-TV, The Union

Leader, The Nashua Telegraph, The Patch, Foster’s Daily Democrat, Manchester Information, the Manchester Ink Link and prominently featured on the internet. The “Fugitive of the Week” has been a very successful tool that has resulted in the location and arrest of numerous fugitives since its implementation in 2007.  Additionally, the “Fugitive of the Week” is distributed statewide to all law enforcement officers.

Mr. Jennings received word that he was the “Fugitive of the Week” and chose to do the right thing and

surrender at the Strafford County Superior Court.  As we often indicate on the program, ‘your odds of being released on bail are greatly increase if you surrender.’  This was the case with Mr. Jennings, as he appeared in Strafford Superior Court and was subsequently released on bail.

Since the inception of the New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force in 2002, these partnerships have resulted in over 7,029 arrests (Updated as of 12/18/2017). These arrests have ranged in seriousness from murder, assault, unregistered sex offenders, probation and parole violations and numerous other serious offenses. Nationally the United States Marshals Service fugitive programs are carried out with local law enforcement in 94 district offices, 85 local fugitive task forces, 8 regional task forces, as well as a growing network of offices in foreign countries.