Murphy’s experience and knowledge of the community led him to local hotels and, ultimately, to the Seabrook Inn where the subject was located. “This incident is an example of great investigative work by our patrol officers,” Walker said. Unless he fights extradition, he could be transported back to Connecticut sometime Wednesday, Walker said. He was originally held at Seabrook Police Department, Walker said, where police from Connecticut arrived.Ĭandler was expected to spend the night at Rockingham House of Correction to await arraignment of fugitive charges at Hampton Circuit Court on Wednesday, Walker said.

“SERT members took Candler into custody at approximately 1:40 p.m.”Ĭandler is being charged in New Hampshire with being a fugitive from justice as a result of the Connecticut warrants.

“After the suspect did not acknowledge phone calls or audible requests to surrender, Seabrook police requested the assistance of the Seacoast Emergency Response Team (SERT), the regional tactical team,” according to Walker. Officers attempted to contact the subject using the hotel phone as well as using the speaker system on patrol cruisers, Walker said. as they continued to investigate to determine if Candler was in fact still in the room at the hotel, Walker said. Seabrook officers set up a perimeter around the hotel at approximately 11 a.m. When the trooper arrived, he found one deceased man, later identified as Jaffrey C. on Sunday, May 1, a State Trooper responded to a report of an assault that had life-threatening injuries at 214 Miller Road in Chaplin, Connecticut. “The Connecticut State Police would like to thank the Seabrook, New Hampshire Police Department, the New Hampshire State Police, the Salisbury, Massachusetts Police Department, and all of the law enforcement agencies who assisted in swiftly locating and apprehending this individual.”Īccording to Connecticut State Police, at about 6 a.m. “Candler was safely taken into custody by the Seabrook Police Department on the strength of an extraditable felony warrant out of Connecticut,” Connecticut State Police posted on its Facebook page. Seabrook police, with the assistance of the Seacoast Emergency Response Team and other law enforcement agencies, arrested 46-year-old Matthew Candler at the Seabrook Inn on Stard Road. SEABROOK - The suspect in a Connecticut homicide was arrested Tuesday at a Seabrook hotel by Seabrook police, according to the Connecticut State Police.

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