Updated
Updated · Patch · Jun 12
New Hampshire Searches for 61-Year-Old Inmate Eric Wollen After Missing 2:15 p.m. Return
Updated
Updated · Patch · Jun 12

New Hampshire Searches for 61-Year-Old Inmate Eric Wollen After Missing 2:15 p.m. Return

2 articles · Updated · Patch · Jun 12

Summary

  • Eric J. Wollen, a 61-year-old minimum-security inmate, was placed on escape status after failing to return Thursday to the North End Transitional Housing Unit in Concord.
  • Wollen signed out around 8:45 a.m. on June 11 to walk to the New Hampshire Employment Security office on South Fruit Street and was due back by 2:15 p.m., officials said.
  • Authorities said he is white, about 5-foot-10 and 200 pounds, with hazel eyes and blond-gray hair; he was last seen in a white Harley-Davidson T-shirt, camouflage shorts and black boots.
  • Wollen is serving time on a habitual offender charge, with an early release date of May 2027 and a maximum release date of May 2030.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections asked anyone with information on his whereabouts to contact its Investigations Bureau or local police.

Insights

Why would a 61-year-old inmate, just a year from freedom, risk everything to escape?
With another inmate walking away, are New Hampshire's halfway houses becoming a revolving door?