A Sandown, N.H., woman was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with an alleged shooting the night before in Haverhill.
Exeter, N.H., Police reported Friday 54-year-old Nona M. Basnett weas arrested after the department received a call from Haverhill Police around noon, saying Haverhill “tracked a shooting suspect to a residence on Chapman Way in Exeter”
Exeter reported Haverhill Police obtained an arrest warrant to charge Basnett with assault to murder while armed, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, carrying a loaded firearm without a license and possession of large capacity firearm/feeding device.
Basnett was arrested without incident Friday at 12:11 p.m., Exeter Police added, by members of the U.S. Marshals Service, detectives from Haverhill Police and Exeter Police patrol officers. She was taken to the Exeter Police Department and charged as a fugitive from justice, a Class B felony and later to the Rockingham County Jail.
Basnett is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. No details about a Haverhill shooting have yet been released.