The Truth Bites "NH": NO SMALL WONDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT ADDRESSED IN NH PROPERLY

The Truth Bites "NH": NO SMALL WONDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT ADDRESSED IN NH PROPERLY

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
County prosecutor arrested on domestic violence charges
MERRIMACK – A Hillsborough County attorney prosecutor and former police officer was arrested Monday night on domestic violence charges, police report.

Joseph Fricano, 37, of Belmont Drive, Merrimack, is charged with simple assault, criminal mischief and obstructing the report of a crime, police report. He was released on personal recognizance, and arraigned Tuesday in Merrimack District Court, police reported.
Police were called to the home at 8:42 p.m. for a report of a disturbance, and they charge that Fricano had assaulted someone in the home, damaged property and then stopped the victim from calling police.
Fricano has taken leave from his job as an Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney, where he has worked for more than six years since leaving the Nashua Police force, Hillsborough County Attorney Dennis Hogan said Tuesday.
Fricano’s case work will be reassigned, but no decision has been made regarding his employment, Hogan said. Hogan declined to speculate on whether Fricano could continue to work as a prosecutor if he were convicted of the charges.
“The office is sad about it,” Hogan said of Fricano’s arrest. “Obviously, our hearts go out to him and his family, his wife and him.”
- Andrew Wolfe