Fourth Strike for Hampton Teen Free on Suspended Sentence

A Hampton teen has been arrested once again, making it four different times that he's been in handcuffs since he was released 10 months ago on a suspended jail sentence due to a burglary at a North Hampton home.


State police arrested Jordan Welch, 19, of Hampton, on an outstanding bench warrant on Sept. 2 on Carolyn Drive in Hampton. Welch was also charged with possession of a controlled drug, according to state police.

Welch was a suspect in two different December 2011 burglaries of the same North Hampton home. Welch was indicted on two counts of being an accomplice to burglary, and in November 2012 received a 12-month suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge.

Since the plea deal, Welch has now been arrested on four different occasions. 

Rockingham County sheriffs arrested Welch on two probation violation charges — one for receiving stolen property, the other for criminal trespassing — on March 20.

Welch was then arrested by Hampton police on May 14 following an early-morning traffic stop on Hackett Lane. Police charged him with driving after revocation or suspension.

The third arrest came on July 23, when sheriffs again arrested him for violating parole on the receiving stolen property charge.

Welch has previously served time at the Rockingham County House of Corrections, and was charged with resisting detention and possession of a controlled drug on Feb. 26, 2012, during a large illegal drinking party at a home owned by North Hampton Budget Committee member David Peck.

Welch was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief and resisting arrest by New Hampshire State Police in connection to that house party.