Londonderry News

First snow storm in Londonderry bad night for local drivers last night, but a great revenue night for recovery and tow truck units! From just before 8pm through just after 11pm.

Londonderry recorded one dozen wrecks in 10 different incidents throughout town in those three hours. At times publishing these in our Londonderry Breaking News section resulted in a rapid fire blasts of driving lessons on dealing with the first snow. No personal injuries were reported in these accidents, the majority of which were cars that had departed the roadway.

This first snow brought a new thief to town. In the area of 242 High Range Road a man reported that “Someone just stole his snowmobile. It is an Arctic Cat F6 Firecat yellow and orange. The caller heard it start up and looked outside just to see the taillights as it was headed towards Pillsbury Road.” This happened at 1:47 am this morning.

Litchfield Police were notified with the thought that the thief would be able to travel swiftly on the snow machine in a attempt to escape Londonderry Police. Officers found fresh tracks from a snowmobile entering the power lines by Shasta Road traveling in the direction of Litchfield. Police fanned out on streets surrounding the area looking for the possible truck that may be waiting to transport the Arctic Cat from the area. This set of power lines also heads into the Musquash a 1000 acre preserve in north west Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Just 36 minutes into the incident Officer John Perry began a track with ZIP the Londonderry K9 to see if they could find the Arctic Cat and the person that ran off with it. Just that day the owner had put it on by the side of the road for sale.

Zip found the machine 100 yards in from the roadway. At that point ZIP got a track on some footprints leading away from where the thief abandoned the machine. The suspect apparently was zigzagging across water to hide his scent from the Londonderry Police dog. When “waste deep in water,” at the edge of a large body of water Officer Perry broke off the track and circled around in an attempt to pick up the track once again.

The K9 search with zip ended just after 3am this morning Sunday December 6th.

The following YouTube video is a Arctic Cat F6, similar to the machine stolen last night playing on the power lines in a unknown location, and is not related to this search.