NEWMARKET, N.H. (WHDH) - A Newmarket man was arrested Friday morning after an overnight incident that prompted a shelter in place order in the town.
Mark Allen McLean was arrested following a brief struggle with authorities shortly after 4 a.m.
Newmarket police received a request for a welfare check Thursday evening; the caller said they heard an argument while on the phone with her mother, a call that ended abruptly.
Soon after, officers made contact with the caller’s mother.
“She informed police she had been the victim of a domestic assault,” Newmarket police said in a statement. “Officers immediately began searching for the alleged suspect.”
Police soon received report of the suspect’s, later identified as McLean, next location.
“A short time later, police were dispatched to a local downtown business where the same suspect had reportedly arrived, brandished a firearm, and made threats,” police said in a statement. “The suspect then fled into a large mill complex nearby.”
According to police, McLean threatened self-harm and an intent to provoke a confrontation with law enforcement.
Additional law enforcement resources assisted police in searching multiple locations in town and throughout the mill complex.
He was found just after 4 a.m.
“Officers located McLean hiding inside an apartment in the mill complex where he did not reside,” police said. “Following a brief struggle, he was taken into custody and transported to a hospital as a precaution.”
McLean faces charges including felony reckless conduct, domestic violence assault, and resisting arrest.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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