The Ledger-Transcript
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — Jeremy Bouchard, the former clinical director of the Peterborough Fire and Rescue Department’s ambulance service who resigned last year after he was charged with the theft of narcotics from Peterborough ambulances, has pleaded guilty to two felony charges.
Bouchard, 36, entered guilty pleas on Feb. 27 on charges of possession of a controlled drug and possession of a controlled/narcotic drug, according to officials at Hillsborough County Superior Court, Northern Division, in Manchester. A sentencing hearing will be held on April 22 at the Manchester court. A third count against Bouchard, charging him with theft by unauthorized taking, will be dropped, according to Assistant Attorney General James Vara, who prosecuted the case.
Peterborough police arrested Bouchard on Aug. 3, 2013, after an investigation that was prompted by an inventory by the Fire Department of drugs that were stored in a Peterborough ambulance. The drugs were the property of Monadnock Community Hospital. Bouchard was accused of taking fentanyl and morphine that had been documented as resupplies for Peterborough’s ambulances. The thefts took place between August 2012 and August 2013, when Bouchard was working as an ambulance medic.
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