Man Faces Heroin Possession, Loudon Burglary Charges

A Concord District Court affidavit and arrest report reveal more charges filed against a local man who has been arrested twice in the last two months.

Concord Police arrested Robert Edward McKenzie, 28, a homeless man now located in Concord, at 2:55 p.m. on April 3, on felony possession of controlled drugs. He was also charged with receiving stolen property and theft by deception.

According to records, McKenzie, who was charged from the Merrimack County House of Corrections, was “a suspected heroin addict with ties to recent retail theft rings” in mid-March.

As part of the investigation into recent crimes connected to the opiate epidemic in the city, Concord detectives learned of a burglary of a home on Lovejoy Road in Loudon on the morning of March 19, with thousands of dollars in jewelry and electronics, cash, coins, and paintball guns reportedly stolen. The items included a Samsung flat screen television, Oakley sunglasses, clothes, a Sony Playstation, an Emerson flat screen television, charges, USB drives, a watch, a credit card, and various video games.

A neighbor reported seeing two white men driving in the area previously in the day and gave police a description of what he saw.

Later in the day, the victim received a call from a camera store in Manchester about gear that a man attempted to pawn at the store. The clerk found the situation “highly suspicious” and checked the serial numbers of the gear and the registrations came up connected to the victim. The clerk told the man that he needed an ID and wouldn’t pay cash for the items.

“(The clerk) stated that the young man became nervous and promptly left the store with the equipment,” according to court records.

The clerk described the man as young, tall, white, with a long thin nose and brown hair, a description similar to McKenzie. The clerk also wrote down the license plate of the Kia Spectra that the man left the area in and police later ID’d the car as being owned by McKenzie.

The next day, a sergeant in Concord checked the city’s pawnshop database and allegedly found that McKenzie had sold 11 vintage coins to a North Main Street jeweler just hours after the Loudon burglary.

A detective went to the jewelry store and took custody of the coins (valued at $40) and also received a copy of the ID that was taken as part of the sale that was allegedly McKenzie.

The victim later ID’d the coins as her son’s.

On March 21, a warrant was sworn out for McKenzie’s arrest. Police arrested him outside of the Storrs Street side of the Vegas Block Apartments later that night. An associate, Ronald Perron, was arrested later. 

As part of that arrest, police allegedly found McKenzie to be in possession of syringes, caps, baggies, and a spoon with residue that were later determined to be heroin and filed those charges. One baggie allegedly contained 5.5 grams of heroin, according to an arrest report.

McKenzie requested bail that was set at $2,500 cash. He was held and arraigned on April 4.

Editor’s note: The following story was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department and Concord District Court. It does not indicate a conviction.