Man with penchant for ramming police cruisers visits city, later nabbed in Maine

Travis Mosely (Police mugshot)

ROCHESTER - A 23-year-old driver who rammed multiple police vehicle during a pair of incidents in five days was finally taken into custody on Tuesday in York, Maine.

Travis J. Moseley of Portsmouth, is currently being held on preventative detention in the Rockingham County House of Correction.

Moseley is due in court today to be arraigned on four counts of Reckless Conduct (B Felony), three counts of Disobeying a Police Officer (A misdemeanor), 3 counts of Operating After Suspension (violation), Criminal Mischief (B Felony), Resisting Arrest (A misdemeanor), and Conduct After an Accident (A misdemeanor). These charges are spread among both Rockingham and Strafford counties.

Police got involved in Tuesday's incident around 12:20 p.m. when New Hampshire State Police Troop A was made aware of a certain vehicle that was parked within a public parking lot in Rochester. The vehicle was known to several Seacoast law enforcement agencies, due to multiple recent contacts.

Last wee the vehicle was involved in a multi-town pursuit on Thursday after the driver intentionally damaged several Newmarket Police cars. On that occasion, New Hampshire State Troopers were able to locate the vehicle, although the operator failed to stop and continued driving in a reckless manner. Due to dangerousness, that pursuit was terminated, State Police say. Even without chase, however, the operator traveled northerly in the southbound lanes of travel while crossing the Interstate 95 Piscataqua River Bridge from New Hampshire into Maine.

Based upon those events, and ensuing investigation, the suspect vehicle was identified as a silver, 2018 Ford Escape. The operator was also identified as Moseley. Warrants for Moseley's arrest included charges of Reckless Conduct (B Felony). It was also learned that Moseley did not have a driver's license.

On Tuesday Rochester Police were made aware of open warrants on Moseley, stemming from felony and misdemeanor crimes in Newmarket, Soon after Rochester Police received information that Moseley and his vehicle may have been in the parking lot of the Spaulding Common (Planet Fitness) at 306 North Main St.

Around 12:15 p.m. Rochester Officer Dwayne Hatch and his K9 partner, Ripley, located the vehicle in the parking lot backed into a parking space with a tree directly behind it. At that point Hatch positioned his cruiser in front of Moseley's vehicle to block it in, prompting Moseley to make several multi-point turns in an effort to get around Hatch's cruiser, according to a statement from Rochester Police.

Around this time, a NHSP Trooper had arrived to assist, but Moseley wasn't done. He pulled forward out of the parking space, striking both Hatch's and the Trooper's cruisers. Hatch and the Trooper had both exited their cruisers before the collision happened and were not injured. The crash was at a low speed and there was property damage yet no injuries to either law enforcement officers or K9 Ripley, who was inside the RPD cruiser during the collision.

No injuries or damage to public property was incurred as a result of these events, police say. Several aspects of this investigation remain active and anyone with pertinent information is asked to contact Trooper Matthew Bailey at Matthew.S.Bailey@dos.nh.gov.