The Portsmouth Police Department has concluded a 4 month long narcotics investigation which resulted in 61 indictments being handed down by a Portsmouth Grand Jury. Chief Hargis along with members of the Special Investigations Unit will hold a press conference at the Police Training Unit, 330 County Street, (NE corner of Court and County Streets) o [...]

City Manager Kenneth Chandler appointed Edward G. Hargis, 45, of Camden, NJ as the new Police Chief in Portsmouth. Chief Hargis is an 18 year veteran of the Camden, NJ Police Department with 22 years total as a police officer. Chief Hargis was also on the “short list” for the Port St Lucie Police Department in Florida. Find more on Ch [...]

Early on a Wednesday morning on Novemeber 23rd, 2005 I received a telephone call from a friend. “Rick’s gone.” What? Rick Spaulding, a brother police officer had suffered a heart attack after being involved in a pursuit and subsequent arrest of a suspect. Rick had the suspect in the back of his police car and was transporting him [...]

I don’t know anymore about the case than what has been published in the papers and in the broadcast media. But on Friday, Portsmouth police announced they had arrested 17-year-old Robert Lee Barnes in the slaying of Meghan Landowski, a Woodrow Wilson High School student whose April 10 death at home in the middle of the afternoon had shocked [...]