The driver accused of driving the wrong way and killing a police officer from Exeter on Interstate 95 in Massachusetts early last Thanksgiving has been extradited to New Hampshire to face charges here.

Keoma Duarte, a 40-year-old New Bedford, Mass., man, was moved to the Rockingham County Department of Correction on Tuesday. Duarte faces two felony counts of reckless conduct and one misdemeanor charge of disobeying an officer on Nov. 27, 2024, in Hampton, New Hampshire State Police said in a written news release Friday.

Police said Duarte was driving the wrong way toward Massachusetts on I-95 north when New Hampshire state troopers tried to pull him over. After crossing the border shortly after midnight, Massachusetts troopers pursued him, but didn’t catch up with him until Duarte had

See Full Page