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Police: Man who took over Clinton office flees

Authorities looking for New Hampshire convict who cut off electronic device

	Leeland Eisenberg of Rochester is taken into custody after a nearly six-hour hostage and standoff situation at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, N.H. on Nov. 30, 2007. View related photos
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CONCORD, N.H. - The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and is a fugitive, New Hampshire authorities said Tuesday.

Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi said Leeland Eisenberg cut off the bracelet Tuesday morning. That was a day after Verlardi said he was given a "last chance" at freedom by a judge who released him despite probation violations. (Emphasis added)

Velardi says Eisenberg is a danger to the public and should not be approached. (Emphasis added)

Leland spent about two years behind bars for the November 2007 siege at Clinton's campaign office in Rochester. He was released on probation last November. His first violation occurred soon after his release, when he failed to charge his monitoring bracelet.

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Clinton Campaign Hostage Taker On the Run

February 9, 2010 - 2:40 PM | by: Meredith Orban

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Leeland Eisenberg, the man who was convicted on seven counts of kidnapping and also of criminal threatening after a November 2007 hostage taking at then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Rochester, New Hampshire campaign office, is a fugitive according to Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi. Velardi says that after a 9:30am hearing yesterday, Eisenberg was released around lunchtime or 1:00pm yesterday and he's already cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet. Once the bracelet was removed this morning, Velardi asked the court for an arrest warrant and it was immediately granted. They've set extradition limits for the continental US and a BOLO (be on the lookout) has been put out for all local law enforcement. Velardi urges the public to call any leads into local law enforcement and notes that Eisenberg has been violent in the past. At this moment, authorities have no direct leads one way or another as to Eisenberg's whereabouts past about 11:00am when there was a possible lead that he was in the immediate Dover, NH area. Because Eisenberg is on probation this is a Department of Corrections case, but local law enforcement can and will assist in apprehension if tips are called in.

Velardi says that Eisenberg does have a history of escape when incarcerated in Massachusetts in 1980- that Eisenberg did a "walk away" type of escape. Because of this, Velardi's position has always been that Eisenberg should be at the State Prison, not the House of Corrections where he had been incarcerated. Velardi also notes that Eisenberg has violated his probation in the past. Violations include failing to charge his GPS so it went dead, failing to take scheduled breath tests, and missing his medications on a few occasions.

In November 2007 Leeland Eisenberg took several hostages in Clinton's local campaign office and threatened to blow the building up with a bomb strapped to his body. The bomb turned out to be fake.

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Eisenberg, who took hostages at Clinton campaign office, flees

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Eisenberg cut off his monitoring equipment at approximately 10:09 a.m. and is now at large.

Any persons having knowledge of Eisnberg's whereabouts are asked to call the Strafford County Department of Corrections at (603) 742-6621 or the Strafford County Community Corrections Program at 516-5178.

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-- Edited by Sanders on Tuesday 9th of February 2010 04:20:28 PM

-- Edited by Sanders on Wednesday 10th of February 2010 02:39:54 PM