2 NH inmates walk away from transitional housing unit

MANCHESTER, NH (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Police say two inmates have gone missing from a transitional housing unit in the last 24 hours.

One minimum security inmate walked away from the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit on Thursday. Bruno Joseph Martin, 41, left the unit on Thursday morning to go to work and never returned. Martin, whose last known residence is in Salem, N.H., was placed on escape status shortly before midnight.

Martin is described as a white male, 5 foot 7 inches tall and as weighing 225 pounds. He has brown hair, hazel eyes, and tattoos on his back, right forearm, left wrist, left arm and right arm. Martin was sentenced to two to four years for burglary. He had complete 169 days of his sentence.

If Martin is convicted of an escape, he could be charged with up to seven years in prison.

The second inmate, Charles Arthur Namiot, 43, of Manchester, N.H., left for work at 5:10 a.m. on Friday and failed to return when he was supposed to at 6 p.m. He is described as a white man who stands at about 6-feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds. He has sandy hair and hazel eyes, police say, and a tattoo on his left shoulder along with scars on his right arm and right leg.

He was sentenced to two to eight years for armed robbery.

Anyone with information on either inmate is urged to contact police at (603) 271-1801.

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