Man Indicted for Biting State Trooper

A Concord man who led multiple agencies on a chase in December has been indicted on multiple charges, including an allegation that he bit a New Hampshire State Police trooper who was trying to help him.

Sean McGurk, 42, of 61 Washington St., Apt. A was indicted this month by a Rockingham County Superior Court grand jury on one count of theft by unauthorized taking, two counts of operating after being certified as a habitual offender, one count of simple assault and one count of resisting arrest or detention. According to the indictments, on Dec. 21, 2013, he exercised unauthorized control of a Pontiac Grand Am that did not belong to him, drove a motor vehicle even though he was forbidden from doing so, bit a trooper and physically interfered with a trooper trying to arrest him.

The trooper had pulled over on Interstate 93 south in Salem to help McGurk with his disabled vehicle near the Mall at Rockingham Park. McGurk then allegedly assaulted the trooper and then broke free and fled into the woods, later stealing a car and ditching it in Massachusetts. He was apprehended two days later.