Overview
- Law enforcement took 29-year-old Daquhan Cromer into custody in Lowell after actionable tips led Massachusetts State Police and the U.S. Marshals to his location.
- Cromer fled a New Hampshire transitional housing unit last December while serving a sentence for simple assault and had been on escape status since then.
- Salem authorities issued a shelter-in-place and the Salem School District placed three schools on lockdown during the search, and those precautions were lifted after the arrest.
- He faces multiple warrants across jurisdictions including aggravated assault on a child in Massachusetts and assault with a dangerous weapon in Lowell.
- Cromer was arraigned in Lowell District Court and is being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing set for Nov. 2, 2026, which will determine whether he remains detained.