Nashua man charged with felony after fleeing Brookline crash

BROOKLINE– A 20-year-old Nashua man was arrested early Tuesday after crashing his car on Route 13 and fleeing the scene. Neil Jalbert, of 8 Pelham Street in Nashua, is charged with conduct after an accident, transporting alcohol as a minor, reckless driving, possession of alcohol by a minor and a felony count of witness tampering. The witness tampering charge alleges Jalbert tried to keep the owner of the car from talking to police. Brookline police Chief William Quigley III said the single-vehicle crash was first reported just before midnight Monday, and occurred on Route 13 at the intersection with Townsend Hill Road. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the car Jalbert had been driving had gone off the road, over a stone wall and into some trees. Jalbert, however, was not on the scene. Officers were able to identify the registered owner of the vehicle as a Milford resident and contacted the owner, Quigley said. When the officer was on the phone with the car’s owner, he said, Jalbert could allegedly be heard in the background asking the owner not to talk to police. Police tracked Jalbert to the home of the car owner and arrested him around 1:30 a.m.