Former Strafford County sheriff Mark Brave hit with five additional indictments

Former Strafford County Sheriff Mark Brave in initial mugshot taken at State Police Troop A headquarters in Epping

BRENTWOOD - Disgraced former Strafford County Sheriff Mark Brave has been hit with four new indictments from a Rockingham County grand jury that charge him with lying.
Brave, , of Tewksbury, Mass., was formally charged with two counts of class B felony Perjury and three class A misdemeanors including two counts of False Swearing and one count of Unsworn Falsification.
Class B felonies are punishable by up to 3.5-7 years in state prison and a fine of up to $4,000. Class A misdemeanors are punishable by up to 12 months in a house of corrections and a fine of up to $2,000.
These new indictments are in addition to eight felony indictments returned by a Strafford County Grand Jury in 2023.
In those indictments, Brave, who was elected as New Hampshire's first black sheriff in 2020 and re-elected in 2022, stands charged with one count of theft by deception (a class A felony) for stealing over $1,500 in Strafford County funds for credit-card reimbursements through deception; two counts of falsifying physical evidence (both class B felonies): one for submitting false reimbursement justifications, and one for altering a document submitted for reimbursement; and five counts of perjury (all class B felonies) for lying in his testimony before the Strafford County Grand Jury during the course of the investigation.
Brave was initially arrested and charged on Aug. 17, 2023.
He resigned from his sheriff's position in December, prompting prosecutors to allow him to remain free on bail while awaiting trial.
Brave, a Democrat, is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from Strafford County by taking multiple trips to fictitious events, mostly for the purpose of romantic liaisons with multiple women. During these trips he racked up $19,000 of charges on his county-issued credit card.