21-04-2025
Veteran homicide prosecutor Strelzin may be headed back to AG's office
Veteran homicide prosecutor Jeffery Strelzin could soon be returning to the Attorney General's Office.
Attorney General John Formella is asking the Executive Council to approve hiring Strelzin as an assistant attorney general, effective upon approval or June 13, whichever comes first.
The request submitted by James Boffetti — the deputy New Hampshire attorney general, on behalf of Formella — appears on the agenda for Wednesday's meeting of the Governor and Executive Council, set for 10 a.m. at the State House.
Strelzin previously worked for the Attorney General's Office for 22 years before departing in 2023 for a post in the U.S. Attorney's Office working for Jane Young, who resigned her position on Jan. 17.
Strelzin was paid $121,000 as an associate attorney general in 2022, according to salary information on the New Hampshire website. The new position would pay an annual salary of $123,000.
The new position would be for a term ending Sept. 30, 2025.
For 22 years, Strelzin handled some of the state's biggest homicide prosecutions.
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Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin speaks to the media following a previous court hearing for Katlyn Marin, who was recently convicted of murdering her daughter, Brielle Gage.
He prosecuted Manchester cop killer Michael Addison, who remains on death row since his 2008 sentence. Other prosecutions include the 2009 thrill-killing of Kimberly Cates in Mont Vernon in front of her daughter; the torture-murders of young men in the mid-2000s by Sheila Labarre; the 2003 murder of the Gehring children by their father; and the exhaustive, groundbreaking investigation involving the Bear Brook cold-case murders.
Strelzin oversaw the Division of Public Protection, which involved the criminal bureau, consumer protection, environmental protection, Medicaid fraud, the Drug Task Force, prosecution of public officials and the YDC prosecution.
Strelzin, a Concord resident, earned his Associate of Science in Business Administration from New Hampshire Technical Institute in 1985, Bachelor of Science in Management from Keene State College in 1986, and his Juris Doctorate from the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly the Franklin Pierce Law Center) in 1991.
After graduating law school, he was a judicial clerk for the New Hampshire Superior Court from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, he joined Bossie, Kelly, Hodes & Buckley, P.A., where he practiced as an associate attorney focused primarily on criminal defense.
He joined the Merrimack County Attorney's Office in 1997, where he prosecuted a variety of criminal cases in the circuit and superior courts. He began a 22-year career at the New Hampshire Department of Justice in 2001 — the first three years as an attorney and assistant attorney general in the Criminal Justice Bureau. He was promoted to senior assistant attorney general and chief of the Homicide Unit in 2004.
In 2018, Strelzin was promoted to associate attorney general and director of the Division of Public Protection, where he was responsible for overseeing the work of the Criminal Justice Bureau, Environmental Protection Bureau, and Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau.
In his request, Formella writes that if Strelzin's appointment is approved he will be 'responsible for establishing and implementing a state-wide training program for prosecutors as well as developing and conducting training on relevant topics.'
