A 39-year-old Nashua man who vanished after a traffic stop turned up illegal guns and drugs was captured Friday morning at a McDonald's in Rome, New York, ending a search that stretched across two states for months. Jacob Reznikow had been wanted in New Hampshire since he skipped a court appearance tied to a June DUI arrest, and federal agents say he was finally run down roughly 240 miles from home.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, members of its New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force took Reznikow into custody without incident on October 9, 2026, after Nashua police requested assistance in late June. The arrest capped a saga that began with a seemingly ordinary DUI stop on June 10, 2026 — one that spiraled into a felony weapons and drug case once officers searched his seized vehicle. As reported by NBC Boston, Reznikow had been wanted in New Hampshire for months before investigators tracked him to Rome, a small city near Syracuse.
A Traffic Stop That Escalated Fast
Officials say what officers found inside Reznikow's vehicle after the June traffic stop led directly to the drug and gun charges that would define the case, per NBC Boston's reporting. The discovery carried extra legal weight because Reznikow was legally barred from possessing any firearms at the time, a restriction tied to a March 2021 Nashua conviction for selling controlled drugs, according to the Marshals Service. When he failed to appear for his arraignment on the DUI charge in late June, the case escalated from a local matter into a multi-agency manhunt.
Before he disappeared, Reznikow also fled from police who were attempting to take him into custody, and that flight caused damage, NBC Boston reported. Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke said repeated evasion by someone facing serious firearms and drug charges raises significant public safety concerns, and he expressed appreciation for the team that ultimately caught him, according to the station's report.
Task Force Closed In Across State Lines
New Hampshire State Police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives both assisted the task force searching for Reznikow, per the same NBC Boston account. That search drew on the New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force, a body headquartered at the Marshals Service office in Concord that has coordinated federal, state, county, and local law enforcement resources across all ten New Hampshire counties since it was formed in 2002, according to the agency.
Acting U.S. Marshal for the District of New Hampshire Katherine Burns said the arrest shows fugitives “cannot evade accountability simply by crossing state lines,” the Marshals Service reported. The case also fits into a broader state enforcement push: New Hampshire's state-funded Operation Granite Shield grant program funded 30 law enforcement agencies statewide in fiscal year 2025 to target drug distribution networks, according to a report from Avenues Recovery. Reznikow himself was previously arrested during a Granite Shield sweep in May 2019, when he was charged in Nashua with felony sale of a controlled drug, per Patch.
A Long History of Run-Ins With Police
Reznikow's record of contact with law enforcement in New England stretches back more than two decades. In June 2014, he was arrested in Londonderry on charges of driving while intoxicated, reckless conduct, assault, and criminal mischief after allegedly driving a Honda van recklessly in Merrimack and nearly striking a bystander, Patch reported at the time. Years earlier, in October 2005, an 18-year-old Reznikow was charged in Framingham, Massachusetts, with nighttime breaking and entering, grand larceny over $250, and malicious destruction of property following a break-in at Framingham High School that involved $103,000 in stolen laptops and calculators, according to A Better Framingham.
Reznikow appeared in a New York court on Saturday facing a fugitive-from-justice charge, NBC Boston reported, and he is due for an extradition hearing Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney available to speak to the charges, per the station's account. Any extradition proceeding would unfold under Article 570 of the New York Criminal Procedure Law, the state's Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, which governs how out-of-state fugitives are detained and transferred before trial, according to the New York State Senate.
