NH man who held up Clinton campaign office flees

DOVER, N.H. –- New Hampshire authorities said the man who took several hostages inside a Hillary Clinton campaign office in 2007 is now on the run.

On Tuesday morning, police said he cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet.

Leeland Eisenberg had been out of jail for just one day. He had been behind bars for the last few weeks for a probation violation after he was convicted of taking hostages at Hillary Clinton’s headquarters in Rochester, N.H. in 2007.

He took several people hostage after outfitting himself with a device that looked like a bomb but was made out of road flares.

Authorities are concerned not just because of Eisenberg’s criminal history, but because he has a mental health history as well.

He was first released on probation last November after spending two years in prison. Since then, he has been in and out of jail for two separate probation violations.

When a judge sent him back to a halfway house on Monday, he was told it was his last chance.

“My position from the very get-go is that he should be back in a state prison. I argued that vigorously to the court...With all due respect to the court, the court did not agree with me. We fashioned this plan based on the court’s guidance, hoping it would do the trick. Obviously, Mr. Eisenberg did not take the court’s admonishment to heart,” said Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi.

He is believed to have gotten into a green SUV after cutting off his monitoring device.

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