A 47-year-old Concord man was arrested on Tuesday on multiple charges of child sexual assault and producing child sexual abuse images, police said. 

Joshua Pincoske is accused of engaging in sexual activity with several girls under the age of 16 over a period of time and creating child sexual abuse videos or photos.

Police obtained a search warrant last Wednesday and seized Pincoske’s phones and laptop, which showed hundreds of images and videos of Pincoske involved in sexual acts with young-looking women and girls, according to court documents.  

Police said they identified one of the victims who was 14 and 15 years old when she was sexually abused  by Pincoske in his car in parking lots around Concord, and inside his home on South Spring Street. During several of the videos he told her to refer to him as “Daddy,” including once on her 15th birthday. 

“It should be further noted that there are numerous additional sexual photos/videos involving as-yet-unidentified female parties who may or may not be juveniles,” police wrote in the arrest warrant.

Pincoske, who faces 55 felony counts, is being held at the Merrimack County House of Corrections in Boscawen on preventative detention. “The defendant has the means to leave the country to elude prosecution,” Bail Commissioner Nancy Ringland wrote in a bail order Tuesday. 

Pincoske worked as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team at Colby-Sawyer College from 1997 until 2020, and resumed the position as a volunteer this season. In a statement on Wednesday, the college announced that it had rescinded his status as a volunteer coach immediately.

“During his time as volunteer and employee at the college, no complaints involving Mr. Pincoske were filed, nor did he exhibit signs that would suggest involvement in the type of behavior that led to his arrest. Colby-Sawyer extends its deepest condolences to the victims of the crimes Mr. Pincoske is accused of committing,” the statement said. 

The Farmington Police Department began investigating Pincoske in December 2020 after two 17-year-old girls reported that he had paid them for explicit sexual images and sexual acts in his car, according to the arrest warrant written by Concord Police Detective Brendan Ryder. 

The arrest warrant states that in an interview with Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office Detective Kevin Furlong and Farmington Police Department Sergeant Antoinette Webster, Pincoske admitted to soliciting sexual images and touching the two Farmington girls in his car, but denied knowing that they were under the age of 18.

Farmington Police, Concord Police, Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office and members of the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant at Pincoske’s home on Feb. 2.

Detectives reviewed a laptop and two smartphones and found dozens of images and videos that revealed a fourth victim who was 14 years old when photographed and touched by Pincoske.

During the search, police also found pairs of women’s underwear in Pincoske’s car – a dark blue Toyota Camry with the license plate “KNICKS” – inside a Colby-Sawyer duffel bag, that he claimed belonged to an adult woman whose photos were also found on his devices.

The two Concord girls were identified by detectives in part by their involvement with youth sports, including one who was wearing a middle school T-Shirt in several of the photos. “This adds credibility to the belief that Joshua was fully aware of the girl’s age,” Ryder wrote in court documents. 

Police also obtained Kik Messenger conversations between Pincoske and another man in early 2022 where he discussed his attraction to girls between 12 and 16 and forwarded the man a sexual image of an unidentified girl that he said was 15. 

Pincoske also communicated with a fifth girl between August 2018 and January 2022, just three days before police searched his home. Ryder wrote that those messages documented a process of “grooming” and indicated that the two had exchanged explicit images, but the arrest warrant did not include charges related to that girl. 

“It should be noted that the review of data from the above devices was preliminary in nature,” the arrest warrant states. Ryder also wrote that there were more sexual images and videos of unidentified women who could be minors. 

During his arraignment Wednesday, defense lawyer Peter McGrath, argued that Pincoske was “significantly overcharged,” saying that many of the counts refer to one event. He also asked that Pincoske be released from jail and suggested home confinement with an ankle monitor because he has no prior criminal record and was not a flight risk.

Judge Andrew Schulman agreed to keep Pincoske jailed for now.

(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.)

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