Ex-Portsmouth ER Doctor Charged in Domestic Violence Assault

A prominent local doctor and former police officer is scheduled to plead guilty in a domestic assault case, though the charges are still being negotiated by prosecutors and the defense.

Harry Wallus, a former Portsmouth Regional Hospital physician and Greenland police officer, is facing two felony second-degree assault charges and seven misdemeanors after police say he strangled his girlfriend and broke two of her ribs in 2022.

He pleaded not guilty earlier this year, but Thursday, July 20, his attorney Tom Reid told a Rockingham Superior Court judge that a plea deal was in the works.