Bauer gets at least seven years in N.H. robbery

Ronald Bauer

BRENTWOOD, N.H. - Lebanon home invasion shooting suspect Ronald Bauer was sentenced to at least seven years in a New Hampshire prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to a Portsmouth, N.H., armed robbery last January.
Bauer, who is alleged to have shot a Lebanon man in his Second Street home four days before the Portsmouth robbery, has yet to face a Maine judge on those charges as he will likely be incarcerated in New Hampshire for years to come.
Bauer is also facing charges in the armed robbery last December of a Somersworth, N.H., gas station.
Bauer was indicted in April by a York County grand jury in the Lebanon shooting, which left the homeowner paralyzed from the mid-chest down.
Bauer has ties to the Milton area and grew up in Dover.
Among charges he still faces is a special felony for being a career criminal, which could keep the 48-year-old Bauer in jail for up to 40 years.

In the Lebanon shooting, Bauer is said to have entered the home to steal money and other items to fuel his drug habit, then shot the homeowner who confronted him as he returned home for lunch.
Bauer is then alleged to have stolen the man’s car and driven it to a Rochester shopping plaza where he ditched it and made his getaway with girlfriend Susan Gutierrez in her vehicle.
The two were arrested in Somersworth about a week later. Interviews subsequent to the arrest led to the charges in the Somersworth gas station robbery, police said.
Meanwhile, Gutierrez, 48, charged as an accomplice in the Lebanon shooting, remains in York County jail in Alfred where her bail is set at $400,000.