Robber who shot Lebanon man gets 30 years

Ronald Bauer

ALFRED, Maine - Career criminal Ronald Bauer, who told a Lebanon man "Cry me a river" when he asked for help after being shot by Bauer and left to die last year, was sentenced to 30 years in a Maine prison on Tuesday.
The sentence was handed down by York County Justice Fritzsche and will be served consecutively to the sentences he is presently serving in New Hampshire for armed robbery, being an armed career criminal and a host of other charges in connection with a slew of armed convenience store heists he carried out in the months preceding the Lebanon shooting.

Bauer, 49, formerly of 96 Central St., Farmington, but who also had ties to Milton, has a minimum release date in New Hampshire of 2028 after which his Maine sentences will begin.

Richard Potorski had returned to his Lebanon home from work to eat lunch when he surprised Ronald Bauer robbing his Second Street house on Jan. 8, 2013.

"What are you doing here?" Bauer said, according to court records. Potorski responded: "I live here."

Susan Gutierrez

The defendant, who was a stranger to Potorski, then raised a gun and shot Potorski, severing his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed. Bauer than stole his cell phone, some jewelry and his car which he drove 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.
Gutierrez, 49, was charged as an accomplice in the Lebanon shooting. She remains in York County jail in Alfred where her bail is set at $400,000 while awaiting trial.

The two are said to have planned the robbery to feed their drug habits.