Farmington man gets 2 years in home invastion

Daniel Springer (Rochester Police photos)

DOVER, N.H. – A Farmington man who took part in a Rochester home invasion last June was sentenced to two to five years in prison earlier this week in Strafford County Superior Court.

Daniel Springer, 23, of Farmington, was with an accomplice, Johnathan Bolz, 33, of East Rochester, when together they forced their way into a wheelchair-bound Rochester man’s residence on Portland Street and demanded drugs.

Springer used an air soft pistol, which are replicas of real guns and designed to be nonlethal, in the robbery.

After searching the house and finding prescription painkillers the duo left, but were later arrested.

Johnathan Bolz

Springer’s plea agreement to a charge of armed robbery will net him at least one year in jail, with the other suspended if he is admitted into the county’s drug court program.

Bolz is serving a year in jail in connection with the case, having pleaded guilty to felony robbery earlier in the spring.