Staff reports 9:30 a.m.
Friday, May 1, 2026 9:31 am
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DOVER - A Manchester man was sentenced on Wednesday in a brutal assault that occurred at a Central Avenue address last May.
Jason Anthoney Furnari, 45, of Rimmon Street, Manchester, will spend six to 12-years in a New Hampshire state prison for strangling the victim, an estranged domestic partner, on May 31. 2025.
He also got four to 10 years for criminal threatening and theft by unauthorized taking, with both of those sentences suspended for 10 years from the day of his release.
A jury trial in February also found him guilty of simple assault, but that charge did not figure in the sentencing.
Police got involved around 10:40 p.m. on May 31 when they got a 911 call from the victim who "yelled that a man was attempting to hurt her," according to a Dover Police affidavit.
Police arrived at the Central Avenue address and were setting up a perimeter around the building when the female ran outside shaking and crying.
She told a Dover Officer Sobel that her ex-boyfriend, Jason Furnari had been using her vehicle for about a week and she had been asking for it back. She explained he was supposed to stop by and return it that night."
She said that once she opened the door for him, "Furnari grabbed her by the throat, applying force where she could no longer breathe, while also pushing her body against the washer/dryer to where her head and neck hit the washer/dryer."
According to the affidavit, Furnari then grabbed her iPhone and demanded the passcode, which she refused to give.
As he became more enraged, "he grabbed a large metal thermos mug, raised it above her, threatened to kill her and demanded she perform a sex act," the affidavit states.
She refused, but ended up giving him the passcode and he finally left, after which she ran out to meet police.
Not long after a BOLO was issued on her vehicle and Furnari was picked up soon after by a Candia police officer.