Lebanon suspect in Farmington home invasion case indicted

Matthew Roaf

  LEBANON - A Lebanon man who was shot as he and two accomplices allegedly attempted to carry out an armed home invasion in Farmington in January has been indictment by a Strafford County grand jury.

  Matthew Roaf, 21, of 33 Second St., was indicted this month on the charges of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.

    Tom Velardi, County Attorney for Strafford County, has said the man who shot Roaf and one of the other intruders will not face any criminal liability in the case because the shooting was “justifiable under the circumstances.” 

   Roaf turned himself into police several days after the shooting after being treated for a single gunshot wound to the torso at a Boston hospital. He was shot by a .22-caliber rifle, Velardi said.

  Both charges facing Roaf are Class A felonies punishable by up to 7 ½-15 years in prison.

. Stephen Roy, 24, of Lords Court, Somersworth, and Joshua Dionne, 27, of Market Street, North Berwick, have also been charged.

   It is alleged that on Jan. 11 Dionne waited in a vehicle outside, while Roaf and Roy, both wearing masks, entered a Meetinghouse Hill Road residence while demanding drugs and money. Roy allegedly used a machete to threaten the two occupants. 

   Velardi said the man who did the shooting was actually outside the home, heard the commotion, then came in and confronted the intruders after which the shots were fired.

  Roy was treated at York Hospital for a gunshot wound to the head.

An indictment is not an indication of guilt, only that the grand jury found sufficient evidence for a trial to move forward.