PARIS – Three New Hampshire men were indicted Aug. 12 on multiple charges in connection with an assault and robbery in Fryeburg last month.
Thomas G. Bellen, 31, of Bartlett; Benjamin J. Wheeler, 26, of North Conway; and Jeremy A. Ferren, 25, of Conway, were each charged by an Oxford County grand jury with robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, aggravated criminal mischief and assault.
Bellen and Wheeler were each additionally charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
The indictment stated that Bellen was convicted of theft on Sept. 30, 1992, in Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee, N.H. Wheeler was convicted of burglary on July 6, 1998, in South Carolina.
Bellen was also charged with obstructing the report of a crime or injury.
All charges except assault and obstruction are felonies.
According to the indictment, the trio is alleged to have burglarized a home on July 25, then robbed and assaulted the resident with a shotgun and a bedpost.
The vandalism charges allege that the three men damaged or destroyed a door, window, walls, bed and the person’s shotgun, doing more than $2,000 damage.
The men are also charged with assaulting another person on the same date in Fryeburg.
They are expected to be arraigned in September in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris.
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