Crime & Safety

Jury Finds Man Guilty of Drugging Women, Not Guilty of Rape

Aaron Bonds now faces up to 7 years in state prison.

A Rockingham County Superior Court jury found a Dover man guilty last week of drugging three women, but not guilty of rape, according to the Union Leader.

Aaron Bonds, 45, was indicted in 2011 by a Rockingham County grand jury on 11 charges related to a July 2011 incident where police say he drugged three women and sexually assaulted one of them in a Portsmouth apartment. Bonds was working as a cook at a Portsmouth restaurant at the time.

The Union Leader said Bonds now faces up to 7 years in state prison on the drug convictions. He is being held pending sentencing.

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