Three out-of-state men who allegedly kidnapped a Waterboro man after threatening that man and two other people with a blowtorch were indicted this week on a slew of charges in connection with the January incident.

The trio – Angel Alicea, 25, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, and Samuel Hilton, 24, and Anyheuris Mota-Speing, 24, both of Lawrence, Massachusetts – allegedly drove to a home on Northeast Road in Waterboro in an attempt to steal marijuana. They were arrested after a victim they allegedly kidnapped escaped from their car in Newfield and yelled for help.

Alicea, Hilton and Mota-Speing were under the apparent misconception that there was a large amount of marijuana in the house, York County Sheriff Bill King said in January. The men became angry when they were told there was no marijuana and ordered the three victims to lie on the floor, where they were bound with duct tape while the intruders searched the house, King said.

When one victim resisted, one intruder struck him in the head with a gun, according to police. One victim was dragged down a flight of stairs and all were told they would be burned with a blowtorch if they did not reveal where their stash of marijuana was hidden, police said.

“One of the victims concocted a story that the marijuana was in the possession of an ‘associate’ and pointed to a random vehicle that was passing the house,” King said in January. “The quick-thinking victim told the men the stash of marijuana was in the vehicle that was traveling down the road.”

Alicea, Hilton and Mota-Speing rushed to their car – forcing one victim to come with them – while they tried to chase down the passing car, King said. The random car drove to Newfield before the suspects’ car caught up to it. When the cars slowed, the victim jumped out and started yelling for help, he said.

Alicea and Mota-Speing were indicted this week by a York County grand jury on 13 charges: three counts of robbery with physical force (Class A), three counts of kidnapping (Class A), three counts of criminal threatening with a weapon (Class C), three counts of terrorizing with a weapon (Class C) and one count of conspiracy (Class B).

Hilton was indicted on nine charges: three counts of robbery with physical force (Class A), three counts of kidnapping (Class A), one count of criminal threatening with a weapon (Class C), one count of terrorizing with a weapon (Class C) and one count of conspiracy (Class B).

They face up to 30 years in prison for the Class A charges, up to 10 years in prison for the Class B charges and up to five years in prison for the Class C charges.

None of the victims in the incident were injured, according to police.

Police say a man from Maine who led officers on a high-speed chase in North Carolina and South Carolina, carjacked a vehicle and rammed police cruisers is facing multiple criminal charges.

WSPA-TV in South Carolina reported that police began pursing a car driven by Sayer Anthony-Spang Tamiso, 27, of Hampden, Maine, when he was pulled over Wednesday in Polk County, North Carolina.

Tamiso sped off, weaving in out of traffic and reaching speeds of 115 mph, police said. He crashed his car in South Carolina and ran into a store called True Timber, where he carjacked an employee’s vehicle at gunpoint.

The TV station said True Timber employees barricaded themselves in their offices, sending text messages and leaving voicemails for loved ones.

The chase ended a short while later in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, when Tamiso rammed four police cruisers with the second getaway car. Four cruisers were damaged and one deputy was taken to a hospital for treatment of a back injury.

The television station reported that Tamiso is charged with armed robbery and failure to stop, with other charges pending.

Bangor police say a 12-year-old boy who stole a school bus has been charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and driving without a license.

Sgt. Tim Cotton posted a lengthy press release and video of the boy’s short-lived joyride on the Bangor Police Department’s Facebook page. Police said Tuesday’s bus ride lasted no more than a half-mile.

A motorist, John W. St. Germain III, and his girlfriend followed the blue bus and captured the boy’s erratic driving on their phone camera. They followed the bus, and when it stopped, Germain jumped out of his car.

“John ran up to the swinging bus doors and took control of the blue, rolling missile of destruction,” Cotton said in the release. “The young man was taken into custody and John continued on his way. He probably saved much property damage and even injury or death to an innocent driver.”

The bus was stolen from a bus depot in Bangor that is operated by Cyr Bus Lines. Bangor police do not know how the boy started the bus.

A New York man and a Veazie woman were arrested at a Bangor motel for allegedly selling oxycodone pills, according to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Found Thursday in a room at the Comfort Inn on Bangor Mall Boulevard were 260 30-milligram oxycodone pills and about $40,000 in cash, the MDEA said. Arrested were Steve “Swift” Abreau, 25, of the Bronx, New York, and Meredith Perrone, 32, of Veazie. Both are charged with Class B trafficking in scheduled drugs.

Perrone’s bail was set at $25,000. Abreau’s bail was set at $70,000. Both were expected to appear Friday in Bangor Unified Court.

The arrests followed reports of suspected drug activity after witnesses saw many people coming and going from the hotel room. Police conducted an undercover buy before the arrests.

A Somerset County man pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of possession of child pornography.

Steven Strang Jr., 37, of Athens appeared in U.S. District Court in Bangor before Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. and waived his right to have the case against him presented to a grand jury.

Strang came under investigation on June 15, 2015, when a federal agent from the Department of Homeland Security was able to download three child pornography files being offered online via Strang’s computer, according to a prosecution document filed with the court.

“When agents came to the defendant’s residence, they discovered the defendant’s computer, with internal hard drive, containing dozens of video files depicting child pornography. All of these videos showed actual children being sexually abused or exploited, and many of the videos showed the sexual abuse of actual prepubescent children under the age of 12,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Ruge wrote in the prosecution document.

The judge ordered Strang to be taken into the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service after pleading guilty.

Strang’s sentencing date was not immediately available. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of as much as $250,000.

Portland police have charged a 23-year-old Waterboro man with terrorizing a 10-year-old boy after he allegedly ordered the child to get into his truck Thursday afternoon on Ocean Avenue.

Police said the boy was walking home on Ocean when he saw a suspicious pickup truck. The passenger in the truck, later identified as Christopher Bennett, ordered the child into the vehicle, but the boy instead dropped his backpack and ran away crying.

A passing motorist saw the encounter and stopped the boy to find help. Someone else flagged down a police officer, who located the truck and stopped it on Forest Avenue.

In addition to Bennett, the driver of the truck, 26-year-old Nathan Desfosses of Shapleigh, was charged with operating after his license was suspended. Bennett also was charged with violating his bail conditions.

Both men have criminal records in Maine for felony convictions for violent crimes.

Bennett had been charged with assault and assaulting a police officer. Desfosses has been charged in the past with eluding an officer, operating under the influence, aggravated assault, domestic violence and other crimes, according to his criminal history.

AUGUSTA — A Fairfield man who led police on a high-speed chase through Waterville more than a year ago was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison after pleading guilty to a number of driving offenses.

Matthew J. Davidson, 30, pleaded guilty in the Capital Judicial Center to eluding an officer, operating after suspension/revocation, refusing to submit to arrest or detention, physical force, unlawful possession of drugs and violating conditions of release. The offenses occurred April 6, 2015, in Waterville.

A second charge of refusing to submit to arrest and a charge of motor vehicle speeding 30-plus mph over the limit were dismissed.

Davidson was arrested April 14 on five warrants after police tackled him inside a Front Street business.

Davidson also was ordered to pay $900 in fines as a result of his convictions.

The Old Orchard Beach fire chief – who has worked previously at numerous fire departments in Maine and elsewhere in New England and the U.S. – was charged with arson early Saturday for allegedly setting the April 15 fire that burned 42 acres of the Jones Creek Marsh and forced the evacuation of a nearby condominium complex.

Fire Chief Ricky Plummer was arrested at 2 a.m. Saturday at his mother-in-law’s house in Scarborough. He was still being held Saturday night at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland. Bail was set at $10,000.

Fires that took place in other towns where Plummer served as chief are also being investigated, a state official said.

A dozen investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Maine Forest Service went to Old Orchard Beach on Friday afternoon with search warrants and seized computers at the fire station and in Plummer’s town-owned car, as well as his cellphone, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Investigators interviewed Plummer and arrested him after consulting with the York County District Attorney’s Office.

Plummer, 59, has been the fire chief in Old Orchard Beach since 2014. His annual salary is $70,500.

The four-alarm fire on April 15 erupted in a marsh around the Little River. As more than 100 firefighters worked to put out the blaze, residents of the Davenport condo complex were evacuated. Flames came within 100 feet of the buildings.

No one was injured.

As the flames neared the complex, Plummer told reporters, firefighters nearly had to pull out of the area.

“Flames were 20 to 30 feet high, just a wall of fire and heat,” Plummer said at the time. “It could have been a lot worse. It could have burned this condominium down.”

Before coming to Old Orchard Beach in late 2014, Plummer had been the fire chief in North Yarmouth for about two years.

He has been a firefighter since 1974, according to an article he wrote for the Albemarle County Fire & Rescue Department in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was hired as assistant chief of operations in 2004.

He has also worked at fire departments in Arundel, Biddeford, Standish, North Berwick and Gray; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Marlborough, Massachusetts; and Cocoa, Florida.

McCausland said investigators will review fires that took place during his tenure as fire chief in other communities where he worked.

The State Fire Marshal’s Office determined a fire that destroyed the vacant 36-room Americana Motel in Old Orchard Beach on Jan. 20, 2015, was arson. No one was hurt in the fire at the building, which was slated for demolition.
The Fire Marshal’s Office said severe damage prevented investigators from identifying the cause of a fire that destroyed Wescustogo Hall, a North Yarmouth landmark next to the fire station, on Aug. 30, 2013, when Plummer was the town’s fire chief. Several firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion during the fire.

Gregory A. Payson, North Yarmouth’s fire chief, said in a statement Saturday that there were no unresolved fires in town from the time when Plummer was the chief there. Payson said in a telephone interview that the Wescustogo fire predated his time in town, but there’s no “active investigation” into the blaze.

In his statement, Payson also expressed sympathy for the citizens and firefighters in Old Orchard Beach and asked people to reserve judgment until the justice system does “the work it was designed to do.”

ALMOST NEVER AN ISOLATED EVENT

McCausland, who also is spokesman for the State Fire Marshal’s Office, said Saturday that past arson arrests of firefighters have involved volunteer firefighters.

“I can’t remember a time when a chief of a major fire department has been charged with arson,” he said.

Two experts who have studied the phenomenon of firefighters who set fires said the incidents are almost never isolated and are not that rare.

“It’s more common than we would like to believe,” said John K. Murphy, a retired deputy fire chief and lawyer in North Bend, Oregon, who specializes in legal cases involving fire departments and firefighters.

Murphy said the cases he’s seen usually involve young firefighters who set fires to prove their mettle. Other cases involve firefighters looking for monetary rewards, like forest rangers who are paid based on the number of fires they fight, firefighters looking for overtime, or firefighters looking to justify their salaries.

The arsonists, he said, often exhibit a fascination with fires – the same curiosity that led them to firefighting as a profession also leads them to set fires.

Such people never outgrew a youthful fixation on fires, said Marcel Chappuis, a clinical psychologist who set up a program to treat juvenile firestarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Chappuis said larger professional departments generally include psychological exams as part of their hiring process, in part to screen out those who might be predisposed to set fires, as well as to identify other red flags, such as an inability to get along with others, difficulty dealing with stress, or substance abuse issues.

Chappuis said young children, generally 5 to 10 years old, have a natural curiosity about fires, but anger issues lead some to actually set fires. Most children outgrow that fascination, he said, unless they have some underlying psychological issues that drive them to continue to start fires as they get older. But, echoing Murphy, he said there are cases where firefighting arsonists are driven by financial motives.

He said there are usually two to three cases a month, nationally, in which firefighters are accused of setting fires. In 90 percent of those cases, he said, the arsonists have set more than one fire.

SURPRISE IN OLD ORCHARD BEACH

Plummer grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and once served as town manager in Milton, New Hampshire.

According to the article he wrote, he served on the board of directors of the New Hampshire Chiefs and the New Hampshire Hazardous Materials Team, and was appointed by then New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen to the New Hampshire Fire Commission.

Town officials and others who know Plummer expressed surprise at the arrest. Some said they hoped there is another explanation for the cause of the marsh fire.

Old Orchard Beach town councilors were informed of the arrest Saturday morning by Town Manager Larry Mead.

“We are still trying to wrap our heads around it now,” said Joe Thornton, the council’s vice chairman.

Thornton said the town is having to handle both the criminal issue of Plummer’s arrest and the personnel issues.

At this point Mead is heading the department, Thornton said.

Town Councilor Michael Tousignant declined to comment except to say that what he knows is very vague.

“I just know that it happened,” said Tousignant.

Plummer has been placed on administrative leave until further notice, Mead said in a written statement.

“I want to reassure the residents of Old Orchard Beach that the public safety needs of the town will continue to be fully served,” Mead said.

He said the department is now under the direction of the command staff.

“They will continue to serve and respond around the clock seven days a week to provide fire and rescue services to the people of Old Orchard Beach,” Mead wrote.

Mead said the town will not comment further on the matter.

Maine Forest Rangers sent out a message on Twitter about the arrest Saturday morning.

“Forest Ranger investigators have been working hard on this case since the day of the fire. Will continue to do so,” the message said.

Alex Carr, chairman of the North Yarmouth Select Board, said he is personally stunned by the arrest of Plummer and questioned why a man who has more than 40 years of experience would set a fire intentionally at this point in his career.

“The stuff you read about firefighters (who intentionally set fires) is that normally they are inexperienced and looking for attention. I certainly hope there is some other explanation,” Carr said.

Carr said Plummer was responsible for changing the North Yarmouth Fire Rescue Department from a volunteer operation to a modern department with trained part-time professionals. He said most of the department members were hired by Plummer, who obtained a $100,000 grant to pay for recruitment and training of new members.

Carr said Plummer left North Yarmouth for Old Orchard Beach to work closer to his family and for what Carr said was a better deal.

Plummer owns a home in Biddeford. McCausland said that Plummer split his time between the Biddeford house and his mother-in-law’s house.

McCausland said the arrest took place at 2 a.m. Saturday because that was when investigators were able to pinpoint Plummer’s location. He said the large number of people involved in the investigation points to the seriousness of the crime.

Plummer and his wife, Liz, have four children and two grandchildren, according to Plummer’s article. His brother, Perry Plummer, is a retired Dover, New Hampshire, fire chief who now heads New Hampshire’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management agency.

The Maine Attorney General’s Office is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Presque Isle.

A local police officer shot and wounded Derek J. Sam, 29, of Presque Isle after Sam approached him wielding a knife Saturday evening, Presque Island police said in a news release.

The incident began at 5:54 p.m. when police received reports about a man acting suspiciously near the McDonald’s restaurant on Main Street. The caller told police that the man appeared to be bleeding.

Officer Lucas Hafford responded and made contact with Sam in a parking lot near 631 Main St.

When Hafford ordered Sam to put down a knife he was holding, Sam refused to comply. Hafford used his Taser in an effort to prevent him from approaching him, but the device failed to stop Sam from “aggressively” advancing on the officer, according to news release.

After giving him several more commands to drop the knife, Hafford shot and wounded Sam, police said. Sam was initially taken to The Aroostook Medical Center for treatment before being flown to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Sam’s condition was not available Sunday night.

The Maine Attorney General’s Office is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Presque Isle.

A local police officer shot and wounded Derek J. Sam, 29, after Sam approached him wielding a knife Saturday evening, WCSH-TV reported.

Officer Lucas Hafford used a Taser in an effort to subdue Sam, but the device proved to be ineffective, the Portland television station reported.

After refusing commands to drop the knife, Hafford shot Sam.

The incident took place around 6 p.m. Saturday.

Nearly a year before he allegedly killed a 52-year-old Alfred woman in New Port Richey, Florida, Timothy F. Johnson told another woman he wanted to rape and kill her before he attempted to act on the fantasy, the woman said.

On multiple occasions since the summer of 2015, Johnson told Sandra Cartwright, 47, a roommate of Johnson’s brother, about his urges to harm her, Cartwright said in a telephone interview. Then on Jan. 17 this year, Cartwright awoke to find Johnson, 25, in her home, brandishing a butcher knife, an attack she escaped only because another man staying with her that night fled to get help.

“He told me on one more occasion how he wanted to rape and mutilate me,” Cartwright said. “Tim and I had conversations about his thoughts. Tim knew he was sick. And I completely think he had no control over it.”

Johnson was charged with two counts of aggravated assault in that attack, but because Cartwright did not speak with prosecutors within 30 days of the crime, he was released on Feb. 19. Charges were filed a few days later, but Johnson was already back on the street. A few weeks later in March, Johnson met a woman from Maine who was in Florida for vacation: Judith Therianos.

Three people close to Johnson, including Cartwright and Johnson’s twin brother, Jarred, each gave chilling accounts of how Johnson’s alcoholism and violent tendencies toward women escalated in the last two years before he was charged in the brutal killing of Therianos, who authorities believe died on March 13 after a sexual encounter with Johnson.

Johnson’s family members and friends spoke of the toll his violence had taken on their lives before the killing, and the overwhelming sadness and guilt they feel that their efforts to get him help were apparently not enough.

Time and again, his family and friends watched as Johnson slipped through Florida’s judicial and mental health systems, most frustratingly in July 2015, even after a judge signed an order to have Johnson involuntarily committed and evaluated – the first step toward placing him in a long-term care facility.

But that order was never carried out. Johnson was mistakenly discharged from the psychiatric ward of Medical Center of Trinity Behavioral Health, instead of being transferred into the custody of sheriff’s deputies, per the judge’s order.

“For whatever reason something happened with the hospital staff and social services, and they gave him a pillow and blanket and released him,” said Suzanne Snyder, a retired Florida caseworker for the Department of Children and Families, and a close friend of the Johnson family who now lives with Jarred. “If that process had gone through the way that it should have, it would have given (Johnson’s) mom and brother the opportunity to go before the judge and file for guardianship, because he was out of control.”

SUSPECT’S PROBLEMS ESCALATED

A spokesman for the Medical Center of Trinity Behavioral Health, where Timothy Johnson was apparently released by mistake, declined to comment, citing federal patient confidentiality laws.

Therianos traveled to Florida in February to visit a friend and take a vacation. She told family she would return to Maine by Easter, but when she stopped returning phone messages, relatives reported her missing to Florida police. Therianos’ body was discovered on April 7 in a wooded area in New Port Richey near a commercial center.

Police say Therianos and Johnson met on March 13 at a liquor store before they went to a wooded area to drink and have sex. But when Therianos told Johnson to stop, he choked her until she lost consciousness, beat her to death and violated her body.

Police linked Johnson to the slaying through several witnesses who said Johnson confessed to killing Therianos.

A grand jury is expected to indict Johnson in the coming weeks. Prosecutors have not yet determined whether to seek the death penalty.

Although his family said they were shocked by the grisly slaying, they described how Johnson’s mental health and alcohol problems emerged and escalated over the last five years, and how, more recently, he had become violent toward women.

Timothy Johnson’s problems began early, when he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a child.

In May 2009, when Johnson was 18, he was shot in the head as he watched television in his living room by someone outside the house. The perpetrators were never caught, and Johnson spent weeks in a coma, said Snyder. But his family noticed a change when he awoke and returned to his daily life. He became more paranoid and anxious. His affect worsened still a couple of years later in 2011, after a fire that August destroyed the family’s home.

“After the fire, he would drink and get into these episodes,” Jarred Johnson said. “The slightest thing would set him off. He started breaking things in the house. He punched the taillights out of my vehicles.”

Jarred said their father, Stuart M. Johnson, was eventually convicted of setting the blaze and is serving a five-year sentence for arson in a Florida prison, but Jarred Johnson, Cartwright and Snyder said Timothy Johnson later admitted to setting the fire himself.

Chris LaBruzzo, assistant state attorney for Pasco County, could not immediately confirm whether the family brought Timothy Johnson’s admissions to their attention, or whether it resulted in any re-examination of Stuart Johnson’s conviction.

“We’re going to look into it,” LaBruzzo said.

Timothy Johnson often tried to fight his brother, and it was Jarred who would physically subdue him until police arrived.

Jarred Johnson said his brother’s first assault of a woman came in late 2014 or early 2015.

Johnson had moved to Michigan with a girlfriend, and fought with her after drinking one night. The girlfriend called police, and Johnson spent more than a month in a Michigan county jail. Their relationship ended and Johnson returned to his family in Florida.

“When he came back to Florida, that’s when it got real bad,” Jarred said. “He started to get violent. He’d get into these moods. He was unpredictable.”

‘WE HAD A VERY SICK YOUNG MAN’

The violence escalated. In a drunken rage, he held his mother, who suffered from serious health problems that were complicated by the stress of caring for her son, to the floor with a knife to her throat, Snyder said.

The twins’ mother, JoAnn Winters, died in January, and her death weighed heavily on both sons, according to both Cartwright and Snyder.

Often after police arrived, Timothy Johnson would be taken to a temporary facility through a provision of Florida law called the Baker Act, which allows authorities to hold and stabilize individuals for up to 72 hours if they are deemed a threat to themselves or others. Johnson had been “Baker Acted” more than 15 times between 2011 and March 2016, his brother and Snyder said.

But after each short stay in a mental health facility, Johnson was released.

According to statistics gathered by the University of Southern Florida, most people who undergo a Baker Act examination do so once. But a smaller number of individuals cycle repeatedly through the system, sometimes 10, 15 or 20 times over several years, said Annette Christy, associate professor in the department of mental health law and policy and the principal researcher at the Baker Act Reporting Center.

“We told everybody in the courts, the public defenders, that jail isn’t the best thing (for him),” Jarred Johnson said. “He really needs to be put in a psychiatric facility. The courts didn’t do anything. They just kept arresting him and putting him in jail, releasing him and putting him on probation.”

In June 2015, during one of Johnson’s violent episodes, he bit his brother, leading to charges of domestic battery and a restraining order that kept him from returning home.

About a month later in July, Jarred Johnson said he awoke one night about 3 a.m. to strange noises coming from his brother’s bedroom. Jarred Johnson found his brother holding down and choking a prostitute, an assault that ended only when Jarred tackled his sibling to the floor, giving the woman time to flee.

Frustrated with their inability to stop Johnson’s violence and drinking, the family petitioned a Pasco County circuit judge to involuntarily commit him through a law called the Marchman Act, which allows friends or family of individuals with a substance abuse problem to petition the court to commit them voluntarily or involuntarily to a substance abuse treatment program.

In the court filings, his mother and brother’s desperation was evident.

“Has coping problems with everyday stress, has PTSD. … Is on medication but doesn’t work!!!” they wrote, and suggested three treatment facilities where he could be taken.

On July 16, 2015, Pasco County Circuit Judge Philippe Matthey signed an order for deputies to pick up Timothy Johnson for a mandatory psychiatric and substance abuse evaluation – the family’s first step toward getting him into a long-term facility and off the streets.

Had the deputies taken him into custody and followed through on the evaluation, Snyder believes Therianos would be alive today.

“I don’t want to give anyone the impression that we condone his actions,” she said. “That’s not the situation. The situation is we had a very sick young man, and we did the very best we could.”

FLORENCE, Ala. — A judge has denied a motion to reduce bond of a Maine man who is accused of abusing two children at a traveling petting zoo in northwest Alabama.

The Times Daily reported Saturday that Lauderdale County District Judge Carole Medley declined a reduced bond for 48-year-old Daryl V. Raymond Jr. of Stockholm, Maine. Raymond is being held at the Lauderdale County Detention Center on a $300,000 bond.

Raymond worked with the Jungle Safari petting zoo. He was arrested last week and charged with inappropriately touching young girls. He has denied the allegations. The petting zoo had set up operations at a shopping center in Florence.

Police say the victims are all girls between the ages of 3 and 5.

Raymond’s court-appointed attorney, Cody Hand, had asked for the reduced bond because Raymond has limited funds.

SPRINGVALE — Old Orchard Beach Fire Chief Ricky Plummer admitted to fire investigators that he started the April 15 blaze that burned 42 acres of marshland in the town, but denied doing so intentionally, saying he discarded a cigarette butt in dry, chest-high marsh grass, according to documents filed in Springvale District Court.

But fire investigators found no evidence of a discarded cigarette or smoking materials in the area where the wildfire began, and no one close to Plummer could confirm ever seeing him smoke before – he even told investigators that he doesn’t like smoking, doesn’t like the taste and does not inhale.

“I know better to even be out there with a cigarette,” he told them in an interview last Friday, the affidavit said.

Details of the allegations against Plummer, a longtime fire official and well-known community member in Biddeford, came from a nine-page affidavit filed in Springvale District Court in support of the arson charge. Plummer made his appearance in court Monday via a video link from jail, but did not enter a plea because the felony charge has not yet been presented to a grand jury for possible indictment.

The state Fire Marshal’s Office is now reviewing old cases in the towns where Plummer previously worked to determine whether he may have a connection to any of them.

“As far as our agency here is concerned, we’re doing the prudent assessment of fire activity in locations where he may have been involved,” said state Fire Marshal Joe Thomas. “But that’s not unusual in this particular case.”

Asked whether investigators believe Plummer has connections to other fires, Thomas wouldn’t say.

“We have no idea,” he said. “There’s a lot of work yet still to be done.”

One unsolved fire that has drawn attention is an arson on Jan. 20, 2015, that destroyed the vacant 36-room Americana Motel in Old Orchard Beach, which was scheduled for demolition. No one was injured.

FIRE CHIEF CAPTURED ON SECURITY VIDEO

In court, Plummer appeared wearing an orange jail uniform and holding an orange sweatshirt as he sat beside his attorney, B.J. Broder. He spoke only to answer “yes” or “no” to questions posed to him by Judge Jeffrey Moskowitz.

Moskowitz left Plummer’s previously set bail at $10,000 cash and ordered him to stay out of Old Orchard Beach while the case is pending. The judge also ordered Plummer not to possess incendiary devices and to submit to random searches. He made bail Monday afternoon.

A dozen investigators from the state Fire Marshal’s Office and the Maine Forest Service went to Old Orchard Beach on Friday afternoon with search warrants and seized computers at the fire station and in Plummer’s town-owned car, as well as his cellphone, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

The seven-alarm fire on April 15 erupted in a marsh around the Little River. As more than 100 firefighters from several fire departments worked to put out the blaze, residents of the Davenport condo complex were evacuated. Flames came within 100 feet of the buildings, but no one was injured.

The affidavit offers a glimpse into the detailed work of determining the cause of a wildfire.

Because the fire occurred on state-owned property, the Maine Forest Rangers were the primary investigative agency, working for weeks after the blaze to determine the cause. The fire was determined to have originated in the marsh behind 164 East Grand Ave., where a footpath connects to a smaller game trail leading into the marsh and the area where the fire began.

According to investigators, on the afternoon of the fire, Plummer told dispatch at 2:21 p.m. that he was headed to 221 East Grand Ave. to perform a building inspection.

But security footage recorded at the Friendship Oceanside Suites on East Grand Avenue showed Plummer’s marked fire chief vehicle parked a few minutes later behind a vacant building at 164 East Grand Ave., nearly a mile south of the address where he said he would be, and about a four-minute walk from where the fire began.

In the video footage, which was described in the affidavit but not available for public viewing, Plummer crossed the train tracks and disappeared from view for roughly 25 minutes, the period when investigators say he set the fire. During that time, Plummer even radioed back to dispatch to say his inspection was complete.

One minute after he returned to his vehicle at 2:53 p.m., someone called 911 to report the wildfire, according to the affidavit.

Investigators said that Plummer also lied about his whereabouts during the early moments of the emergency response, and withheld information from investigators.

In an interview with investigators last Friday, Plummer at first denied being involved, then changed his story. Plummer told them he had taken two cigarettes from his wife earlier that day and walked into the woods and marsh to get some peace and smoke one of the cigarettes. Plummer said his habit of smoking cigarettes would not be able to be independently verified because he had never told anyone and no one knew about it.

Plummer denied setting the fire intentionally, but said that as soon as he heard the radio call and the fire’s location, he knew he was the one who caused it.

“Fire Chief Ricky Plummer acknowledged that, although he was given several opportunities, he never told me what had happened and that he had continued to misrepresent the truth to me about his actions the day of the fire and what he had in fact been doing in the marsh,” Maine Forest Ranger Matthew G. Bennett wrote in the affidavit. Bennett also noted that in the course of his investigation, he found no cigarette butts or other smoking materials in the area where the fire started.

FIREFIGHTING POSTS IN MANY TOWNS

Plummer has been a firefighter since 1974. He has served as the fire chief in Old Orchard Beach since 2014, and has worked at several departments in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida during his career. He has been placed on administrative leave by Old Orchard Beach, where his annual salary is $70,500.

Plummer said little during the brief court hearing other than to answer the questions posed by the judge, whom he addressed as “sir” each time.

Broder represented Plummer for his initial appearance on the arson charge only and explained to the judge that Plummer was in the process of seeing whether he qualified for a court-appointed attorney or whether he would have to hire his own.

He is next scheduled to appear in court for a conference in the case on Sept. 8. But if he is indicted by a grand jury before then, he could be rescheduled to appear for an arraignment to enter a plea.

If convicted of arson, Plummer will face as much as 30 years in prison.

PRESQUE ISLE – Police say a Maine man who was shot over the weekend after approaching an officer with a knife has died from his injuries.

WABI-TV reports Eastern Maine Medical Center officials informed police that 29-year-old Derek Sam of Presque Isle died early Tuesday.

The confrontation Saturday night started with police responding to a report of an erratic motorist. They say first responders found Sam armed with a knife, which he refused to drop.

The police chief says an officer tried to use a stun gun but it malfunctioned, and that the officer fired when Sam continued to approach with the weapon. The attorney general’s office is investigating the shooting.

The incident began at 5:54 p.m. Saturday when police received reports about a man acting suspiciously near the McDonald’s restaurant on Main Street. The caller told police that the man appeared to be bleeding.

Officer Lucas Hafford responded and made contact with Sam in a parking lot near 631 Main St. When Hafford ordered Sam to put down a knife he was holding, Sam refused to comply. Hafford used his Taser in an effort to prevent him from approaching him, but the device failed to stop Sam from “aggressively” advancing on the officer, according to news release.

After giving him several more commands to drop the knife, Hafford shot and wounded Sam, police said.

Sam was initially taken to The Aroostook Medical Center for treatment before being flown to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

A 34-year-old woman is facing a charge of filing a false police report after allegedly reporting a robbery in an attempt to obtain prescription medication, according to Old Orchard Beach police.

The police department was called to the area of St. John’s Street and Saco Avenue around 9:15 a.m. Tuesday for a reported robbery. The ensuing investigation revealed that the alleged victim, Nicole W. Gagnon of Old Orchard Beach, filed a false public report in an attempt to obtain prescription medications, according to police.

Gagnon was charged with false public alarm and report, a Class D misdemeanor. A Class D charge is punishable by up to one year in the county jail.

AUGUSTA — A New York City man will serve four years behind bars for trafficking in heroin last December in Manchester and Winthrop.

John H. Cedeno, who is also known as “Papers,” now 20, pleaded guilty Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center to one charge of aggravated trafficking. He also forfeited $4,483 and a firearm.

Cedeno was indicted in February on three counts of aggravated trafficking in heroin, one count of unlawful trafficking in heroin, and two counts of criminal forfeiture, one of $4,483 and one of a firearm, all Dec. 3-14, 2015, in Winthrop and Manchester.

The other charges were dismissed in exchange for his plea and for his admission to the forfeiture. He also was fined $400.

Cedeno was arrested on Feb. 14 after he was found hiding in the home of a Winthrop resident who also was charged with trafficking.

Police reported seizing nearly 40 grams of heroin, which amounts to more than 700 doses, as well as a .38-caliber revolver and ammunition, as well the cash.

Also on Tuesday, a former Gardiner man was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a string of burglaries, thefts and driving offenses that occurred between March 12, 2013 and Feb. 15, 2016, and spanned central Maine from Litchfield to Chelsea to Augusta.

Edward B. Robinson, 35, now of Greenville, pleaded guilty to five counts of violating conditions of release, four counts of theft by unauthorized taking, three counts of burglary, two counts of operating after habitual offender revocation, and one count each of theft by deception, theft by receiving stolen property and criminal mischief.

He was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay $2,400 restitution.

Maine State Police said previously that Robinson stole staging from his employer, Pepin Properties, and sold it to buy heroin.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

Three former students at Bonny Eagle High School were arrested and charged Tuesday with breaking into the Standish school and causing widespread destruction during a vandalism spree that took place during the early morning hours.

The destruction was so severe that school officials were forced to cancel classes on Tuesday. Bonny Eagle High School will reopen on Wednesday.

Charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief were Cullen Dumbrocyo, 19, of Standish; Ronny Head, 18, of Buxton; and Jonathan Betancourt, 18, of Standish. Betancourt’s bail was set at $500 while bail was denied for the other suspects.

Lt. Donald Foss of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspects in a press release issued Tuesday night.

“It should be noted that this incident has no apparent connection to and was not motivated by the recent events involving the school district, the superintendent, and his family,” Foss said in the release.

Foss said investigators spent the day following up on leads and examining footage from surveillance cameras at the school.

The sheriff’s office sent deputies to the school complex on Saco Road in Standish around 1:56 a.m. Tuesday to investigate an alarm that had been triggered. Upon arrival, the deputies discovered that there had been a forced entry into the building.

School officials said the intruders broke into the building through a roof hatch in the school’s new wing.

The vandals started by destroying items in the new teachers’ room, the school officials said in a news release. The contents of a refrigerator were dumped on the floor and smashed.

The vandals then moved to the third floor of the old building and released fire extinguishers into the stairwell on the Saco River side of the building.

After that, they moved into the cafeteria and smashed the window on a new Snapple vending machine before dumping the contents in the hallways and cafeteria.

“This all happened in a very short period of time,” the news release said. “Our alarm activated once the individual(s) entered the hallway from the new wing teacher’s room.”

School officials said there apparently was no other damage to the building and nothing appears to have been stolen. They did not provide an estimate of how much the cleanup will cost.

“This is simply an act of vandalism for the sake of vandalism,” the news release said. “Unfortunately, because the walls have to be hand cleaned to remove all the dust that was released from the fire extinguishers and all of the food and beverage products dumped in the building, it will take the day to get this cleaned up and the building made safe for students to return.”

School officials said the roof hatches and all access points to the building were being inspected and resecured Tuesday.

AUGUSTA — A former Clinton man told a judge on Tuesday that instead of reporting to jail as ordered, he chose to stay home and take care of his family because they were living in a tent in a campground at the time.

Louis Joseph Rubino, 34, had been arrested Sept. 3, 2015, in Clinton on several warrants, including one from Knox County for failure to appear to serve a sentence. At the time, he also was charged with a operating after habitual offender revocation and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

In exchange for the pleas, other charges were dismissed: carrying a concealed weapon, having a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle, and displaying a fictional certificate of vehicle inspection, all from Sept. 3, 2015, as well as a separate theft charge from Nov. 2, 2015.

On Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center, Rubino was sentenced to two years in jail, all suspended, and two years probation which is to be served once he finishes serving a two-year period of probation from Lincoln County. There was a separate sentence of 30 days on the operating after habitual offender revocation, and he was given credit for time served.

Rubino said he was just released Friday after spending seven months in jail, the unsuspended portion of the sentence in Lincoln County.

The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Paul Cavanaugh said that while Rubino had an extensive criminal record, there was also an indication that he had some mental health issues which have been addressed recently with a change in medication.

Cavanaugh also said the loaded handgun found in the vehicle’s center console last September belonged to the woman who is now Rubino’s wife, who had bought it for her own use, but acknowledged that Rubino had taken control over it.

Rubino’s attorney, James Mason, said Rubino’s marriage and baby as well as taking care of two step-children have helped provide stability for him, as is a caseworker who is assisting him.

“Where he is now from when I first met him, there has been a vast difference,” Mason told the judge in support of the sentencing recommendation. Mason said he has been representing Rubino for two years.

Rubino told Justice Donald Marden that he had served a total of about six years in prison for other offenses and that he and his family are currently in an apartment in New Auburn and no longer in a tent.

In July 2010, Rubino, then living in Auburn, was sentenced to 10 years in prison with all but four years suspended and four years’ probation after being convicted of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, which occurred in 2006.

At a separate hearing also on Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center, an Oakland man was sentenced to an initial three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to unlawful trafficking in cocaine.

Anthony Leemanual Carmona, 38, saw the remainder of his seven year sentence suspended, and he will spend three years on probation.

According to court documents, the offense occurred Dec. 7, 2015, in Oakland.

He also was fined $400 and ordered to pay $360 restitution for the cost of the state’s drug tests.

In 2007, Carmona was convicted in Kennebec County Superior Court of illegal importation of cocaine and unlawful possession of cocaine. At that time, he was sentenced to an initial 16 months in prison, with the remainder of the five-year sentence suspended.

Also on Tuesday, Austin Shostak Bond, 25, of Jefferson pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of drugs and was fined $400. He also forfeited a firearm that had been seized.

In exchange for his plea, a felony drug charge was dismissed.

Bond was one of eight people arrested in a Jan. 29, 2016, raid by Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigators on a Vassalboro home.

During the raid, agents reported seizing 28 grams of heroin, 65 grams of crack or cocaine base, 25 grams of powdered cocaine, 15 grams of methamphetamine, 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and $2,000 in cash believed to be connected to drug sales, according to the release.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

A 36-year-old Benton woman who pleaded guilty to charges of theft by deception and misuse of identification Thursday was placed on deferred disposition for a year with conditions that prohibit her from having contact with one of the victims and from working in home health or elder care.

Heather N. Giroux also must pay $8,711 in restitution for charges made on a Sears credit card.

Deputy District Attorney Paul Cavanaugh said Giroux used the card belonging to an elderly Benton couple to purchase a number of items between August and September 2013. At the time Giroux was working as a home health aide for the couple.

Cavanaugh said Giroux told investigators she had been given the card by the couple — both born in 1935 — to buy things for them.

However, the couple said they did not give her permission to use it, and the woman has since died. The widower watched the plea in the courtroom at the Capital Judicial Center, but he did not address the judge.

If Giroux complies with the terms of the deferral — which the judge said requires her to make reasonable efforts to pay the restitution within the year — the felony theft charge is to be reduced to a misdemeanor. If she does not comply, then she can be sentenced on the felony, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Defense attorney Walter McKee told the judge that Giroux was entering a plea under the Alford doctrine, which is not an admission of guilt, but indicates the defendant believes he or she could be found guilty if a jury believed the state’s evidence.

He also said police found some of the items Giroux purchased at the victims’ home.

“The bulk of the items, the best I can tell, were not in the possession of the (victims) when police were there,” McKee said. He said some of the evidence indicated Giroux had authority to use the credit card when she did and that she was surprised to be indicted two years later.

Justice Donald Marden said that cases with elderly victims “present a real quandary. On the one hand, the law wishes protect them; and on the other hand, sometimes they don’t remember.”

On Thursday, Giroux was fined $500 for the misuse of identification.

Also at the Capital Judicial Center on Thursday, a Vassalboro man was sentenced to two years in prison for domestic violence assault and criminal mischief that occurred March 12, 2016, in front of police on Temple Street in Waterville.

Daniel A. Goodrich, 38, pleaded guilty to those two crimes and apologized to the victim, a 34-year-old woman, who also was in the courtroom.

“I’ve put (her) through hell these last four years,” he said. He told the judge he had problems with alcohol. “I’ve been drinking since I was 17 and will try to work on it while I’m in the prison.”

Assistant District Attorney Kristin Murray-James said police were patrolling Temple Street the night of March 12 when they saw Goodrich push a woman into the vehicle. When they investigated, they saw she had bruises on the side of her face. Murray-James said Goodrich and the woman had been arguing at a bar over text messages exchanged with former boyfriends and girlfriends and that the argument continued on the sidewalk.

In exchange for Goodrich’s pleas, the state dismissed a charge of violating conditions of release which alleged he had contact with the victim March 21-26, 2016, from the jail.

Also on Thursday, an Augusta woman pleaded guilty to five counts of theft by unauthorized taking, three counts of criminal trespass and one count each of criminal mischief and false public alarm or report, all of which occurred Dec. 22, 2015 through Feb. 21, 2016, in Augusta and Waterville.

Jamie Lynn (also Jamie-Lyn) Giroux, 36, of Augusta, was sentenced to an initial 90 days in jail, with the remainder of a three-year sentence suspended and two years’ probation. Probation conditions prohibit her from being on any Wal-Mart property or business in Maine.

She was ordered to pay $2,208 in restitution plus $2,910 in fines from old cases.

Giroux told the judge she has changed since she has been in jail. She said she stole a TV from Wal-Mart in Waterville — which the state said was worth $1,090 — to pay off someone else’s debt.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

SKOWHEGAN — The following cases were closed March 14-21, 2016, in Skowhegan District Court and Somerset County Superior Court.

Shawn P. Anthony, 19, of Hanover, operating unregistered snowmobile Jan. 30, 2016, in Rockwood; $200 fine.

Katelynn M. Austin, 20, of Skowhegan, operating while license suspended or revoked Sept. 1, 2015, in North Anson; $500 fine.

Jason L. Bell, 46, of Dennistown, operating snowmobile on open water Feb. 22, 2016, in West Forks; $100 fine.

Devin L. Bellefleur, 27, of Fairfield, failure to register vehicle within 30 days Jan. 24, 2016, in Fairfield; $100 fine.

Francis E. Berry, 49, of Greene, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 2, 2016, in Fairfield; $250 fine.

William E. Bowley II, 44, of Canaan, operating unregistered snowmobile Feb. 6, 2016, in Skowhegan; $100 fine.

Randall G. Chamberlain, 36, of Waterville, possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, Jan. 23, 2016, in Hartland; $350 fine.

Chrystal L. Currie, 37, of Fairfield, failure to register vehicle Jan. 22, 2016, in Fairfield, dismissed.

Anthony J. Dix, 24, of Skowhegan, operating vehicle without a license Jan. 9, 2016, in Skowhegan; $150 fine.

Jeremy S. Donovan, 39, of Farmington, motor vehicle speeding more than 30 mph over speed limit Jan. 17, 2016, in New Portland; $500 fine.

Ben Dostie, 34, of Clinton, possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, Feb. 2, 2016, in Fairfield; dismissed.

Dalton T. Ellis, 19, of New Vineyard, violating snowmobile noise level limits Jan. 16, 2016, in Tomhegan Township; $100 fine.

Louis J. Feliciani, 52, of Garland, visual sexual aggression against a child May 14, 2015, in St. Albans; 364-day jail sentence, all but 75 days suspended, one year of probation.

Sasha M. Giles, 24, of Fairfield, operating while license suspended or revoked Jan. 22, 2016, in Fairfield; $250 fine.

Jared L. Glazier, 20, of Wales, failure to provide and display registration Jan. 15, 2016, in Hobbstown Township; $100 fine.

Chad Hamilton, 35, of Detroit, operating snowmobile on plowed road Feb. 13, 2016, in Detroit; $100 fine.

Danielle Harker, 24, of Skowhegan, failure to register vehicle Jan. 25, 2016, in Skowhegan; dismissed.

Eben A. Harris, 20, of Fairfield, possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, and minor possessing liquor, both Feb. 5, 2016, in Fairfield; $450 in fines. Minor transporting liquor Feb. 5, 2016, in Fairfield; dismissed.

Jesse C. Huff, 31, of Poland, violating snowmobile noise level limits Jan. 21, 2016, in Parlin Pond Township; $100 fine.

Evan M. Kazmouski, 19, of Hanover, Massachusetts, operating unregistered snowmobile Jan. 30, 2016, in Rockwood; $200 fine.

Jerame G. Landry, 28, of Madison, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 17, 2016, in Skowhegan; $250 fine.

Joshua R. Lane, 26, of Derry, New Hampshire, violating snowmobile noise level limits Feb. 6, 2016, in Jackman; $100 fine.

Eric D. Leighton, 27, of Skowhegan, negotiating a worthless instrument Aug. 18, 2015, in Skowhegan; $50 fine.

Kenneth R. Logel, 59, of Skowhegan, operating under the influence, failing to notify of motor vehicle accident, criminal mischief and falsifying physical evidence, all Feb. 6, 2016, in Fairfield; $600 fine, four-day jail sentence, 150-day license suspension, $71.21 restitution. Operating vehicle without a license Feb. 16, 2016, and possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, both in Fairfield; dismissed.

Katherine E. Lyons, 24, of Ellsworth, failure to register vehicle Feb. 10, 2016, in Fairfield; dismissed.

Sabrina Madore, 24, of Skowhegan, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Aug. 18, 2015, in Canaan; $200 fine.

Jamie S. Marshall II, 25, of Canaan, permit unlawful use Feb. 12, 2016, in Canaan; dismissed.

Scott Martin, 26, of Hartland, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 3, 2016, in Canaan; $500 fine.

Ronald Mayo, 46, of Skowhegan, operating under the influence and violating condition of release, both March 13, 2016, in Skowhegan; $500 fine, 48-hour jail sentence, 150-day license suspension.

Dylan M. Mulherin, 22, of Litchfield, failure to provide and display registration Jan. 15, 2016, in Hobbstown Township; $100 fine.

Kirk Mullen, 37, of Oakland, violate suspended or revoked license and fish violation of number, amount, weight or size, both Jan. 26, 2016, in Embden; $200 in fines.

Daniel L. Napoli, 28, of North Andover, Massachusetts, failure to provide and display registration Jan. 16, 2016, in Tomhegan Township; $100 fine.

James Nickerson, 26, of Dixmont, engaging a prostitute Dec. 11, 2015, in Palmyra; $500 fine.

Steven J. Nye II, 27, of Biddeford, operating after registration suspended Jan. 28, 2016, in Skowhegan; $100 fine.

Antonio J. Parker, 42, of Skowhegan, two counts of assault, both March 13, 2016, in Skowhegan; $600 in fines, $300 suspended, 10-day jail sentence. Refusing to sign criminal summons, same date and town; dismissed.

Brian Quirion, 39, of Oakland, fishing without valid license Jan. 26, 2016, in Embden; $100 fine.

Joseph R. Quirion, 18, of Belgrade, possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, use of drug paraphernalia, both Jan. 23, 2016, in Fairfield; $650 in fines.

Dick E. Raymond, 27, of Madison, displaying fictitious vehicle certificate, operating while license suspended or revoked and falsifying physical evidence, all Jan. 8, 2016, and operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 5, 2016, all in Fairfield; $1,350 in fines. Possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, and use of drug paraphernalia, both Jan. 8, 2016, in Fairfield; dismissed.

Todd Allen Sands, 44, of Orrington, operating while license suspended or revoked Jan. 21, 2016, in Fairfield; $500 fine.

Danny H. Shaw, 52, of Charleston, engaging a prostitute Dec. 11, 2015, in Palmyra; $500 fine.

Theresa Tibbetts, 48, of Waterville, theft of services Jan. 29, 2016, in Fairfield; dismissed.

Kenneth R. Tiedman, 33, of West Sand Lake, New York, failure to provide and display registration Jan. 9, 2016, Jackman; $100 fine.

Nicholas P. Varney, 24, of Smithfield, operating under the influence Jan. 27, 2016, in Smithfield; $750 fine, 150-day license suspension.

Anthony Violette, 24, of Oakland, fishing without valid license Jan. 26, 2016, in Embden; $100 fine.

Christopher Warner, 22, of Clinton, unattended lines Feb. 6, 2016, in Skowhegan; $100 fine.

Dennis Watson, 62, of Richmond, exceeding bag limit on moose Oct. 13, 2015, in Moose River; $1,000 fine, three-day jail sentence.

Tyler M. Witham, 23, of Deerfield, New Hampshire, violating snowmobile noise level limits Feb. 13, 2016, in Johnson Mountain Township; $100 fine.