FARMINGTON – After sitting for two days, the Franklin County grand jury rose Tuesday afternoon with indictments against 28 people.

James Richman, 60, of Wilton was convicted last May for having unlawful sexual contact with an 11-year-old boy during the summer of 2002 when he fondled the child in his Wilton home. Richman, who maintained his innocence throughout the trial was sentenced to two years in prison by Justice Joseph Jabar.

Now, that boy’s older brother, who is under the age of 14, has come forward to police and alleged that Richman had sexual contact with him as well during that period.

As a result of those allegations, the grand jury indicted Richman, who is in the Maine State Prison, on two counts of Class A felony gross sexual assault and two counts of Class C felony unlawful sexual contact.

Mark Reynolds, 20, of Farmington was indicted on felony Class C reckless conduct and Class C terrorizing.

Reynolds is accused of throwing a pipe bomb into a Farmington home in July, creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to one of the home’s residents. Reynolds is being held in jail due to charges that he was the person behind a drive-by shooting in March that left a New Sharon family uninjured but shaken. At least three of the shots fired at the time came within a foot of a teenage girl living in the residence.

Another 20-year-old, Craig Tracy of Canton, has also been indicted. He is in jail after being arrested last week on a charge of gross sexual assault. He is accused of sexually assaulting a woman while she slept after a New Sharon party. He was indicted on that charge and a charge of violating his conditions of release, a Class E misdemeanor, by allegedly committing a crime.

Two of his other indictments are a result of an incident in June in Jay when Tracy is accused of entering a motor vehicle with the intent to commit theft and also took a gas can without permission.

He was indicted on a charge of felony Class C burglary and a Class E misdemeanor of theft by unauthorized taking.

Tracy also was indicted on a felony Class C crime of failing to appear in court last May on two counts of Class C burglary of a motor vehicle.

Patrick Crocker, 38, of Rangeley also was indicted on a charge of unlawful sexual contact. He stands indicted on four felony Class C unlawful sexual contacts. He is accused of intentionally subjecting a boy under the age of 14 to sexual contact between August 2000 and May 2002.

While police were investigating these allegations, another person came forward, saying that in the mid 1980s Crocker engaged in a sexual act with another young boy under the age of 14. For this, the Rangeley man was indicted on a felony Class A gross sexual misconduct charge.

Conviction for each Class A crime can net up to 20 years in prison and each Class C up to five years.

sdepoy@sunjournal.com

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