Convicted sex offender David Beaudette faces another 30 months in prison.
AUBURN – A convicted sex offender who spread worry through the River Street neighborhood when he moved there last January is back behind bars.
David Beaudette was arrested earlier this week, charged with violating six conditions of his probation.
The violations included possessing cocaine and marijuana, possessing a firearm, drinking alcohol, failing to submit to a drug and alcohol test, failing to report a change of address and failing to refrain from contact with females under 16 by moving to a home where a 10-month-old lived.
Beaudette appeared in Androscoggin County Superior Court Thursday and admitted to three of the violations: possessing drugs, drinking and failing to submit to the test.
Justice Thomas E. Delahanty II ordered him to remain in jail without bail until his sentencing hearing later this month.
The state plans to ask that he serve another 30 months.
Beaudette has been listed as a sex offender since his release from prison late last year. He served time for gross sexual assault and sexual abuse of a minor, crimes committed in 1993 and 2001.
Beaudette also spent time in prison for aggravated assault, arson and drug trafficking.
Since Beaudette had been convicted of sexually abusing teen-age girls, he was qualified for the sex offender registry. When he moved to River Street earlier this year, police notified neighbors of his presence.
In late November, police received information that Beaudette was involved in activities prohibited during his three-year probation period. Investigators learned he was staying at a Lisbon home and raided the house with a search warrant.
Police said Beaudette was discovered hiding inside the home where the 10-month-old girl was living and that drugs and a shotgun were also found.
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