PARIS – Mary Salterio, 43, of West Paris received a six-month suspended sentence Oct. 25 in Oxford County Superior Court in connection with an April assault on Oxford Police officer Theron Bickford.

She also received consecutive six-month suspended sentences on separate charges of threatening display of a weapon in June in Buckfield, and operating under the influence in July in Paris.

Salterio pleaded no contest to a charge of assault against Bickford after she approached him inside a Route 26 restaurant in Oxford and asked him if she could get her gun back.

Bickford, who had been holding her gun in connection with an earlier incident, said no. He said in a statement that Salterio “slammed” out of the restaurant and spit on his cruiser.

Bickford said he followed her to her truck, which was running, and as he attempted to shut the truck off for his own safety, a struggle ensued.

“She repeatedly punched, scratched and gouged my face and eyes,” said Bickford, until he used pepper spray to subdue her. Bickford said Salterio ripped his glasses off his face and flung them, breaking them. She also ripped the police patch off his uniform, he said.

In June, state police trooper Dan Hanson said in court documents that Salterio arrived at the redemption center on Depot Street in Buckfield and pulled out a knife and a billy club while making threatening statements.

Salterio was ordered to pay a $600 fine and surrender her license for 90 days in connection with the OUI charge.

Along with her assault conviction, Salterio will serve a one-year term of probation, during which she must receive treatment for substance abuse, use no alcohol or drugs, and take her medication as prescribed.