PARIS – A Newry man pleaded guilty to four of eight charges on Oct. 29 in Oxford County Superior Court.

In a plea bargain arrangement, Jeremy A. Cowin, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in Oxford County Jail on a felony burglary charge, and 30 days on the other three misdemeanor charges of theft, terrorizing and criminal mischief.

Judge Roland A. Cole also fined Cowin $2,309.70 and placed him on two years probation for the burglary charge and 60 days probation for the three misdemeanors.

In return for the plea, other felony charges of burglary and theft, and misdemeanor charges of assault and criminal mischief, were dismissed.

Cowin was initially arrested on a Portland police warrant on March 8 by Maine State Trooper Terry James at Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry.

At that time, Cowin was on probation in Cumberland County when Oxford County probation officer Michael Downs, also employed as a Sunday River security guard, placed a probation hold on Cowin.

According to James’ report, Sunday River security guard James Bennett had confronted Cowin after catching him with a PACE ambulance medical box, which was property of the resort’s ski patrol.

On May 20, an Oxford County grand jury indicted Cowin on the charges to which he pleaded guilty, for burglarizing the Sunday River Ski Patrol building on March 8, and stealing two jackets, a medical kit, and keys, estimated to be worth more than $500.

He was also charged with criminal mischief for damaging the building’s door to gain entry, and with terrorizing for threatening to kill Bennett.

The assault charge was dropped, as were charges of burglary, theft and criminal mischief, for a March 4 incident at the resort’s Ride On Snowboard shop. In that case, Cowin was charged with damaging the shop’s door to gain entry, and with taking 28 pairs of sunglasses and snow goggles, seven pairs of ski bindings, eight snowboards, and two shirts, valued at more than $1,000.