PARIS – A Mexico woman pleaded guilty Monday to two felony operating under the influence charges in Oxford County Superior Court.
Sheena Arsenault, 19, was sentenced by Judge Ellen Gorman to two years in Oxford County Jail with all but six months suspended.
Arsenault was also placed on two years probation and must pay a fine of $1,000 each per charge and associated court costs of $350 within 20 months.
Additionally, her driver’s license was immediately suspended for four years.
According to court documents in Arsenault’s file, she is to report to the jail at 9 a.m. on Jan. 8 to begin serving her sentence.
Conditions stated that Arsenault must submit to random search and testing for alcohol and drugs, and must complete counseling treatment for substance abuse.
Arsenault was indicted May 20 by an Oxford County grand jury on two Class C felony counts of criminal OUI in connection with an April 2 crash at 7:37 a.m. on Isthmus Road in Rumford.
The indictment stated that Arsenault allegedly caused serious bodily injury to Jessie Cross of Mexico and Jesse Merrill of Dixfield, passengers in the 1991 Chevrolet Blazer she was driving.
According to a Rumford police report, the wreck occurred on a wet road in a series of S-turns between St. John’s Cemetery and Belliveau Road when the Blazer got into the lane’s soft shoulder, and swerved back across the roadway into a stand of trees.
The trees prevented the crushed vehicle from rolling down a steep embankment.
Cross and Arsenault had to be extricated by emergency responders.
All three suffered critical injuries and had to be transported to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston for surgeries and treatment.
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