PARIS – Oxford County Superior Court Justice Ellen Gorman is to consider a civil suit today that was filed by a Boston law firm against a former client, a Woodstock camp owner.
According to the Feb. 14 complaint, Carter and Doyle LLP is suing Jason A. Sarro, 29, of Malden, Mass., alleging breach of contract arising from Sarro’s reported failure to pay $75,000 in connection with a Dec. 15, 2003, fee agreement.
As of Feb. 9, the amount owed had increased to $98,000, which did not include interest and costs, lawyer Valerie S. Carter, of Carter and Doyle, stated in a motion for real estate attachment. That motion seeks to secure a lien on Sarro’s property at Mann Camp Road in Woodstock for $98,000, plus costs and interest.
Carter’s affidavit states she defended Sarro on gun charges in Maine, and an accompanying probation revocation proceeding in Massachusetts.
Sarro was arrested by Maine State Police Trooper Daniel Hanson on Dec. 14, 2003, and charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Sarro was convicted of trafficking in more than 14 grams of cocaine in 1999 in Massachusetts, prohibiting him from possessing firearms.
Carter stated that the arrest triggered the Massachusetts probation revocation against Sarro, who was in custody at various correctional institutions in that state between Dec. 14, 2003, and Oct. 15, 2004.
On Dec. 23, 2004, in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris, Sarro’s lawyers, Carter and Rumford attorney Ron Hoffman, presented a motion before Gorman, to suppress evidence seized by police on Dec. 13, 2003, at the Woodstock camp.
That evidence included weapons, one of which was an Uzi-type machine with high capacity ammunition packs, Trooper Hanson testified.
Hanson and Oxford County Sheriff’s Office Capt. James P. Miclon went to the camp to check on a young woman staying there who reported there were dead bodies there that were being covered up. No bodies were found.
Carter and Hoffman argued that police obtained a search warrant after seizing the evidence, which constituted an illegal search.
Gorman agreed, granting the motion, which closed the case and freed Sarro from the gun charge.
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