LISBON – Registered sex offender John G. Garshva, 50, of Topsham, who pleaded guilty to two stalking charges, one involving a 9-year-old girl in Lisbon, was sentenced Tuesday to nine months of a one-year sentence in Androscoggin County Jail

Garshva received the nine-month sentence for the stalking charge filed by the Lewiston Police Department. He was sentenced to 364 days, suspended, for the Lisbon incident, plus a one-year probation with conditions.

He also pleaded guilty to a charge of operating under the influence in Lisbon, for which he was sentenced to serve seven days and pay a $700 fine.

After the sentencing in 8th District Court in Lewiston, Lisbon Detective Bernard McAllister said he thought it “was a good resolution” to the cases, all of which are class D misdemeanors under Maine law.

“I wish it could have been more, but the maximum it could have been was one year,” and he got nine months, McAllister said.

Maine’s stalking law makes no distinction based on the ages of victims.

Garshva was arrested on the afternoon of June 5 by Lisbon police after concerned neighbors reported seeing a man attempting to get a 9-year-old girl into his pickup truck by offering her money.

The incident also was witnessed by a teenage boy.

Reporting by concerned neighbors and a quick response by police were credited with apprehending Garshva while he was still the area on the same day.

Garshva also was connected a stalking incident in Lewiston that was reported after the story about the Lisbon arrest appeared in the newspaper.

Garshva is listed on the Maine Sex Offender Registry Web site as being convicted in Massachusetts of intent to commit rape, indecent assault and battery, and on three charges of open and gross lewd and lascivious behavior, all between 1989 and 1994.