POLAND – Accused of menacing his family and shooting their 16-year-old dog, Paul Parker Jr. drew the wrath of a district court judge Thursday.

The 48-year-old New Gloucester man was slapped with $25,000 cash bail, new charges were brought against him and he was ordered to stay out of Poland.

Parker was charged with felony cruelty to animals, theft of a firearm and violating a protection order.

In 8th District Court in Lewiston, Judge John McElwee warned Parker against further contact with his ex-wife or his son after four months of harassment.

Should he be freed from jail, Parker is forbidden to call them, visit them or go near their places of employment.

McElwee also added the bail condition that Parker not even drive into the town of Poland.

For his ex-wife and son, the court hearing Thursday offered at least a glimmer of hope that what they describe as increasingly dangerous harassment will end.

“He has got to be stopped,” said Joyce Parker, who lived with Paul Parker at a trailer on Gagne Lane before they were divorced.

Police say that on Tuesday, Parker snuck into the trailer where his ex-wife and son are living while the home was empty.

Police said Parker took his son’s .22-caliber rifle and shot his Rottweiler-Labrador mix named Kiesha.

“He only took the things that were important to us,” said Paul Parker III, Parker’s 24-year-old son. “He took my dog’s life and he took my .22, which had been handed down to me by my grandfather.”

Joyce Parker and her son have said the elder Parker has made numerous claims that he would come back to the Gagne Lane property and “finish off” his family.

Parker Jr. was arrested late Tuesday by a Maine State Police tactical team that found him passed out, the gun at his side, in the woods behind his estranged family’s home.

Court records show that Parker has been convicted on several charges stemming from confrontations with his family. In April, he was arrested for setting a fire and assaulting his son in the yard at Gagne Lane.

In August, he was charged with terrorizing his family, driving drunk and violating bail conditions from the earlier arrest. He later pleaded guilty to the charges and served 15 days in jail.

Parker remained at the Androscoggin County Jail on Thursday night.