PORTLAND – The 38-year-old Massachusetts man charged in the deaths of two boaters on Long Lake in Harrison was booked and bailed from the Cumberland County Jail on Wednesday, a jail official said.

Robert LaPointe Jr. of Medway, Mass., was booked on two counts of manslaughter. He posted $100,000 as cash bail and was freed.

LaPointe was booked at the jail at 1 p.m. and bailed about 2:30 p.m. the jail official said.

LaPointe was indicted last week by a Cumberland County grand jury after investigators said his high-performance speedboat crashed into another boat on the night of Aug. 11.

Killed in the collision were Terry Raye Trott, 55, of Naples, and Suzanne Groetzinger, 44, of Berwick and Norway.

Friends have said Trott and Groetzinger were on Trott’s 14-foot Glaspar motorboat watching the Perseid meteor shower when they were struck by LaPointe’s 34-foot, dual engine speedboat, a Sunsation Dominator.

Maine Warden Service investigators determined that LaPointe’s boat was traveling about 45 miles per hour in the dark on the night of the crash, Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson said last week.

The collision occurred near the middle of the 11-mile-long lake south of Bear Point on the east shore and not far from the Naples town line at about 9 p.m. It took Warden Service divers three days to recover Groetzinger’s and Trott’s bodies.

The grand jury also indicted LaPointe on four counts of aggravated operating under the influence and one count of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.

The two counts of manslaughter are each punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The four counts of aggravated OUI each carry a maximum six-month jail term and a $2,100 fine.

LaPointe’s blood-alcohol content was .11 percent at the time of the crash, Anderson said. Maine’s legal limit for operating a boat or other motor vehicle is .08 percent.

Last Thursday, Anderson said she wanted LaPointe to turn himself into Maine officials “sooner rather than later.”

LaPointe faces four OUI charges – two from the state fish and game department and two from the state motor vehicle department – because the laws allow it when a death occurs, Anderson said. The dangerous weapon charge is a result of LaPointe’s allegedly being intoxicated, operating at an excessive speed, failing to maintain adequate visibility and failing to yield to another watercraft as he piloted his boat with dual 435-horsepower engines down the lake.

Attempts to reach LaPointe and his attorney, J. Albert Johnson, were unsuccessful Wednesday afternoon.