PARIS – The man who kept police at bay for 14 hours in a standoff in Mexico on Thursday was ordered held in jail without bail by Oxford County Superior Court Justice Robert Crowley on Friday, Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant said.

Gallant said Assistant District Attorney Joseph O’Connor, “articulated quite well,” why Norman “Bo” Thompson should not again be freed on bail.

“The judge was in agreement this man should not be bailed, and he is in our custody,” Gallant said.

Thompson, 35, of Mexico and Lewiston, was also charged with theft, burglary, criminal mischief and being in violation of bail conditions. Wanted on several car theft and burglary-related charges, Thompson was released from Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn last week on personal recognizance bail after he was arrested in Lewiston while trying to flee police there.

“It didn’t take much convincing. I told him what Thompson has pending and his records,” O’Connor said later.

A conference between the prosecutors, judge and Thompson’s state-appointed attorney has been set for Nov. 29, O’Connor said.

But the charges against Thompson would likely go to the next Oxford County grand jury before then, in early November, O’Connor said.

Thompson has charges pending in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties, O’Connor said.

The State Police Tactical Team took Thompson into custody in Mexico about 11:30 p.m. Thursday.

In all, more than 40 local, county and state law officers were involved in the incident. The state police had 25 members on the scene Thursday, according to a statement from Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland.

The department’s new robot was also used for the first time, entering the house after it was filled with tear gas, the statement stated.

The total cost for the agencies involved in capturing Thompson was still being calculated Friday, but Gallant estimated county costs alone would exceed $4,600. Cost estimates for the state police and local police departments were not immediately available.

Gallant said he was happy the standoff ended without injury but again voiced frustration that Thompson had ever been freed from Androscoggin County.

“I’m glad it ended up safely, but what a waste of time and money,” Gallant said.

The most recent burglary charge is the most serious Thompson has faced and is a Class B felony, O’Connor said.

Thompson gained widespread attention after a Sun Journal photographer captured dramatic photos of him leaping from a third-floor porch in Lewiston while running from police Oct. 3. The photographer, Russ Dillingham, tackled Thompson and held him until police could handcuff him.

A day later, he was free on bail and, according to Mexico Police Chief Jim Theriault, he stole a car in that town Friday, a day after he left jail. Theriault said he was a suspect in three car thefts and five car burglaries within a week.

But the burglary he was charged with Friday stems from a September incident in Mexico, O’Connor said. Lewiston police recovered items including a television, DVD player, Sony Play Station and a table valued at about $2,000 from a Lewiston woman, who said they came from Thompson.

The items are believed to have been stolen from a home in Thompson’s Mexico neighborhood, according to an affidavit filed by Mexico police Sgt. Roy Hodsdon.

Thompson loaded the stolen goods in a yellow wheelbarrow, also stolen from the home, and wheeled them across a backyard to his home’s backyard, where he left the wheelbarrow in plain view. Another neighbor also witnessed Thompson wheeling the stolen goods across the yard, the affidavit stated.

Thompson’s arrest Thursday night came after the tactical team fired multiple rounds of tear gas into the building. Team members later entered the home and found Thompson hiding in a crawl space underneath the garage.

Thompson’s family has said he should not have been released from Androscoggin County last week and that he has a severe substance abuse problem. His brother Allen Thompson also said his brother suffers from mental health defects. “He’s mentally retarded and a crackhead,” Allen Thompson said Thursday while his brother was holed up. Allen also said his brother had frequently threatened suicide.

“That’s something we frequently hear from defendants and their families,” O’Connor said. “And any jailer will tell you they have a huge number of people on (mental health) medications. The jails both here and nationwide are bursting with mentally ill people and drug abusers, including alcohol abusers.”

He said Thompson may be known as a “big-time substance abuser” but that he also hasn’t taken advantage of the substance-abuse programs offered in the jails and prisons in which he has served time.

“The services are available if he chooses to take advantage of them, but he chooses instead to commit crimes,” O’Connor said.

Getting Thompson committed to a secure mental institution is also problematic because the state would have to show he was an imminent danger to himself or others. Beyond that, Maine’s secure mental health hospitals like Riverview in Augusta are already full and have waiting lists, O’Connor said.

From a prosecutor’s perspective, the best place for Thompson is jail or prison, O’Connor said.

“He needs to go away for awhile. He is not reforming, he is not taking advantage of any services,” O’Connor said. “Unfortunately he is somebody that needs to be confined for the protection of society.”

Attempts to reach Thompson’s attorney, Donald Hornblower, of Lewiston were unsuccessful Friday.