PARIS – A 27-year-old Norway man will spend 10 years in prison after pleading to a litany of felony charges Thursday in Oxford County Superior Court.

Derrick T. Morrison of 4 Tucker St. was sentenced by Justice Roland A. Cole.

Morrison pleaded guilty to aggravated trafficking in heroin, aggravated unlawful furnishing of heroin and eluding an officer. He also admitted violating his probation for a 2003 conviction of aggravated assault and forfeited $976 seized by police.

Morrison was given two concurrent six-and-a-half year sentences on the drug charges, which will also run concurrent with a two-year sentence for eluding an officer. These sentences will run consecutive to the three-and-a-half years received for the probation revocation.

According to police affidavits, Morrison was arrested Aug. 7 after an investigation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. Police discovered a used syringe, a metal spoon with white powder residue, 2.2 grams of heroin, and 9.4 grams of cocaine, and the cash in the back seat of a car in which Morrison was a passenger. After he was taken to the Oxford County Jail, police found a total of 14 grams of heroin.

A search of Morrison’s room at Goodwin’s Motor Inn on Route 26 in Paris, where he was staying under a false name, revealed more heroin, scales, packaging bags, handwritten drug ledgers, and a four-ounce bottle of a cutting agent commonly used with cocaine.

Morrison was released from jail to the St. Francis Halfway House in Auburn on Jan. 9 after qualifying for an initial 30-day admission. He left the residence a week later without permission. According to defense attorney John Jenness Jr., Morrison left because his girlfriend had been threatened and he wanted to help her.

On Jan. 22, Morrison led police on a high-speed chase through Woodstock, ending when he crashed his van into a wall of snow at the end of Ricker Road. Morrison fled into the woods and surrendered after about an hour.

Morrison appeared on crutches in the orange uniform of the Oxford County Jail. Jenness said Morrison may lose some of his toes to frostbite.

The probation revocation stems from a 2003 conviction for aggravated assault, for which Morrison was ordered to serve 18 months of a five-year sentence and four years of probation. According to an affidavit by Lt. Jason Moen of the Auburn Police Department, Morrison was one of two men who broke into a Minot Avenue home, assaulted its occupant and stole 28 ounces of marijuana and between $400 and $500.

When asked if he wanted to speak, Morrison said he appreciated the chance for the rehabilitation and hopes things will work out in the end.

“I really don’t know what to say,” he said.