PARIS – A man accused of trying to run down two police officers with his truck last June pleaded no contest to reckless conduct and obstructing the report of a crime Monday in Oxford County Superior Court.
Lawrence J. LaPoint, 51, of 156 Poplar Hill Road in Mexico may withdraw those pleas and plead guilty to misdemeanor reckless conduct charges if in the next two years he has no contact with his brother and does not return to Mexico except to remove property with advance notice to police, Justice Roland Cole ruled.
Sgt. Roy Hodsdon of the Mexico Police Department said in his report that LaPoint attempted to strike officers Matt Noyes of the Rumford Police Department and Dean Benson of the Maine State Police with his pickup truck in June. Police had been called to his home for a domestic violence call.
LaPoint was later arrested on a rural road after Trooper Jason Wing fired three shots at LaPoint’s truck as it was moving toward police. LaPoint was not injured and the Attorney General’s Office found the trooper was justified in his actions.
LaPoint was also sentenced to 24 hours, time he had already served, after pleading no contest to criminal threatening in a separate case alleging that he threatened his brother. A criminal charge was dismissed.
Stephen L. Damon, 23, of 118 Gary St., Paris, pleaded no contest to unlawful sexual touching and two counts of assault. He was ordered to serve nine months of a 364-day jail sentence as well as one year of probation and pay a $600 fine.
Damon was indicted on the assault charges and unlawful sexual contact in June. He was accused of attacking a 27-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man in her Paris home in May and sexually touching the woman.
John P. Roaix, 24, of 93 King St., Oxford, pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary and one count of theft. He was sentenced to 18 months, all suspended, two years of probation and to pay $3,500 in restitution.
Roaix was accused of burglarizing the food shack, candy shop, beer garden and tech shop at the Oxford Plains Speedway in May 2007 and stealing food and tools.
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