PARIS – Two men were sentenced Thursday after admitting to violating their conditions of probation on drug convictions.
Robby Gene Brackett, 31, of 80 Hebron Road in Paris, admitted to violating probation by engaging in new criminal conduct in April 2008. He was given a 125-day partial revocation for time served.
Brackett was sentenced to serve three months of a three-year sentence and two years of probation in March 2007 after pleading guilty to Class C unlawful trafficking in cocaine. Brackett had also been charged with escape, theft, and forfeiture of $1,467 for the incident in May 2006 when he fled police while handcuffed, but those charges were later dropped.
Brackett also forfeited $1,630 and pleaded to Class D unlawful possession of cocaine in a separate incident and was ordered to pay a $400 fine. Brackett had originally been charged with Class A aggravated trafficking in cocaine after police found him with eight grams of packaged cocaine in the Big Apple parking lot in Oxford.
Defense lawyer William Cote said the discovery materials in the case only supported a charge of possession. He also said in a court motion that Brackett had done “extraordinarily well” in a substance abuse treatment program.
Dana Lee Richardson, 50, of 25 Maine Ave. in Rumford, was ordered to serve seven months of an underlying sentence after admitting to using cocaine. Richardson pleaded guilty to two counts of Class B trafficking in cocaine in May. He was ordered to serve 30 days of a three-year sentence with a nine-month probationary period and pay a $4,000 fine.
Richardson was originally charged with two counts each of Class A aggravated trafficking in cocaine and Class C conspiracy to commit trafficking in cocaine. He was one of 10 people arrested after an eight-month investigation into cocaine sales in Rumford in 2006.
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