FARMINGTON – Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Chase pleaded guilty Friday to driving to endanger and had a drunken driving charge dismissed in a plea agreement. He was ordered to pay a $575 fine.

He previously pleaded not guilty to operating under the influence.

Chase has been on paid administrative leave since his arrest Nov. 21, 2008, by Wilton police officer Joshua King, who stopped him on Route 2 in Wilton. Chase was on vacation at the time.

During the stop, Chase showed signs of alcohol consumption but refused to submit to a test, police said. For that, he received a 275-day license suspension, effective Feb. 9.

On Thursday, that suspension was rescinded because officer King did not attend a required hearing on it, Robert O’Connell of the Maine Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles, said Friday.

Defense attorney Woody Hanstein asked that a 30-day license suspension imposed with the guilty plea Friday be retroactive to Feb. 9, which Justice Michaela Murphy granted.

Assistant Attorney General David Fisher, who was standing in for Androscoggin County Assistant District Attorney Craig Turner, said the two sides had agreed on the request.

It was minor erratic operation, Fisher said.

“People make mistakes and that includes police officers,” Hanstein said after court. “There is an administrative process at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy to look into situations like this one. . . . I have every hope officer Chase, who has an excellent record, will be allowed to continue as a police officer.”

Sheriff Pike was unavailable for comment Friday, as was Wilton police Chief Dennis Brown.