AUBURN — A judge Thursday allowed the return of cameras and other electronic equipment to a Turner man and former police officer charged with multiple hunting and drug violations.

Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy signed an order to give back to Everett H. “Lenny” Leonard, 61, three cameras, an iPod and case, and a cellphone modem that were seized when he was charged last year with crimes in connection with illegal hunting activities in 2010 in Turner, Leeds and Auburn.

Assistant District Attorney Andrew Matulis said prosecutors no longer needed the cameras because investigators had retrieved all of the information from them that they were seeking.

Leonard was also seeking to have returned to him an all-terrain vehicle and a security camera, but prosecutors didn’t agree. Leonard, through his attorney, William Cote, said his wife needed the 4-wheeler to get around their property and the camera was needed for personal safety. Instead, Justice Kennedy scheduled a hearing during which witnesses are expected to testify in an effort to determine whether those items were seized illegally.

Leonard is awaiting trial on multiple hunting and drug charges.

When Leonard and his son, Everett T. Leonard, 33, were arrested earlier this year, police seized hundreds of pounds of deer meat, firearms, deer antlers, bows and arrows, spotlights, a mounted hawk and owls, a computer, documents and other hunting-related equipment from their homes.

Charges handed up by an Androscoggin County grand jury against the older Leonard include four felony counts of unlawful trafficking of oxycodone in Turner in September and November; two counts of driving deer on Nov. 18 and Nov. 20 in Turner, in which he is accused of participating in a group hunt to purposely drive deer toward a group of three or more people; one count of trapping without a license; and one count of indecent conduct, accused of purposely exposing himself to someone with the purpose of alarming that person.

Prosecutors in Maine had postponed their pending case in this state while awaiting the completion of prosecution against the two Leonards in Pennsylvania, where they were convicted of multiple hunting-related crimes. A district attorney there called the Leonard cases “one of the most egregious” hunting-related criminal cases in that region.

Everett H. Leonard was sentenced to 15 days to two months in prison plus 18 months of probation. He was also fined $2,300.

He pleaded guilty to five illegal killings and a dozen other game violations, including road hunting, loaded firearms in vehicles, killing deer at night and license violations. He had faced up to seven years in prison and up to $43,000 in fines and costs.

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