AUBURN — A Lewiston man who falsely accused a well-known Syracuse University basketball coach of molesting him on a team trip was ordered Friday to serve an additional year in jail for violating his probation.

Zachary Tomaselli, 27, of 341 Sabattus St. admitted Friday in Androscoggin County Superior Court that he violated the terms of probation stemming from an earlier sex assault conviction involving a 13-year-old boy.

Justice Robert Murray ordered Tomaselli into a 45-day residential substance abuse treatment program following his release from jail.

Tomaselli’s probation officer accused him of committing new criminal conduct by stealing his grandmother’s flat-screen TV and iPad from her College Street home in Lewiston. No charges stemming from that conduct have been brought by the District Attorney’s Office.

Instead, prosecutors focused on Tomaselli’s probation violation. He appeared in court Friday in a jail suit, restrained by handcuffs and ankle chains.

His probation officer had penned in an affidavit that Tomaselli admitted stealing his grandmother’s electronics after initially claiming to have been at work at the time they disappeared on Nov. 17. When the probation officer checked with the oil company where Tomaselli had claimed to have been working, the officer was told that Tomaselli never worked there.

Tomaselli also lied to his grandmother about needing money to register as a sex offender with the Lewiston Police Department every three months, his probation officer had written.

After being told to wait for a drug test at his probation office, Tomaselli fled. When he later turned himself in to his probation officer, he said he would have failed the test because he had taken heroin, crack and THC, the chemical responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects, a day earlier.

During a December car ride to Androscoggin County Jail, Tomaselli admitted he had broken into his grandmother’s home and stolen her TV and iPad to exchange for drugs with a dealer.

In April 2012, Tomaselli was sentenced in Androscoggin County Superior Court to 12 years in prison with all but three years and three months suspended. He started serving six years of probation in February.

Tomaselli had pleaded guilty in December 2011 to gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact, both felonies, as well as two misdemeanor charges of visual sexual aggression against a child.

Terms of his probation included no contact with children under age 18, no contact with the victim or his family, and required sex-offender counseling. He was barred from having or drinking alcohol and was required to take all of his prescribed medications and not to use illegal drugs.

The sexual abuse charges stemmed from incidents that began in August 2009 when Tomaselli met his victim at a day camp where Tomaselli worked as a counselor. The crimes occurred later, not at the camp. The boy was 13 when the abuse started, and turned 14 when the abuse continued.

Tomaselli went public with his own sexual abuse allegations, along with two other accusers, against former Syracuse University associate head coach Bernie Fine, who, Tomaselli said, molested him in 2002 when he was 13 years old. The U.S. Attorney’s Office investigated. Tomaselli’s was the only claim that hadn’t expired by statute. No charges were brought in that case. Fine was fired from his position at Syracuse. Tomaselli sued Fine but later dropped the suit.

The same week Tomaselli was sentenced, he admitted to having fabricated the accusations against Fine.

cwilliams@sunjournal.com