FARMINGTON — The assistant town manager of Rangeley pleaded guilty Thursday to driving in Rangeley under the influence of alcohol in January.

Traci Lavoie, 54, of Rangeley was stopped by Trooper Marc Rousseau of the Maine State Police, for an expired vehicle registration in Rangeley and issued a summons on a misdemeanor charge of operating under the influence.

Assistant District Attorney James Andrews said Lavoie had a .18% blood alcohol content level, just over twice the legal limit of .08%.

Lavoie had previously pleaded not guilty to operating under the influence, with the BAC level test results, in Franklin County Unified Court and a charge of operating after suspension on April 5.

Those charges were dismissed in a plea agreement by the state on Thursday. In the plea agreement, Lavoie pleaded guilty to a charge of OUI with the dismissal of the BAC level test results.

The dismissal of the test results in the charge eliminated a mandatory two days in jail.

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Justice Nancy Mills sentenced Lavoie to a $500 fine and a 150-day loss of her driver’s license to run concurrent with the state administrative suspension. A conviction on an OUI charge carries a maximum 364 days in jail and up to a $2,000 fine.

According to Lavoie’s attorney, Ronald Cullenberg of Cullenberg Law Offices in Farmington, she has already completed the Driver Education and Evaluation Program and served the 150-day state administrative suspension of her license. She planned to pay the fine on Thursday.

Andrews said Lavoie had no other license suspension on her record and it did not involve a crash.

Mills gave her a seven-day stay on her license suspension so she could get the paperwork into the state.

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