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PARIS – A charge of domestic assault has sent a 22-year-old man to prison for the next four years on a 2005 burglary conviction.

Joshua D. Westberry, who last resided on Cottage Street in Norway, was ordered Monday by Justice Robert Crowley to serve the unsuspended portion from the 2005 charges after admitting a probation violation in Oxford County Superior Court.

Westberry was indicted in February 2005 on 21 counts of burglary, 20 counts of criminal mischief, and six counts of theft. Westberry, then 19, was accused of breaking into 21 seasonal camps on West Shore Road in Denmark and stealing various items, including weapons, a silver flask, a pair of binoculars, and a Suzuki motorbike.

Westberry pleaded guilty to 11 of the burglary counts on Sept. 6, 2005. He was sentenced to two consecutive six-month sentences on two of the counts and a fully suspended five-year prison sentence for the remaining charges. He was also ordered to serve three years of probation and pay $6,397.83 in restitution to the camp owners.

According to court records, Westberry’s probation officer filed five motions to revoke Westberry’s probation, alleging new criminal conduct since his release from jail, failure to pay restitution and supervision fees, and failure to report changes of address. A sixth motion to revoke, charging that Westberry had committed assault in jail after being sentenced on the burglary charges, was dismissed because his probation had not yet gone into effect.

On April 28, Westberry was arrested at a Cottage Street residence after being accused of punching a 19-year-old woman in the face.

Crowley determined that Westberry has served some of the original suspended sentence and ordered him to serve the remaining four years and 54 days. The sentence is concurrent to a probation revocation out of Androscoggin County.

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