PARIS – A court justice has ordered a mother to remain in Maine while she waits to be tried on a charge of lying to law enforcement officials to conceal her son’s identity.

Patricia A. Gullikson, 38, of 29 Harnden Road in Denmark pleaded not guilty to aggravated forgery and hindering apprehension or prosecution Thursday morning in Oxford County Superior Court.

Prosecutors claim she bailed her son out of jail with the same false identity he had previously given his arresting officer and booking official.

Justice Robert E. Crowley released Gullikson on personal recognizance rather than having her post cash bail. She ordered her not to leave the state without permission from her probation officer. She is on probation for a conviction in Cumberland County, Assistant District Attorney Richard Beauchesne said.

According to court records, Gullikson’s son, Ronald Gullikson, 19, was arrested last year at the Oxford County Fair after he returned to the fairgrounds after police had asked him to leave. He was charged with possession of alcohol by a minor, failure to submit to arrest, assault on an officer, and criminal trespass.

He was taken to the Oxford County Jail on Sept. 17, 2005, and booked as Scott S. Carter of 266 Fore St. in Oxford. His mother, with the alias Patricia Carter, arrived at the jail about one hour later to bail him out, police said.

“All the paperwork she signed to get him out of jail, she signed in a false name,” Sgt. Rickie Jack of the Oxford Police Department said Thursday in a phone interview. He said she wanted to conceal her son’s identity so police would not discover other warrants for his arrest.

About a month later, Sgt. James Ventresca of the Norway Police Department went to Patricia Gullikson’s residence in Norway looking for her son, who was wanted on a charge of fleeing a youth center in Portland, Jack said.

When Ventresca arrived, Ronald fled through the back door. Jack was called to assist. It was then that police connected the Carters with the Gulliksons and charged Patricia Gullikson with helping to cover up her son’s identity.

Ronald Gullikson is still wanted. “He’s a fugitive,” Jack said, adding that Patricia Gullikson has not helped police track him down.

“She’s not helping him in the long run because he will have to pay for these actions one way or other,” Jack said.