PARIS – An emergency medical services technician from Paris, who was accused in January of pretending to be a police officer, denied the charge Monday in South Paris District Court.
Court Clerk Laura Nokes said Monday that Stanley Larson’s lawyer waived the initial appearance of his client at arraignment, entering a plea of not guilty to a Class E misdemeanor charge of impersonating an officer.
Subsequently, Nokes said, she set a hearing for Larson at 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 13, in the South Paris court.
She also set a deadline of Tuesday, April 19, for Larson to file a request for jury trial, if desired. Such a request, if granted, would change the hearing venue to Oxford County Superior Court in Paris.
Larson, 36, of Skillings Avenue, was initially summonsed on Feb. 4 by Maine State Police Trooper Andre Paradis.
Larson is accused of using a red flashing light in his 1994 Ford Crown Victoria, previously a police cruiser, to pull over a woman driving on Route 118 in Waterford on Jan. 3.
Despite being charged with the crime, Larson did not lose his emergency medical services license, said Jay Bradshaw, director of Maine Emergency Medical Services in Augusta.
That license, which allows Larson to practice emergency medical services patient care at the EMT-Basic level, was issued on Oct. 9, 2002, Bradshaw said Monday afternoon.
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