PARIS – An accident Friday evening in Sumner postponed this month’s trial of a Rumford man charged with stealing more than $5,000 from the Moontide Water Festival last year.
The case against former Moontide President Matthew J. Plante, 47, is to be continued, Oxford County Superior Court Clerk Donna Howe said Tuesday.
Plante’s lawyer is Ronald E. Hoffman, who was seriously injured about 6 p.m. Friday when the bicycle he was riding on Gammon Road was struck by a pickup truck exiting a driveway.
Oxford County Deputy Brian Landis charged the truck driver, David Rose, 36, of Greenwood, with driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana.
Hoffman, who was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, was listed in good condition late Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman said.
Plante had been scheduled to appear in the Paris court after pleading not guilty in March. He was indicted in February, and summoned to appear in court on a felony charge of theft.
He is accused of embezzling between $5,000 and $6,000 between June 28 and Oct. 3, 2004, in Rumford.
Moontide Water Festival Inc. is a public, nonprofit organization responsible for raising about $40,000 each year for Rumford’s Fourth of July celebration.
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