AUBURN, Maine — A former Maine high school track star has been sentenced to two years in jail for his role in the robbery of a Lewiston man’s medical marijuana.
Ricardo Hairston was also sentenced Thursday in Androscoggin County Superior Court to three years of probation upon release and barred from using alcohol, illegal drugs, firearms or dangerous weapons.
The Sun Journal reported the 20-year-old Hairston pleaded guilty last month to charges of robbery, burglary and theft.
Prosecutors say Hairston was one of three men who broke into a Lewiston couple’s home in September 2011. Two of them had guns. They took marijuana the victim was legally allowed to use for medical reasons, as well as electronics.
Hairston won a state championship in the triple jump at Edward Little High School.
“Former”- Do they take away a track award when someone is setenced to jail time?
They should.
As Maine and Vermont are the only states that allow inmates to vote, I doubt that taking away a track championship will happen before those rights are taken away.
Sad that this crime wouldn’t have even happened had marijuana been legalized.
He broke into the guy’s house to steal. What part of theft would be legal if the thing the guy was stealing had a different status?
So these three guys would have gone to the corner store and purchased what they needed? I never thought of that….
Sad that this crime wouldn’t have happened if this guy hadn’t decided to ROB somebody. Yeah, it is the “system’s” fault he is going to jail. Can’t it ever be the criminal’s fault?
It was legal and still a crime took place!
Who gives to craps about what someone did in highschool. Stupid headline. If he did something after highschool like become productive then that is one thing.
why is one of the terms of his probation that he can’t use illegal drugs?
who can use illegal drugs?
I believe that the stipulation means that a probationer will head back to the clink to serve the remainder of his sentence if he violates the terms.
Or just say if he drinks, has guns, or breaks the law while on probation he goes back to serve the rest of his sentence. Isn’t it kind of understood that he can’t break the law? That is just kind of a stupid redundancy.