BANGOR, Maine — A 21-year-old Grindstone man has been arrested and charged as a second suspect in a home invasion in Greenbush earlier this week.
After being arrested by officers from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office around 8 p.m. Thursday, Ryan Petrin, 21, appeared before District Court Judge Valerie Stanfill at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor on Friday afternoon.
Petrin, who was not required to enter pleas and did not do so Friday, is being charged with Class A robbery, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years’ imprisonment and a maximum fine of $50,000, and Class B assault with a dangerous weapon, which carries a mandatory one-year prison term and a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison plus fines.
Petrin and Medway resident Nicholas Hutchinson, 23, allegedly broke into a woman’s home and assaulted her and one of her two children early Monday morning.
The victim, Marcia Fieger, was present at Friday’s hearing to urge Stanfill not to set bail for Petrin, an unemployed student at Katahdin Region Higher Educational Center.
“They never came to my front door or knocked on a door. They came through my son’s bedroom window with masks on their face … at 1 o’clock in the morning,” Fieger told Stanfill. “At this point, my 5-year-old son is scared because he knows Mr. Hutchinson, but he’s more scared because this gentleman [Petrin] threatened to snap his neck.
“So to have his bail low enough that he could walk the streets and we could run into him at the grocery store … isn’t fair. I don’t think lenience on bail is fair because they weren’t lenient when they beat me.”
Tracy Collins Lacher, assistant district attorney for Penobscot County, requested $1,000 cash bail and conditions including no contact with the victim or her family; no use of drugs, alcohol or dangerous weapons; a curfew restricting him to his home between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m.; and an order to stay out of Greenbush.
Lacher said that during the home invasion Petrin helped steal a black box that contained 20 doses of liquid methadone.
Defense attorney Dennis Hamrick said Petrin allegedly went to the home looking for money — not drugs — that was owed Hutchinson and that barring him from Greenbush was inappropriate because Petrin’s girlfriend lives in Greenbush.
“And she states herself that Mr. Petrin was wearing a mask, so I don’t understand how her 5-year-old son could be afraid of him having never actually seen him,” said Hamrick. “And my understanding is that at the time Miss Fieger had no idea who the other person was with Nicholas Hutchinson.”
Hamrick pointed out that the Lincoln-born Petrin has just two infractions in his history: a juvenile burglary in 2006 and a conviction for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs earlier this year that resulted in an undisclosed fine.
Stanfill said that given the seriousness of the charges, the state’s request for $1,000 cash bail was more than reasonable and also reflected the mitigating factors Hamrick raised.
Stanfill appointed Joe Belisle as Petrin’s defense attorney and also set a court date for 8:30 a.m. Nov. 6.
Petrin’s father was also present in court Friday to let his son know that he would post bail for him. Petrin’s family lives in Medway.
Petrin was released on bail from the Penobscot County Jail just before 6 p.m. Friday, a jail official said.
Hutchinson appeared in court earlier this week and remains imprisoned.
“Further charges will be decided by the district attorney’s office and the case will be presented to the grand jury at a later date,” said Detective Bill Flagg of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office.
BDN writers Ryan McLaughlin and Alex Barber contributed to this report.
Good work PCSO & all other agencies who worked for this end……
Oh please…they didnt have a clue where he was or who he was. Hutchinson made a sweetheart deal with the DA to get a lighter charge and ratted out his buddy, this is pretty obvious.
Truer words were never spoken!
He had to give up that name before the cops got it from somebody else. Otherwise he wouldn’t even be able to bargain. That’s probably what the cops and somebody from the DA’s office told him or his attorney. I doubt that he’s actually made a deal yet. They would wait to see if his buddy will confess. It weakens your plea bargaining if the guy you were going to testify against confesses. My bet is that both will confess and plea bargain. The result is that both get much lighter sentences than they really deserve.
Yes, I think it’s way too early for a deal to have been made.
glad they arrested the scumbag. Hope that she and her children can begin to heal for this terrible nightmare now that they are behind bars.
OT What? How is that working out for you boys?
Great Maine boys
You were a naughty boy Ryan, very naughty and so stupid that you’re not going to get away with it this time. For you and your pal, it’s green table, green banana. So get ready.
After I commented the judge set bail at $1,000 for a crime that has a possible maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. At this rate, the judge will be apologizing to this guy the next time he’s in court.
Therefore, I withdraw the “green table, green banana” part of my comment. When I posted it, I guess I forgot this is in a Maine court with a Maine judge. The naughty and stupid I’ll let stand but amend it to include “lucky”.
Green mile…
There are three of these Petrin brothers nothing but a nuisance to society, always in trouble with the law will do anything for drugs one thing to do a little hell raising have a few run ins with the law but these boys dont know their limits which makes them a danger to the rest of us.. lock them all up!
when you grow up in a town/community that always looks the other way what else would you expect? This could have been prevented if he had just once been held accountable when he was younger.
Very glad to have a new chief that actually believes in arresting people who break the law. It’s good to know not everything is going to be a civil matter now. And way to go PCSD for teaching this kid a lesson!
Who are you to possibly know this much about my brothers? You know nothing. My brothers are good people. Everyone makes mistakes, and not one person can deny that. Don’t care what you friggin’ no life trolls say. My brothers are better people than most of you, sitting safely behind a computer or phone, blindly judging people.
I think your brother’s home invasion at Marcia Fieger’s was more than a mistake.
Don’t you agree?
I hope that these kids do some serious time, but this women was a known drug dealer, perhaps selling drugs out of your house with two small kids present isn’t the best idea. I hope she is ok and the kids also but she should also be held acountable for her actions.
That’s a different issue entirely. The issue at hand is that 2 men, I’m sorry, BOYS, broke into her home at 1 am, beat her up, and injured her child.
People who are prescribed controlled meds need to keep their mouths shut about medical conditions and medications. People are breaking into houses and pharmacies almost daily in search for drugs or money/items to cash in for drugs. The vultures scan obituaries so they can raid homes while parents, wives and childen are burying loved ones. If these two men knew she had drugs she either has a ‘reputation’ or she advertised it. How insane with children in the house! What happened to her and childen was horribe and these men absolutely need to be held accountable but what role did mom have in all this??
I feel bad for the kids. I don’t think their mother has “clean hands” in this matter.
Ditto! The kids are the bottom line and the ‘adults’ need to be held accountable.
I think that the kid should be removed from the home until the mother can be more closely investigated. Too many variables in this situation like the $ 6000. cash she had and the 20 doses of liquid methadone. There seems to be more to this story than meets the eye. Why is the kid still there ? Even if the mom has the drug legally the information in this and a previous article puts her and the kid in further danger from other break in’s. I also think Petrin would have been better off claiming to be there for the drugs instead of the cash. He might have gotten rehab time instead of jail time !
Obviously not. Still, it’s not a mitigating circumstance for a home invasion at 1am, especially when there are very young children present, children who do have clean hands.
It looks to me like the prosecutor and judge rolled over on the question of bail. Maybe they thought they were in a civil equity court – not criminal – applying equitable doctrines like “clean hands”.
The bail is $1,000 for a violent home invasion????
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