MEDWAY, Maine – A 21-year-old Grindstone man charged in connection with a home invasion in Greenbush on Labor Day was back in jail Sunday after a police officer said she saw him out after curfew.
Ryan Petrin was charged Saturday with violation of conditions of his release. He was being held without bail in Penobscot County Jail on Sunday. He is due at the Penobscot Judicial Center on Monday, a jail worker said.
Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Patty McLaughlin was on patrol on Route 157 in East Millinocket at about 8 p.m. when she said she saw Petrin in another vehicle. She stopped the vehicle just over the Medway town line and arrested Petrin.
One of Petrin’s bail conditions was a 6 p.m. curfew, McLaughlin said.
Petrin was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with Class A robbery as what police described as the second suspect in a home invasion. Petrin and Medway resident Nicholas Hutchinson, 23, allegedly broke into a woman’s home and assaulted her and one of her two children early Sept 3.
The alleged victim told District Court Judge Valerie Stanfill at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor on Sept. 7 that the two men were wearing masks when they entered her home through her 5-year-old son’s window. She said Petrin threatened to snap her son’s neck.
Defense attorney Dennis Hamrick said Petrin allegedly went to the home looking for money — not drugs — that was owed Hutchinson. Hamrick objected to barring Petrin from Greenbush and questioned how the boy could have identified Petrin if the suspect were wearing a mask.
Hamrick also said that he was told that the victim didn’t know Petrin at the time of the incident.
Stanfill set a $1,000 cash bail on Petrin 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.
A prosecutor said that Petrin, an unemployed student at Katahdin Region Higher Educational Center, helped steal a black box that contained 20 doses of liquid methadone during the incident.
BDN writer Judy Harrison contributed to this report.
Way to go, Officer Patty, keep the scumbag in jail and off the streets.
He was given a chance to stay out on bail and he blew it. Now he should stay there until trial. Just goes to show how serious he takes the law. He is in for a life time of misery unless he gets his act together.
Notice how he uses the defiant pose of crossed arms? Many judges would demand he show the court some respect by putting them at his sides! Lenient Maine judges reading from a script…
He may be a college student but it appears he is not learning much.
He’s not. He dropped out of the classes he was in with me. He just stopped coming. This shows how much ambition he has.
Why does the Justice system think people like this will listen to them? keep them behind bars so they can not cause more trouble. Geezzzz get with it court system.
Why would he listen? The police in the community did nothing about these ‘little things’ for years. Now there is a new chief in town that seems to run a tight ship. Along with the speeding and seat belt violations, about the only thing the old chief wanted his officers handling, other stuff that used to be overlooked or called ‘civil’ (like assault) is now criminal. I almost feel bad for this kid for never learning that the law applies to him but I understand why he would come to that conclusion living where he does.
The thing to remember is, respect for the laws of the country and state should be taught at home at a young age.
He threatened to snap a five year old’s neck? Pure trash and I hope you get your behind kicked in jail. How dare you frightened a small child? Big, DUMB bully!
A home invasion? He’s lucky to be ALIVE!!!
WHY is he out of jail in the first place?????????????
What ever Maine judge released him, this means you have bad judgment.
His father can’t bail him out this time! That’s the problem, his father! Let the kid have some consequences for once in his life! Maybe some time in jail let’s see…..um no drugs, alcohol, is the best thing for your kid! Come on, time to be a real parent! Even at 21, it’s never too late to show tough love!
Not only do they go get themselves jobs to support their own drug habits, they have to rob someone, as if its someone else’s responsibility to take care of them, like two little babies.
Of course they didnt pick a man to rob, they pick a woman, home alone with her two children. It took the two of them together, armed with “weapons” to take her on. Because these are two little b*tches. Little girls. It wont take long for them to become someone’s b*tches in jail, where they belong.