ROCKLAND, Maine — A 21-year-old Rockland woman will be spending 120 days in jail beginning this fall after she admitted to breaking into the Midcoast School of Technology nearly three years ago.
Amy J. Allender was sentenced Tuesday in Knox County Superior Court by Justice Richard Mulhern. Allender reached a deferred disposition with the district attorney’s office a year ago. She was called to serve 60 days in jail if she stayed out of trouble for a year. But before the time was up, she was cited in March 2014 for a bail violation for use of alcohol.
Assistant District Attorney Christopher Fernald said the new agreement calls for 364 days in jail with all but 90 days suspended for criminal trespass at the vocational school. In addition, she will serve a consecutive 30-day sentence for the bail violation.
Allender also will be required to pay a little more than $400 in restitution to the school.
Allender and a 28-year-old man were arrested outside the school in August 2011 after Rockland police Detective Russell Thompson arrived in response to an alarm. He found an exterior door had been damaged and entry made to the vocational school.
Thompson called for assistance from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine State Police with a tracking dog. Then Thompson followed a trail of evidence from the school and saw the two suspects. The man fled on foot into the woods while Allender was apprehended. The man was found later in the woods before the tracking dog arrived on the scene.
Cold water survival suits, radios, flares and a computer system were recovered.
The co-defendant was sentenced in 2011.
The start of Allender’s jail sentence has been delayed until October for medical reasons.