ROCKLAND, Maine — A 22-year-old Rockland man who caused a disturbance in August at Pen Bay Medical Center when he was refused painkillers was sentenced Wednesday to time served.
Jay T. Carter pleaded guilty in Knox County Superior Court to theft, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Justice Daniel Billings sentenced Carter to 55 days in jail but with the amount of time he had already spent at the Knox County Jail, he will not have to spend any additional time behind bars.
According to police, an officer was asked by the hospital to respond to an unruly patient on the evening of Aug. 3. Carter had punched a hole in a wall near the pharmacy. The officer found Carter outside in the parking lot where Carter admitted to punching the wall, saying he had been denied the drugs he needed. The officer checked the man’s backpack and found drugs as well as some medical supplies such as bandages that Carter admitted stealing from the hospital’s emergency room.
An air pistol also was found in the backpack but he had not used it at the hospital.
Carter then became unresponsive due to an unspecified medical problem and was taken back to the hospital for treatment before being taken to the jail.