ROCKLAND, Maine — An inmate at the Maine State Prison who is serving a 95-year sentence for raping and murdering a Brewer woman in 1995 and raping three other women had another 60 days added to his term on Tuesday for drug possession within the prison.
Douglas G. Littlefield pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in Knox County Superior Court to one count of trafficking in prison contraband. Justice Daniel Billings accepted a plea agreement reached between the prosecution and defense calling for the 60 days.
Assistant District Attorney Christopher Fernald said even though Littlefield would be 99 years old before he is eligible for release from prison on his original sentence, the added sentence sends a message to other prisoners that drug trafficking in the prison will not be tolerated. Billings said he expects that Littlefield also faced administrative punishment within the prison for his actions.
Littlefield, 44, was found by corrections officials with Suboxone, which he was hiding in a balloon in his mouth, Fernald said. The offense occurred in February 2013 at the Maine State Prison in Warren.
Littlefield was sentenced in 1999 to 95 years in prison for the rape and murder of Alex Jones. The victim’s throat was slashed and her body was found dumped in an industrial park in Hampden, according to a 1999 Bangor Daily News article. The crime went unsolved for about two years until DNA tests taken when Littlefield was arrested for raping an elderly Bangor woman in 1997 linked him to the murder. He also was linked to two other rapes.
Littlefield was convicted in 1999 of murder, kidnapping, three rapes, and aggravated assault for beating an elderly man in downtown Bangor.