SWAN’S ISLAND, Maine — A local man with an extensive criminal history, including federal offenses, is behind bars again after police found two rifles in his house.
Shaun G. Lemoine, 35, is barred from possessing firearms because he is a convicted felon.
In 2007, Lemoine was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison after he purchased seven guns in Southwest Harbor while under indictment in state court on charges of burglary and theft. Three years later, he was sentenced to serve another eight months behind bars — two of them for violating the terms of his federal supervised release — after he stole more than $2,000 worth of lobster from a Swan’s Island lobster dealer in 2008.
Then, in 2012, he was sent back to federal prison for seven months after he was found guilty of a state civil charge of molesting another lobsterman’s fishing gear.
Paul Gamble, chief of the Swan’s Island Police Department, said Thursday he and an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Lemoine on Wednesday when Lemoine was on his brother’ fishing boat in Bass Harbor on Mount Desert Island. Lemoine was not armed and did not resist arrest, Gamble said.
According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Lemoine’s latest arrest comes after people close to the fisherman told police last year that Lemoine had rifles he used to go out at night and hunt deer. The Swan’s Island Police Department obtained a search warrant, then executed it at Lemoine’s home on Bruner Point Road. Lemoine was incarcerated at Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth at the time police searched his home, according to the document.
In the home, police found two rifles in a black metal gun case and associated ammunition, an ATF agent wrote in the affidavit.
Gamble said Thursday that Lemoine is being held at Penobscot County Jail in Bangor. A detention hearing for Lemoine has been scheduled in federal court in Bangor at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, according to information posted in the court’s publicly accessible online database.
