ROCKLAND, Maine — A Maine State Prison inmate could serve more time behind bars after being accused of threatening staff and stalking a person on the outside by phone.
Michael Brown, 37, made his initial appearance Friday in Rockland District Court on a probation revocation motion filed by probation officer Jodie Johnson. No plea has been submitted yet.
Paperwork filed by the probation officer in court states that Brown violated his probation by committing new crimes while incarcerated. Those charges include two counts of terrorizing on Aug. 27, 2014, and domestic violence stalking from Aug. 31 through Sept. 14, 2014.
According to Maine Department of Corrections spokesman Scott Fish, Brown was at the medium security Charleston Correctional Facility when he telephoned the victim. No other information about the alleged threats to the victim or staffers was available.
When Brown’s actions were discovered, he was transferred from Charleston to the Maine State Prison in Warren, Fish said.
Brown was convicted in 2008 for a 2007 kidnapping in Aroostook County. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison with all but five years suspended and was placed on probation when released in February 2012.
He soon was sent back to prison for another three years, however, for domestic violence assault and criminal threatening against a different woman.
Fish said Brown was in prison and not on probation when he allegedly committed the new crimes, but state law allows for a probation revocation motion to be filed if the person commits new offenses while in a correctional facility.
Brown was scheduled to be released in May, but may end up serving more time if convicted of the new charges.