SWAN’S ISLAND, Maine — A local fisherman with an extensive criminal history is back behind bars awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Shaun G. Lemoine, 36, is due to be sentenced in federal court in Bangor on Jan. 4, 2016.
He was arrested Feb. 4 after police were provided with information about Lemoine having guns in his home. He is barred from possessing firearms because he is a convicted felon.
In 2007, Lemoine was sentenced to serve a year and a half in federal prison after he purchased seven guns in Southwest Harbor while under indictment in state court on charges of burglary and theft. In 2010, 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.
Three years ago he was sent back to federal prison for seven months for again violating the terms of his federal supervised release after he was found guilty of a state civil charge that he molested another lobsterman’s fishing gear.
According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor, after being told this past January that Lemoine had firearms in his house, police on Swan’s Island obtained a search warrant and 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 agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms wrote in the affidavit.
Lemoine pleaded guilty in March to being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to information posted in a publicly accessible online database of federal court documents. In late October, he agreed to voluntarily withdraw from the federal release program and to submit himself to custody pending his sentencing.
Lemoine reported to Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth on Nov. 2, where he is expected to remain at least until his sentencing in Bangor in January.
