BELFAST, Maine — A Waterville man who pleaded guilty a year ago to burning down his ex-girlfriend’s Unity mobile home will spend more time in jail after admitting to violating one or more of his probation conditions.
Addison Duong, 22, was ordered last week by Judge Ann Murray of Waldo County Superior Court to serve eight months in jail. According to documents filed at court, Duong admitted to daily use of marijuana and to occasional use of non-prescribed Percocet, a controlled painkiller that contains oxycodone, both of which were prohibited by his probation conditions.
According to Jeffery Furlong of the Maine Department of Corrections, Duong also allegedly engaged in criminal conduct on Feb. 18, 2016, in Fairfield, when he grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and held her against a wall, then threatened to kill her with a handgun. Furlong wrote in his affidavit in support of Duong’s probation revocation that when Duong was taken into custody, the weapon was determined to be a BB gun.
Additionally, Furlong wrote in the Feb. 19 affidavit that Duong had only paid $75 of a court-ordered $7,046 in restitution and had failed to show proof of treatment for substance abuse, anger management and psychological counseling.
Last March, Duong was sentenced to four years in prison with all but six months suspended for setting fire to his former girlfriend’s home. He initially told a Waldo County deputy who was investigating the fire that he hadn’t been involved, but then admitted he had lit a candle and placed it under a curtain.
“Duong reported he was extremely angry at the time because his girlfriend had left him and he was looking for her,” Deputy Jordan Tozier wrote in an investigation narrative.
A Somerset County Court clerk said Wednesday that she could not confirm whether or not Duong has additional criminal charges pending because of the alleged Feb. 18 domestic violence assault.
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