BANGOR, Maine — Longtime Brewer city solicitor Joel A. Dearborn Sr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to a drunken driving charge and paid a $700 fine in a plea agreement with the Penobscot County district attorney’s office.
His driver’s license was suspended for 150 days.
Dearborn, 68, of Brewer, who had no prior criminal history, did not appear at the Penobscot Judicial Center in person. His attorney, Wayne Foote of Bangor, entered the plea on Dearborn’s behalf.
“Mr. Dearborn deeply regrets his actions and takes full responsibility for them,” Foote said Tuesday in an email.
Lawyers may enter guilty pleas on their clients’ behalves if the charge is a misdemeanor and not a felony.
Dearborn was arrested June 3 in Holden after police were called about 9:40 p.m. to Bagaduce Road for a report of a car off the road, Holden Police Chief Chris Greeley said on June 7. When the officer arrived, he observed signs of intoxication and administered a field sobriety test, which Dearborn failed.
He was taken to the Bangor police station, where an Intoxilyzer test was administered, Greeley said.
The police chief declined to release the results but said that the test showed Dearborn’s blood alcohol level was above the legal limit of .08 percent.
Dearborn was not taken to the Penobscot County Jail but released on his own recognizance, Greeley said in June.
Under Maine law, the attorney faced a mandatory minimum fine of $500 and license suspension of 150 days.