BANGOR, Maine — A Levant man who in February created a 12-hour police standoff in Brewer was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison with all but nine months suspended after he pleaded no contest to one count each of terrorizing by creating a standoff and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.
Brandon L. Ogden, 33, also was sentenced to four years of probation that includes mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment and no contact with the victims. Because he is now a felon, he will not be able to possess guns.
No contest pleas result in convictions.
In a plea agreement with the Penobscot County district attorney’s office, one count each of terrorizing and criminal trespass were dismissed.
Ogden, who has a tattoo that covers most of his face, had been held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail since his arrest on Feb. 6 at a State Street apartment in Brewer, unable to post $25,000 cash bail. He was expected to be released late Monday or early Tuesday because he has completed his sentence, according to his attorney, Aaron Frey of Bangor.
Frey said after the sentencing that Ogden went to the home of a Brewer couple, described in court documents as friends, because Ogden’s marriage was breaking up. He began hearing voices coming from the basement that told him members of a motorcycle gang had surrounded the building and were coming in to shoot him.
The couple was able to get out of the apartment and call police about midnight Feb. 5 after the woman, who had been in the bedroom with the couple’s dog, pretended to be sick. The man told Ogden he was taking her to the hospital.
Frey said Monday that Ogden had been found competent to enter his pleas.
He faced up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 on the charges to which he pleaded no contest.
Ogden is the father of a 3-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at her Bald Mountain Drive residence, where a loaded gun was left within her reach in 2013, family members have said. The girl was paralyzed from the neck down, but at age 5, she is making progress — moving her arms and legs — and she and her two siblings were recently adopted by their grandparents.