An Oxford man was sentenced on Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland to 20 months in prison after a confrontation with police in which he was shot.
Brandon Dearborn, 31, pleaded guilty on January 31 to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
On August 31, 2022, a 911 caller reported seeing a man with a gun in Mexico, Maine, according to court documents. At the scene, police identified the man as Dearborn and ordered him to drop the gun, a Ruger .22 pistol. In a body cam video, Dearborn appears to tell the officers to “shoot me dead.”
When he did not drop the gun, a police officer shot him with a Taser, then, along with a second officer opened fire on Dearborn, injuring him.
Dearborn was prohibited from having a gun based on an Oct. 26, 2020, felony conviction for furnishing scheduled drugs.
