The state of Maine wants Eliot Cutler’s probation revoked after he was found in possession of pornographic DVDs and a DVD player, court documents reveal.
Maine State Police ran into the disgraced former gubernatorial candidate at a hotel in South Portland on Monday when he allegedly confessed to possessing pornography, according to a police report released Wednesday. Cutler is not allowed to possess pornography as part of his probation conditions.
During the encounter, Cutler started to weep and said, “yes I messed up, please don’t do this please don’t do this,” the police report said.
He then said that he “can’t help himself” and that he’s had this problem for 65 years. Cutler is 79.
This is the third time Cutler allegedly violated his probation for a 2023 conviction for possession of child sex abuse materials. Last month, a judge imposed higher bail and more strict conditions on Cutler after he allegedly looked up pornographic materials on the internet on Dec. 28 and Jan. 2 from his home in Brooklin, according to court documents.
The report details how police ran into Cutler by chance in the parking lot of the DoubleTree by Hilton. It was released about an hour before his court appearance on Wednesday.
State police with the special victims unit were at the hotel for an unrelated case when they saw Cutler in the hotel parking lot and walked up to him, the report said. Cutler had a brown paper bag and a stack of black DVD cases when an agent asked what he was holding.
Cutler tried to “quickly place something behind his back” to conceal the items, the report said. He was holding empty DVD containers, which police later found to be pornographic DVDs.
Agents searched Cutler’s hotel room and found a new DVD player and 10 pornographic DVDs with adult women, the report said. There was a Walmart receipt for the DVD player in Cutler’s pockets.
Cutler is scheduled to be in court at 1 p.m. Wednesday. He is on the Maine Sex Offender Registry.
Cutler was sentenced to four years in prison, with all but nine months suspended. He was released because of good behavior after serving 33 weeks. The state’s “Good Time” law allows incarcerated people to earn five to seven days per month of good behavior.
He had served about a third of his six-year probation at the time of his first alleged violation.