Eliot Cutler is back in jail for allegedly violating the terms of his probation for a sixth time, but his attorney thinks he may have been unjustly accused.
The disgraced two-time former gubernatorial candidate who was convicted in May 2023 of possessing child sexual abuse materials, previously had been accused of violating his probation conditions five times since September 2025.
The 79-year-old Brooklin resident was booked on Thursday at 2:05 p.m., according to an inmate search.
His attorney Walter McKee told the BDN on Thursday that, based on the information he has, Cutler was arrested “for failing to sign a probation treatment plan document that had internet restrictions that were completely inconsistent with what the court specifically ordered last week.”
Cutler had been out on bail since late May, and earlier this month was granted supervised internet access while on probation.
“If this [is] in fact what it was, it will be hotly contested, and he should be released immediately,” McKee said.
Prior to that time, he had been incarcerated since February, when Maine State Police allegedly found him in South Portland with pornographic DVDs, violating the terms of his release.
At his May bail hearing, Cutler told a Hancock County judge that he would not have entered the pornography shop to buy the DVDs, if he hadn’t been in such “bad shape” over his lack of internet access.
BDN writer Sabrina Martin contributed reporting.
