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man shot last year during a confrontation with police at his home

will serve 30 days in jail and up to two years’ probation in a plea

deal made with prosecutors just before the start of his trial

Monday in Portland.

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Tenczar, who lost his right arm in the incident, pleaded no contest

to a misdemeanor count of displaying a dangerous weapon, for

pointing a shotgun at police. The 41-year-old will serve 30 days in

jail beginning Aug. 14.

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pleaded guilty to one count of criminal threatening, a felony, for

threatening a car of teenage girls with a handgun immediately prior

to the shooting. If Tenczar stays out of trouble, the criminal

threatening charge will be dropped after one year, and he will be

allowed to enter a no-contest plea, which will come with an

additional year of probation.

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Attorney Stephanie Anderson said the plea gives Tenczar an

opportunity to get his life in order, and, if he does not, he faces

further punishment.

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<p style="

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situation doesn’t motivate him to get sober and stay sober, then,

number one, nothing will, and number two, we’ll know and he’ll end

up with a felony conviction,” Anderson said. “He’s got a lot

hanging over his head.”

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<p style="

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night of Oct. 22, Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies went to

Tenczar’s house after three teenage girls said a man had waved a

handgun at them on Route 114. The teens provided a license plate

number to the deputies, who then matched the plates to Tenczar and

went to his home, arriving at around 6:30 p.m., just after

dark.

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deputies then surrounded the house, with Deputy Stephen Welsh going

out back and another deputy to the side. Sgt. David Hall then

knocked on the side door, which deputies said looked like the

house’s main entrance.

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deputies watched as Tenczar, who was lying on the floor, stood up.

Welsh yelled for Tenczar to come out, but the defendant ran from

the room and returned with a shotgun. Moving in a low

“military-style” crouch, Tenczar neared the door and raised his

shotgun in Hall’s direction. When Tenczar followed Hall with the

shotgun as the sergeant moved, Welsh opened fire through the back

sliding glass doors. After the first shot, Hall also fired at

Tenczar. The officers then moved into the house.

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was severely wounded in the shooting, and ultimately lost his

right, dominant arm.

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was charged with two counts of criminal threatening, one for the

incident with the teenage girls and one for pointing the gun at

police. The counts were to be tried in separate trials, a judge

ruled.

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of the separate trials, the jury in the case involving the police

shooting would not have heard about the incident with the girls in

the car, Anderson said.

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<p style="

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jury was not going to hear any context for why the police were

there,” she said. “We thought that posed a real problem.”

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<p style="

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also said a jury may have felt sympathy for Tenczar because of his

injuries.

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<p style="

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look at him and say, ‘geez, he’s suffered enough.’ It happens,” she

said.

Douglas Tenczar