A Sebago man who served a month in jail in 2009 for charges stemming from a road rage incident is back in trouble with the law after violating terms of his probation.

On Wednesday, Douglas Tenczar, 43, was a passenger in a 1996 GMC van driven by Matthew Cone of Freeport. The two were traveling along Route 113 near the Baldwin/Standish line at 7:30 p.m. when a Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputy observed the van’s taillights were off. Deputy Matt Thompson stopped Cone and while talking to Cone observed Tenczar, whom the deputy determined to be on probation, to be intoxicated.

The deputy transported Tenczar to the Cumberland County Jail, where a blood alcohol test confirmed Tenczar had a .22 blood alcohol level, more than double Maine’s legal driving limit of .08. While Tenczar wasn’t driving, he was still violating probation by possessing and consuming alcohol.

On Aug. 14, 2009, Tenczar was given two years of probation after pleading no contest to charges stemming from a road rage incident in October 2008 and subsequent police standoff.

On the 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. The deputies went to his Sebago home, arriving at around 6:30 p.m., just after dark.

The 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.

The 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 to arrest Tenczar who was hit in the right arm.

Tenczar was severely wounded in the shooting, and ultimately lost his arm. Hall and Welsh were later found to be justified in the shooting. Just before a trial was to start in August 2009, Tenczar pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of displaying a dangerous weapon, for pointing a shotgun at police. He also pleaded guilty to one count of criminal threatening, a felony, for threatening the teenage girls with a handgun.

Douglas Tenczar