Monson man charged in altercation with deputies

By Mike Lange
Staff Writer

    MONSON — A 56-year-old Monson man remains in custody after being charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and reckless conduct with a firearm.
    Quinton King was shot in the rib cage area after allegedly pointed a rifle at two Piscataquis County deputies serving a protection from harassment order against him on March 12.

    King appeared before Justice William Anderson Monday afternoon where his bail was continued at $75,000 surety or $10,000 cash.
    According to Sheriff John Goggin, Deputies Kyle Wilson and David Wilson attempted to serve an order on King at his residence on Nana’s Drive, a small dirt road off Tenney Hill in Monson.
    According to authorities, after deputies went to King’s home, knocked on the door and explained why they were there, King slammed the door.
    As the deputies were leaving the area, King “stepped outside with a rifle and started loading it,” said the sheriff. The deputies told him to drop the weapon, but he reportedly pointed it directly at the officers. One of the officers fired a single shot that passed through King’s rib cage and hit him in the arm, the sheriff said.
    “He dropped the weapon, but when the deputies started walking toward him, he acted as if he was going to pick it up again. Then the officer hit with him a Taser,” Goggin said.
    King was taken to Mayo Regional Hospital at first, and then transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He was released from the hospital Friday evening and taken to the Piscataquis County jail.
    Goggin said that the investigation is continuing into what prompted King’s actions.
    “He threatened the town office employees, some firefighters and his neighbors before this all started,” Goggin said.
    Part of the investigation has been turned over to the Maine attorney general’s office, which routinely handles officer-related shootings.