Matthew Pelletier, 31, of Pittston pled guilty through an Alford plea for charges stemming from a December 2015 incident in Wiscasset in which Pelletier head-butted then-Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline and kicked out the windows of a police cruiser.

An Alford plea is a guilty plea, but allows the defendant to appeal the conviction at a later time.

Pelletier had originally been charged with Assault on an Officer and Aggravated Criminal Mischief, both Class C felonies, as well as Refusing To Submit to Detention or Arrest, a Class D misdemeanor. He had also initially been charged with domestic violence assault, after he grabbed the wheel of a car in which he was a passenger and steered it into a ditch. That charge was dismissed early in the court proceedings.

As part of a deferred disposition, the charges were reduced in a “good” outcome to Refusing to Submit, Class D, Assault, Class D, and Criminal Mischief, Class D. The guilty plea will be deferred for 12 months. If Pelletier has no other criminal charges in the meantime, he will not have felonies on his record. If it doesn’t go well, however, the original charges will stand.

In the good outcome, Pelletier will serve 30 days in jail for all charges, served concurrently, and make a restitution payment of $240 to the Wiscasset Police Department.

The disposition was worked out in court on May 23.