Man Pleads guilty - 2 years ago 77 year old mother of hostage ran him out of house with her gun

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MACHIAS, Maine — The trial of a Baileyville man accused of taking a Princeton woman hostage in her home before he was forced out at gunpoint by the woman’s mother came to an abrupt end Tuesday afternoon when he decided to plead guilty to the 2009 incident.

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Doris Gatchell testified Tuesday that she returned home about 90 minutes later to find Moore and her daughter sitting in the living room. The older woman said she was surprised to see Moore sitting in her house and asked him what he was doing there but did not realize anything was wrong right away since the gun was hidden from her view. Moore simply told her he was talking and visiting with her daughter, she said.

A few minutes later, after Vanessa Gatchell managed to whisper to her mother in the kitchen that Moore had a gun, the older woman retrieved a handgun she had stashed in her bedroom. She said she and her deceased husband had operated a sporting goods store for 20 years, so she knew how to handle a firearm.

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“I said, ‘I also have a gun and it is loaded and you will get the hell out of my house now,’” Gatchell told the jury.

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/26/news/trial-ends-abruptly-as-baileyville-man-pleads-guilty-to-taking-princeton-woman-hostage/

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