GRAY — Maine’s attorney general questioned a New Gloucester man Wednesday about his allegations that an alleged child molester had a cozy relationship with law enforcement officers that earned him special treatment.

Attorney General Michael Carpenter said he interviewed Mark A. Sanborn, 31, in his lawyer’s office for two hours, focusing on allegations spelled out in a civil suit that Sanborn and six other men filed last week against Warren Cole, who has been charged with child sexual abuse.

“We exchanged a lot of information. It’s too early to say if there’s anything there that we would act upon,” Carpenter said.

The meeting also was attended by Brian McMaster, Carpenter’s director of investigations; Lawrence J. Zuckerman, the Gray lawyer representing Sanborn and the other plaintiffs, and Sanborn’s wife.

The suit alleges that Cole, a co-founder of the Cole Farms restaurant in Gray, had sexually molested the seven plaintiffs from 1972 to 1987, when they were boys.