BANGOR – An Exeter man was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and methamphetamine.

Richard “Ricky” Fournier, 41, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release after his release.

He was arrested last July in Judy’s Restaurant in Bangor. During a search of his trailer near the Exeter Town Hall, law enforcement officials found 30 grams of methamphetamine and 221 pills of oxycodone.

The maximum sentence for the offense is 20 years in prison, a fine of between $10,000 and $2 million or both.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Perry recommended Fournier be sentenced to 64 months in prison. He told U.S. District Court Judge George Singal that three days after Fournier was released on bail with the condition that he wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements, the man cut the device off his ankle and skipped bail.

The device was defective, according to Perry, and did not sound an alarm as it should have when Fournier removed it.

Maine State Police found the ankle monitor, along with court documents bearing Fournier’s name, in an abandoned car in LaGrange. A woman told troopers that a drunken man ran off into the nearby woods after the car he was driving struck her vehicle.

Perry said Tuesday that Fournier was apprehended four days later at a friend’s in Old Orchard Beach. He had dyed his hair and was packing a car in an apparent attempt to flee the state.

About 20 friends and family members attended Fournier’s sentencing. Many quietly wept as Singal imposed the sentence, then hugged the Exeter man before he was handcuffed and removed from the courtroom by federal marshals.