A man arrested during a protest last summer in which police used a Taser stun gun has pleaded guilty to trespassing.
Under the plea entered Thursday, a resisting arrest charge against Jonathan Crowell of West Dummerston was dropped. He was fined 200-dollars.
Crowell and Samantha Kilmurray were arrested July 24 after chaining themselves to a barrel and refusing to move from a lot where they were protesting potential development. Police used a Taser on both, and they have filed a civil suit over it.
Kilmurray has been referred to court diversion.
The incident prompted town officials to rewrite their use-of-force policy for police, and a consultant who reviewed the case found that officers at the scene ignored instructions to not be “heavy-handed” with the protesters.