AUGUSTA — A judge on Friday indicated he would continue tight restrictions on two men who were returned to Riverview Psychiatric Center after allegations that they were dealing drugs while under the supervision of hospital outpatient teams.

Justice Donald Marden said he would issue an order allowing Kristian McKay to leave the hospital only to enter an intensive residential facility for substance abuse treatment on the recommendation of his treatment team and ordered continued hospitalization at Riverview for William Bruce.

Both men were committed to the custody of the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services after being found not criminally responsible for murdering a parent in separate cases.

McKay, now 29, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in November 2007 in the slaying of his father. He had been living in a supervised apartment off hospital grounds since October 2012 and had a number of privileges until his rehospitalization Jan. 13 for “violating his court order by using and distributing illegal substances.”

Marden, however, said he would allow McKay time in the community if supervised by the Riverview staff.

The decisions followed hearings for both men in Kennebec Superior Court cases at the Capital Judicial Center. The state had requested that privileges be revoked.

Bruce’s attorney, J. Mitchell Flick, told the judge he had filed a motion to modify those conditions and he expected that would be addressed at a hearing later this year.

Bruce, now 33, was found not criminally responsible for the June 20, 2006, killing of his mother in their Caratunk home. He was permitted to live at a group home on Glenridge Drive and had up to 30 hours of unsupervised time in the community per week.

Court records show Bruce admitted to the hospital staff on Jan. 9 that he had used cocaine and Ritalin and illegally distributed Xanax and Ritalin to another outpatient.

Assistant Attorney General Laura Yustak Smith, representing the state, told the judge she sought continued revocation of Bruce’s privileges “based on his use of cocaine and receipt of Xanax (used to control anxiety) and Ritalin (used to control hyperactivity) from another patient and providing drugs to other people.”

She asked Marden to order him confined to the hospital with no unsupervised time in the community.

Miriam Davidson, a psychiatric nurse practitioner treating Bruce at the hospital, testified Friday that Bruce’s substance abuse could interfere with the medication being used to treat his psychotic disorder.

Marden asked her about when police would be called in, but then indicated the question was directed more properly at the hospital administration.

“Here you’ve got a serious felony going on,” Marden said.

Ann LeBlanc, director of the State Forensic Service, which evaluates patients on behalf of the court, testified she agreed that Bruce should remain under constant supervision.

“He’s demonstrated he’s able to plan, initiate and carry out illegal behavior while living in the community,” she said.

Riverview has been under scrutiny by federal regulators for a year and a half after corrections officers were brought into the hospital to handle particularly assaultive patients.

And on Jan. 12, Jason Begin, a former Riverview patient, was shot by an Augusta police officer responding to the offices of the Riverview Outpatient Services program in the former MaineGeneral Medical Center location on East Chestnut Street. Police said Begin was armed with a knife.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

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