A man who drunkenly drove off a cliff in Acadia National Park pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday morning.
Eric Amos Jipson III of Lincoln pleaded guilty to operating under the influence of alcohol in U.S. District Court in Bangor. A charge of operating under the influence of alcohol .08 or above was dismissed.
Jipson was sentenced to six months of probation, according to court records.
He was driving around 8:40 p.m., June 27 in Acadia National Park near Sand Beach when he crashed through cones and down a 35-foot cliff, court records said. Two park rangers hiked down the cliff where they identified Jipson as the driver, and found his speech was slow and slurred with “regular cursing.”
Jipson was not physically injured.
