FARMINGTON – A Franklin County justice ordered a Livermore Falls man accused of armed robbery to be held on $50,000 cash or $100,000 surety bail.

Robert T. Judd, 32, of 393 Fayette Road, made an initial appearance in Franklin County Superior Court on Friday.

Wilton police had a warrant for Judd’s arrest after he was accused of robbing a 27-year-old Wilton man on Curve Street in Wilton on Dec. 9.

Judd was arrested on the warrant by Auburn police Wednesday.

Franklin County Assistant District Attorney James Andrews requested the high bail. He told the court that Judd had a criminal record that includes convictions on two counts of robbery in 2007 and drug trafficking the same year.

Defense attorney Carol Webb said Judd could only make $1,000 bail.

According to a Wilton police affidavit, the victim contacted police at about 6:20 p.m. on Dec. 9 saying  he had been hit on the head and robbed at gunpoint. He told police he did not know the robber but was able to identify a back-seat passenger in the car that carried his assailant, the document states.

The victim told police he had been walking home from a friend’s house when the vehicle approached him.

He described the robber, who police now say is Robert Judd, as having no front teeth and wearing what looked like a camouflage jacket, jeans and a baseball hat with a flat bill.

The victim said he was struck by Judd and knocked to the ground. He saw Judd pull a black handgun from the waist of his pants. He told police Judd put the gun to his face with his finger on the trigger and told him that he will shoot him and to give him all of his money, that affidavit states.

The victim told police Judd reached into the victim’s front pocket and took about $2,000 in cash.

Sgt. Richard Billian Jr. wrote in the affidavit that the victim had a large bump on the left side of his cheek where he indicated Judd struck him.

The victim’s girlfriend confirmed that her boyfriend was assaulted by a front-seat passenger and who had a black handgun pointing it at the victim.

A witness, also a passenger in the back of the suspect vehicle, told police that Judd punched the victim in the face and then picked up a bag of pills that the victim dropped on the ground, the affidavit states. The witness denied seeing a handgun.

The driver of the vehicle that Judd was a passenger in was located at her residence in Rumford, the affidavit states. She identified the passengers in the vehicle, one of them Judd. She told police she looked out the passenger-side window and saw the victim punch Judd in the back of the head and then Judd punched the victim in the face, knocking him to the ground, according to the affidavit.

The driver confirmed that she let Judd and the witness back into the car. She also told police that the witness passed a bag of what she was told was Percocet. She told police that Judd split the pills with the witness in the back seat of the vehicle. She also told police she didn’t see a handgun, the affidavit states.

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