A 73-year-old man who was sentenced to 35 years in prison died at the Mountain View Correctional Facility on Monday.

Richard Blaine Sweet’s death at around 8:25 a.m. was attended by medical personnel, according to the Maine Department of Corrections. The state attorney general and medical examiner’s office have been notified of his death.

Sweet started serving his sentence in 1998 for a gross sexual assault conviction.

He was originally from Waterville.

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