CONWAY — The Carroll County attorney has withdrawn a no-prison plea deal that was proposed for a former drug and alcohol counselor charged with sexually assaulting a client in 2016.
Peter Stone of North Conway, now 69, was arrested on July 9, 2021, and charged with five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault by a treatment provider.
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