Maine deputy killed in snowmobile crash hit snowdrift that threw him from machine

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 25, 2022

The off-duty Penobscot County deputy sheriff who was killed Sunday in a snowmobile crash died after he hit a snowdrift that threw him off his machine. Bobbie Pelletier, 47, was riding his 2019 Arctic Cat Thundercat 9000 on a snowmobile trail on the Loring Air Force Base property in Limestone around 3:15 p.m. Sunday when he was killed. Pelletier was traveling at a high speed when he died.