POCATELLO - A local man who violated the terms of his probation by pulling an imitation firearm on a store clerk last July 4 was back in court Monday after successfully completing a six-month alternative to prison.

Paul B. Rademacher, 47, was charged with disorderly conduct and exhibiting an imitation weapon at the K & B Qwik Stop on Hawthorne Road. The clerk alerted authorities after the incident and Rademacher's probation officer issued a warrant for his arrest.

Former Sixth District Judge Ronald E. Bush revoked Rademacher's probation on a 2007 burglary conviction and sentenced him to the rider program, which addresses underlying problems of criminal behavior in a nonprison setting.

Rademacher appeared Monday before Bush's successor, Stephen S. Dunn, for a review of his rider term. Dunn expressed some surprise that the recommendation was positive, noting Rademacher had garnered two written warnings and several other non-written notices for his behavior.

"I will prove to the State that I'm worthy of this," Rademacher said, referring to an agreement to place him back on probation.

Dunn reimposed the original terms of Rademacher's sentence, five year's fixed and two indeterminate. He then suspended the sentence and placed Rademacher on high-level supervision during his the five years he will be on probation.