The Portland man accused of stabbing to death the founder of Granny’s Burritos last year entered an insanity plea.
That plea of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity was entered Wednesday in Cumberland County Superior Court, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Jonathan Alas, 29, pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of 58-year-old Christopher Godin back in April 2023.
Godin was found dead in a hallway of the Cumberland Avenue apartment building where he and Alas lived about 7 p.m. Feb. 17, 2023. Alas also was found with severe injuries and taken to Maine Medical Center, where he was treated before being transferred to the Cumberland County Jail.
Alas remains at the jail, where he was being held without bail, the Press Herald reported.
He was scheduled to go to trial in January, according to the newspaper.
Godin was fondly remembered by friends and foodies in Portland, where he started Granny’s Burritos in the 1990s and ran out of several locations before eventually landing at the Portland Public House until he closed for good in 2017. He briefly ran a Granny’s Burritos location out of the Sunday River ski area in Newry.
