AUGUSTA — A judge Friday indicated he would continue tight restrictions on two men who were returned to Riverview Psychiatric Center after allegations that they were dealing drugs while under the supervision of hospital outpatient teams.

Justice Donald Marden said he would issue an order allowing Kristian McKay to leave the hospital only to enter an intensive residential facility for substance abuse treatment on the recommendation of his treatment team and ordered continued hospitalization at Riverview for William Bruce. Both men were committed to the custody of the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services after being found not criminally responsible for murdering a parent in separate cases.

McKay, now 29, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in November 2007 in the slaying of his father. He had been living in a supervised apartment off hospital grounds since October 2012 and had a number of privileges until his rehospitalization Jan. 13 for “violating his court order by using and distributing illegal substances.”

Bruce, now 33, was found not criminally responsible for the June 20, 2006, killing of his mother in their Caratunk home. He was permitted to live at a group home on Glenridge Drive and had up to 30 hours of unsupervised time in the community per week.

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