AUGUSTA — A DNA analyst told a jury Monday that murder defendant Justin Pillsbury’s blood was found smeared on the front door, the kitchen cabinets, the sink, the microwave, and part of the living room wall in the Augusta apartment where he is accused of killing his girlfriend, Jillian T. Jones.

Police also found Pillsbury’s blood on all but one of the four knives detectives seized from the Crosby Street residence.

Pillsbury, 41, of Augusta, went on trial Monday, accused of murdering Jones by stabbing her to death on the night of Nov. 13, 2013, in the apartment the couple shared with another man.

The jury in a courtroom on the second floor of the Capital Judicial Center heard and saw evidence in the state’s case against Pillsbury, who has pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with intentional or knowing or depraved indifference murder.

One of Pillsbury’s defense attorneys, Caleb Gannon, told jurors Pillsbury acted in self-defense after being stabbed three times by Jones. Gannon also said jurors would hear directly from Pillsbury about what happened that night.

The prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General David Macomber, began his opening statement by showing the jury a photo of Jones, who was 24 when she was killed.

Macomber said Pillsbury stabbed Jones 12 times after punching her in the head and slamming her against the sink. Macomber said she was stabbed in the back, but the fatal wounds were two in the neck.

Macomber said the motive was jealousy and that “a green-eyed monster was uncaged in that apartment.” Macomber said Pillsbury believed Jones had been communicating with another man on her cellphone, and Pillsbury took it from her following an evening of drinking.

“She grabbed a knife and said, ‘Give me my cellphone back,'” Macomber said.

Gannon showed jurors Jones’ knife, which he said was covered in Pillsbury’s blood.

“It was used to cut and stab Justin,” Gannon said. Then he showed Pillsbury’s knife, which was also seized.

Macomber rejected the self-defense theory, saying Jones was “a foot shorter and almost 100 pounds lighter” than Pillsbury.

The first witness, Augusta Police Sgt. Vicente Morris, testified while the jury viewed a video which showed a large smear of blood on the floor near the door with Pillsbury face down near the kitchen sink and blood on the soles of his bare feet. Augusta paramedic/firefighters rushed him to MaineGeneral Medical Center where he was treated for his neck wounds.

Police have said Pillsbury killed Jones in the Augusta apartment they shared and then tried to kill himself by stabbing himself in the neck. At his first court hearing in November 2013, his neck was bandaged.

Jones, a native of Bingham, was attending beauty school in Waterville at the time of her death.

On Monday, about 10 family and friends of Jones watched the morning session from the back rows of the courtroom, moving to the front rows later in the morning.

Maine State Police Detective Scott Bryant testified that he used an “immersive imaging” camera to take 360-degree views of the scene and then went on to describe those, plus other still photos taken by fellow officers inside the apartment.

The inside of the front door was spattered with blood, as were the walls, appliances, a knife in the sink, a knife beside the sink, a knife on the floor near a trash can and a knife not far from where Jones’ body lay face up on the floor of the bathroom.

Jones, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was barefoot as well, with blood on her feet. In the image, she is wearing a white shirt and black sweat pants, and her right hand rests across her abdomen. Her right hip is near a long black-handled knife.

Jones’ blood, testified DNA analyst Catharine MacMillan, was found on swabs taken from the bathroom wall between the sink and the toilet and on the bedroom carpet and in two of three spots tested on the white blanket that covered the bed in the bedroom.

Tests of blood found on a bent, butcher-type knife that investigators found in the kitchen sink showed DNA profiles from both Pillsbury and Jones, MacMillan testified.

In one photo, the knife lies on the left side of the stainless steel double sink near a couple of white dinner plates, a utensil and a bottle of liquid dish detergent.

Alison Gingras, a forensic chemist at the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory, testified that the blade was bent at about a 90-degree angle.

All four knives boxed separately and wrapped separately in clear plastic evidence bags were shown to jurors Monday as was an orange quilted purse that was sitting on the blue countertop in the bathroom in one of the images.

The bags of evidence were piled on top of a table at the front of the courtroom just below Justice Michaela Murphy’s seat.

Dr. Margaret Greenwald, the state’s former chief medical examiner who saw Jones’ body at the scene and conducted the autopsy the following day, used three different pages of diagrams in describing each of the 12 knife wounds in Jones’ body.

They were deep stab wounds, including one that pierced vital blood vessels as it went through Jones’ neck and more superficial ones in her scalp and back.

Greenwald said toxicology tests showed caffeine, marijuana, an antihistamine and an amphetamine were present in Jones’ system as well as a blood alcohol content of 0.13. In Maine, the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

Greenwald also described the wounds suffered by Justin Pillsbury, which were shown to jurors in large, foam-backed printed photographs.

She said it showed a “sharp force injury” on the index finger of his left hand and told defense attorney Stephen Smith that it could be consistent with a defensive wound. Greenwald also said another injury on Pillsbury’s left eyebrow could have bled into his eye and could have interfered with vision.

Augusta Paramedic/EMT and firefighter Aldebert Hume, who was among those treating Pillsbury at the apartment and in the ambulance, testified that Pillsbury had no pulse when emergency responders found him.

“He was close to dying,” Hume testified. Then, as Pillsbury started to regain consciousness in the ambulance, he told the paramedics to let him die “because I did it,” Hume said. He said Pillsbury said he stabbed his girlfriend and then stabbed himself.

The prosecution was to continue with its witnesses on Tuesday. Jurors were told to be at the courthouse by 9 a.m.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

AUGUSTA

Saturday at 12:25 a.m., trespassing was reported on State Street.

Sunday at 8:01 a.m., simple assault was reported on Water Street.

10:36 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Maple Street.

11:30 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

12:23 p.m., officers recovered needles on Northern Avenue.

12:42 p.m., theft was reported on Kendall Street.

1:27 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Bangor and Noyes streets.

2:32 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Northern Avenue.

3:28 p.m., officers recovered needles on Eastern Avenue and Spring Road.

3:55 p.m. a fireworks complaint was made on Newland Avenue.

6:34 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Bangor Street.

9:07 p.m., there was a disturbance reported on Sewall Street.

Monday at 12:53 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Belgrade Road.

1:38 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue and Edison Drive.

2:11 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Bangor Street.

6:19 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Riverside Drive.

GARDINER

Friday at 9:53 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Water Street.

Saturday at 3:35 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Highland Avenue.

Sunday at 9:32 a.m., theft was reported on Highland Avenue.

2:19 p.m., there was a suspicious vehicle reported on Capen Road.

2:53 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Main Avenue.

7:11 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Pleasant Street.

MANCHESTER

Sunday at 7:51 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Summerhaven Road.

8:12 p.m., there was a traffic accident on U.S. Route 202.

MONMOUTH

Sunday at 5:51 p.m., theft was reported on Main Street.

ARRESTS

AUGUSTA

Sunday at 11:25 a.m., Angelia M. Carrigan, 38, of Augusta, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle after habitual offender revocation after a traffic stop on Bridge and North streets.

GARDINER

Saturday at 11:12 a.m., Paul A. Wheelock, 23, of Gardiner, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after an incident on Mechanic Street.

READFIELD

Sunday at 6:16 p.m., Mathew John Curtis, 41, of Readfield, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after an incident on Terrace Road.

Augusta detectives on Monday investigated a burglary in the vicinity of Green Street, according to Deputy Chief Jared Mills.

A search with a police dog yielded no results, Mills said via email, and detectives continued to speak to the victim, who interrupted the burglary while it was in progress. Mills did not say whether the homeowner was injured.

A woman who answered the phone at Lincoln School, which is about a block away from Green Street, said at 3:20 p.m. police were in the area so the school kept students inside. A representative from the school department said the school was not officially placed on lockdown.

IN ANSON, Sunday at 10:16 a.m., a report of theft was investigated on Union Street.

3:50 p.m., an intoxicated person was reported on River Road.

Monday at 8:41 a.m., a harassment complaint was reported on Carrabassett Road.

IN CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Sunday at 11:47 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Access Road.

IN CLINTON, Sunday at 3:48 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Silver Street.

IN FAIRFIELD, Sunday at 5:03 p.m., a report of domestic disturbance was investigated on Oakland Road.

7:09 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Western Avenue.

9:52 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Skowhegan Road.

IN FARMINGTON, Sunday at 12:08 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Front Street.

6:39 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Stanley Road.

IN HARMONY, Sunday at 4:20 p.m., a report of a disturbance was investigated on Highland Avenue.

IN MADISON, Sunday at 12:30 p.m., trespassing was reported on Main Street.

11:01 p.m., a report of an intoxicated person was investigated on Main Street.

IN MOSCOW, Sunday at 6:13 p.m., a report of violation of bail was investigated on Mayfield Road.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Monday at 6:36 a.m., a report of loud noise or music was investigated on Pine Street.

IN PALMYRA, Sunday at 10:58 p.m., a structure fire was reported on Camp Road.

IN PHILLIPS, Sunday at 7:14 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Rangeley Road.

IN PITTSFIELD, Sunday at 12:55 p.m., a report of trespassing was investigated on Fourth Street.

8:56 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Phillips Corner Road.

Monday at 8:53 a.m., a report of larceny or fraud was investigated on Dorothy Street.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Sunday at 10:40 p.m., a motor vehicle stop led to an arrest on Pleasant Street.

Monday at 2:29 a.m., a report of disturbance was investigated on Poplar Street.

IN ST. ALBANS, Sunday at 10:51 a.m., a report of threatening was investigated on Square Road.

4:59 p.m., a scam complaint was investigated on Melody Lane.

IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 10:24 a.m., police were unable to locate suspicious activity reported at the St. Francis Apartments on Elm Street.

12:27 p.m., a report of a domestic dispute was investigated on Sturtevant Street.

1:10 p.m., criminal trespassing was reported at the Waterville Public Library on Elm Street.

3:14 p.m., a report of theft was investigated at the Maine Smoke Shop on College Avenue.

3:15 p.m., threatening was reported on Leighton Street.

4:32 p.m., harassment was reported at the Home Place Inn on College Avenue.

5:40 p.m., a pedestrian check led to an arrest at the intersection of King and Gold streets.

5:51 p.m., an arrest was made on Sturtevant Street.

8:08 p.m., a report of theft was investigated on Gray Street.

10:10 p.m., an unwanted person was reported at Marjory Towers on Summer Street.

10:58 p.m., a report of disturbance was investigated on King Street.

IN WINSLOW, Sunday at 3:22 p.m., a motor vehicle stop led to an arrest on Clinton Avenue.

10:32 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Bassett Road.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Sunday at 3:11 p.m., Lucas Martinez, 30, of Farmington, was arrested on a charge of violation of a protection order.

7:32 p.m., Robert Bernier, 47, of New Vineyard, was arrested on a charge of obstructing the report of a crime.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Sunday at 2:17 p.m., Antonio Jermaine Parker, 41, of Skowhegan, was arrested on charges of assault on two counts and refusing to sign a summons.

IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 4:23 p.m., Hollie Painchaud, 33, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

5:40 p.m., Justin Sinclair, 29, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of refusing to submit to arrest or detention.

A Brooklyn, New York, man arrested in Augusta 20 months ago on multiple charges again faces charges in central Maine.

William K. Seabron, 24, also known as “Haze,” is charged with multiple counts of unlawful trafficking in heroin and crack cocaine as well as theft by receiving stolen property and with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

Seabron was arrested this weekend in southern Maine, according to a press release from the Augusta Police Department.

He remains behind bars in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Police say the charges, brought by Augusta Police Detectives Galen Estes and Brian Wastella, who is a resident agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, resulted from an investigation that lasted for the past few weeks.

“This investigation is another illustration of how the Augusta Police Department, in collaboration with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, is working with the public and our partners to remove drug dealers from our city,” the release says.

In July 2014, Seabron was riding in a taxi on Western Avenue when officers halted it with guns drawn.

He was charged at that time with robbery, marijuana trafficking, misuse of credit identification and unlawful possession of drugs in connection with the theft of purses.

In January 2015, the robbery charge was dismissed and Seabron pleaded guilty to other charges, including misuse of identification and theft by unauthorized taking as well as unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs, and another count of theft by unauthorized taking. He also agreed to a criminal forfeiture of $835 cash.

Seabron was sentenced to 364 days in jail with all but five months suspended and one year probation. He was fined $1,000.

His attorney at the time, Stephen Bourget, said that because Seabron had spent five months in jail on the pending charges, he was released immediately.

Augusta police arrested a 33-year-old man Tuesday after he allegedly used a cast iron frying pan to attack a Pike Street homeowner Monday afternoon in the victim’s home, then fled.

Kristopher Russ, of Augusta, was charged with robbery, aggravated assault, criminal mischief, felony violation of conditions of release and forgery, with no bail allowed.

Deputy Chief Jared Mills said Tuesday the homeowner came home around 2 p.m. Monday and surprised a man who appeared to be searching for things to steal. Mills would not identify the victim, who was treated at the hospital for his injuries.

Mills said the homeowner, who is 80, confronted the intruder and was struck several times with the pan. The homeowner reported the intrusion to the Augusta police.

With the help of the Maine State Police and the Kennebec County sheriff’s dog unit, Augusta police searched in the vicinity of Pike and Green streets for nearly two hours, but the suspect remained at large. Police issued a description of the suspect.

“Earlier (Monday), some witnesses saw the subject walking in the area, or someone matching that description,” Mills said. “We suspect that, based on everything we were told, that the suspect was looking for something unoccupied, and the homeowner came home and at the time he had broken in.”

About 5 p.m. Tuesday, police received a tip from the public which helped them find Russ, according to a police news release. More than 10 patrol officers and detectives worked to piece together the evidence collected in the case, enabling investigators to identify Russ as the person responsible for the crime.

Russ had been free but subject to bail conditions for various charges, including burglary and possession of a firearm by a felon, so he was transferred to the Kennebec County jail for holding.

Before Russ was arrested, police said the intruder had made off with an undisclosed amount of money.

AUGUSTA — The man who shared an apartment with Justin Pillsbury and Jillian Jones told jurors Tuesday he came home one night in November 2013 to find Pillsbury injured and Jones unresponsive on the bathroom floor.

Michael St. Pierre took the stand Tuesday, the second day of Pillsbury’s murder trial, who is accused of stabbing Jones to death Nov. 13, 2013.

While testifying at the Capital Judicial Center, St. Pierre said a “nervous” Pillsbury greeted him in the entryway and asked St. Pierre to get him a cigarette. He went and found a cigarette butt from an ashtray outside another apartment.

“I saw splotches of blood on the floor,” St. Pierre testified. “He was bleeding. He had a towel wrapped around his hand.”

St. Pierre said Pillsbury told him he was trying to kill himself, and St. Pierre saw Jones’ body “in a fetal position” on the bathroom floor.

“I went immediately down to see if there was a pulse,” St Pierre said. He found none.

He asked Pillsbury what happened.

“All I can remember is he said he blacked out,” St. Pierre said. “She was on the phone with somebody, a guy or something.”

St. Pierre was given immunity from prosecution by the state prior to testifying that he sharpened a knife for Pillsbury, in an apparent attempt to help him commit suicide. Aiding or soliciting suicide is a class D crime in Maine, subject to a penalty of up to 364 days in jail.

Justice Michaela Murphy granted the state’s motion to compel the testimony and ordered St. Pierre to answer all questions put to him that day. Her instructions and the discussion of immunity were done while the jury was out of the courtroom.

Pillsbury’s attorneys say Pillsbury acted in self-defense and killed Jones, 24, after she came at him with a knife in St. Pierre’s apartment at 32 Crosby St. in Augusta. Evidence collectors found four bloodied knives, with Pillsbury’s DNA on three and a mixture of his and her DNA on the fourth. The state’s former medical examiner, Dr. Margaret Greenwald, testified Monday that Jones had been stabbed 12 times.

Prosecutors say Pillsbury, 41, was jealous and killed Jones after the couple argued about Jones’ communicating with another man on her cellphone.

Jones’ body was found on the floor in the apartment’s bathroom. Rescue personnel found Pillsbury face down on the floor of the kitchen area with blood coloring the floor and lower parts of the cabinets and walls.

St. Pierre testified that Pillsbury told him that he would not harm St. Pierre or St. Pierre’s cat, but that Pillsbury kept pounding a steak knife into his own neck.

St. Pierre said the end of the knife had a rounded tip, so St. Pierre helped.

“I gave him a butcher knife,” St. Pierre testified. “He tried to sharpen it, but he couldn’t do it ’cause his finger was cut. I offered assistance in sharpening it.”

Pillsbury also asked St. Pierre to find a song by a hip-hop band, “A Tribe Called Quest,” before St. Pierre left with the cat in a carrier.

St. Pierre said he found the song on the computer and then went to an apartment next door.

There, he and neighbors called 911. The call time was recorded at 8:03 p.m. on Nov. 13, 2013.

People living in neighboring apartments testified Tuesday that they had spent some time late that afternoon drinking alcohol with Pillsbury and Jones in St. Pierre’s apartment.

Neighbors Christine Spaulding and Rashaad Cook both testified about events earlier that evening.

Spaulding said that at one point she went to St. Pierre’s apartment looking for Cook since he had been gone longer than she expected while getting food from a food pantry in Gardiner.

“I saw a back being thrown up against the door window,” she said, adding that she could see because it separated the venetian blinds. She identified the person as Jones.

“I know Jill. I know her body type and I saw her hair,” Spaulding said.

When defense attorney Stephen Smith asked if she was drinking that day, she said she had five beers over the course of the evening.

She said she also heard arguing before returning to her apartment.

“I went back home because I didn’t want to get involved,” she said.

Cook testified that during the afternoon he had purchased a half gallon of tequila for himself and a fifth of 100-proof vodka for Pillsbury, who had given him money for it.

Cook said he had a couple of shots, some combination of tequila and vodka, between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. at St. Pierre’s while waiting for a ride to the food bank. Cook said he and Pillsbury were dancing and that Jones was sitting on the couch watching them.

He described Pillbury’s mood.

“I would say he was jovial,” he said. “I could tell he had a little something to drink.”

The judge on Tuesday rejected the state’s bid to have Joshua Newhall testify in front of the jury about a text he said he received from Jones on Nov. 13, 2013, telling him she had gone to Pillsbury’s to get her things because she was leaving him.

In testifying while the jury was out of the courtroom, Newhall said he and Jones had lived together before Jones became Pillsbury’s girlfriend and that Newhall and Jones had rekindled their relationship. Murphy ruled that the testimony might be able to come in later.

Another of the state’s witnesses, Brittany Kirk, of Cornville, testified that she was in Pillsbury’s apartment in Benton in July 2013, when Pillsbury accused Jones of cheating on him and shoved her into the couch. Kirk said Jones denied cheating on him.

“I saw the fight,” Kirk said in response to a question from one of the prosecutors, Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber.

She said she heard Jones yell, “Get off me. Get off me.”

Finally, she said, Pillsbury left the apartment and Jones came into another room to be with her.

Smith, a defense attorney, asked Kirk if she helped Jones to cheat on Pillsbury over a period of several months.

Kirk initially denied that, but then said she drove Jones, who did not have a driver’s license, to meet various men, but said not all the meetings were sexual encounters.

One of Pillsbury’s attorneys said in his opening statement that Pillsbury will testify in his own defense.

Kyle Ouellette, a Maine State trooper who specializes in analyzing cellphone records, testified Tuesday about the scores of calls and texts exchanged between Pillsbury and Jones and a number of other people in the four hours just prior to Jones’ death. Ouellette listed the phone numbers and the duration of the calls.

The trial is to resume Wednesday and jurors are expected to hear Maine State Police Detective Christopher Tremblay’s recorded interview of Pillsbury, which took place at MaineGeneral Medical Center. Pillsbury was taken there for treatment of the self-inflicted wounds to his throat.

He has been held in jail since he was discharged from the hospital.

The defense failed to keep those interviews out of the jury trial.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

AUGUSTA

Monday at 7 a.m., traffic complaints were reported at Willow and Bangor streets.

9:22 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Spencer Street.

9:34 a.m., a 59-year-old Oakland woman was issued a summons for failure to register her vehicle.

9:49 a.m., a traffic accident occurred at Commerce and Civic Center drives.

11:07 a.m., a person overdosing was reported on Western Avenue.

12:15 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Baldwin Street.

12:39 p.m., a past burglary was reported on Cony Street.

12:57 p.m., parking violations were reported on Middle Street.

1:42 p.m., a complaint about trespassing was made on Mount Vernon Avenue.

2:08 p.m., a traffic accident was reported Wyman Street.

2:12 p.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Western Avenue.

2:14 p.m., a strong-arm robbery was reported on Pike Street.

3:55 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Civic Center Drive.

4:33 p.m., a complaint about trespassing was made on Western Avenue.

4:56 p.m., fraud was reported on Glenridge Avenue.

5:01 p.m., a complaint about harassment was made on Glenridge Avenue.

5:02 p.m., a sex offense was reported on Medical Center Parkway.

5:28 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Hancock Street.

5:37 p.m., needles were recovered on Civic Center Drive.

5:53 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Congress Street.

5:55 p.m., traffic complaints were reported on Hospital Street.

7:12 p.m., traffic complaints were reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

7:34 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Cony Street.

7:40 p.m., a well-being/mental health check was performed on Mount Vernon Avenue.

8:35 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on North Belfast Avenue.

9 p.m., traffic complaints were reported on Maple Street.

Tuesday at 3:44 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Green Street.

GARDINER

Monday at 9 a.m., a theft was investigated at Gardiner Regional Middle School at 161 Cobbossee Ave.

HALLOWELL

Monday at 7:38 a.m., property was recovered on Coos Lane.

12:27 p.m., a civil complaint was made.

3:21 p.m., city ordinance violations were reported.

LITCHFIELD

Monday at 11:21 p.m., a goat was reported stolen.

MOUNT VERNON

Monday at 12:51 p.m., theft and vandalism were reported on Bean Road.

READFIELD

Monday at 10:31 a.m., vandalism was reported on Plains Road.

ROME

Monday at 5:05 p.m., an assault was reported on Mercer Road.

WHITEFIELD

On March 8, a burglary was reported at a home in Whitefield.

WINTHROP

Sunday at 5:33 p.m., a brush fire was reported on Cummings Lane.

Monday at 8:22 a.m., a well-being check was performed.

ARRESTS

AUGUSTA

Monday at 2:04 p.m., Dane Scott Holmes, 24, of Augusta, was arrested at the Kennebec County jail on a charge of being fugitive from justice.

6:22 p.m., Douglas L. Blaisdell, 74, of Rome, was arrested on a charge of assault.

Tuesday at 3:22 a.m., Anthony Leemanuel Carmona, 37, of Oakland, was arrested on a charge of failure to appear.

A jury verdict in federal court in Bangor this week clearing a Winslow police officer of using excessive force in 2012 is important in the “post-Ferguson world” of community and police relations, the officer’s lawyer said Tuesday.

The jury on Monday cleared Winslow police Officer Haley Fleming of an excessive force charge in connection with a Jan. 2, 2012, incident at a private home.

William and Sandra Sadulsky, of Quimby Lane, had alleged in a civil suit that William Sadulsky’s constitutional rights were violated when officers used a Taser stun gun against him without provocation after responding to a noise complaint at his home. The complaint was filed in 2014 against the town of Winslow and Winslow police Officers Haley Fleming, Joshua Veilleux and Michael Michaud.

A judge in September dismissed the complaint against the town, Michaud and Veilleux, but an excessive force claim against Fleming was allowed to proceed to trial, which began March 9 and concluded Monday.

A jury of five women and three men returned with a unanimous decision that Fleming was within his rights as a police officer to intervene with reasonable force after Sadulsky grabbed Michaud and put him in a headlock, Fleming’s lawyer Edward Benjamin said Tuesday.

Benjamin said the jury’s decision in favor of the police officer is important in the “post-Ferguson world” of general tension between police and the communities they serve. He was referring to the killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown, whose shooting death in 2014 by a white police officer sparked protests and riots in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury later declined to indict Wilson on criminal charges, leading to more protests and further prominence for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Although race wasn’t a factor in the Winslow case — Sadulsky and Fleming are both white — Benjamin said this was the first police excessive force trial to go to trial in Maine in at least a year, and he thinks police officers still want to know that they’ll get a fair shake.

“I think that a lot of people have speculated what’s going on in the country and does it mean that police have lost the benefit of the doubt and the benefit of the public’s trust in these hotly contested matters and when they’re responding to some rapidly evolving situation,” Benjamin said. “I was glad to see it took them very little time to look at the facts in this case and decide it didn’t amount to evidence of any excessive force being used against this person.”

Benjamin said the jury took two hours to consider the verdict after a four-day trial. In federal court, a jury returns with a verdict based on the preponderance of evidence in a civil suit, not based on evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, as seen in criminal cases.

The decision has to be unanimous in both instances, Benjamin said.

“They found there was no excessive force used by Fleming against William Sadulsky,” Benjamin said.

He said the verdict ends all legal proceedings on any of the other theories of constitutional excessive force under the Fourth Amendment and the state’s version of the amendment, along with Sandra Sadulsky’s stress claim of having witnessed the use of excessive force against her husband, Benjamin said by phone Tuesday.

Bangor attorney Joseph Baldacci, who represented Sadulsky, said Tuesday he disagreed with the jury’s decision and is considering an appeal.

“In state court Mr. Sadulsky had been acquitted of an assault charge involving Haley Fleming,” Baldacci said Tuesday. “It was our contention in this case that Mr. Fleming Tasing Bill four times in his home over a noise complaint issue — at 50,000 volts apiece and rapid succession — was excessive force.

The assault case referred to by Baldacci went to Kennebec County Superior Court in September 2012 and resulted in a split decision against Sadulsky, who was found not guilty of an assault on Haley Fleming but guilty of assaulting Michaud, then a reserve officer, on Jan. 2, 2012, in Sadulsky’s home, the same night that prompted the federal excessive force suit.

Benjamin said once the state court found Sadulsky had committed an assault on Michaud, that would give Fleming the right to arrest Sadulsky and the right to use a reasonable degree of force to overcome his resistance to being arrested, which brought the civil suit to federal court.

The couple was asking to be awarded $40,208 in damages to pay for medical bills and damage to their home as a result of the altercation and additional compensation to be determined by the jury.

In the federal civil suit, William Sadulsky said Fleming and Michaud responded to a noise complaint at his home on the evening of Jan. 2, 2012, and when he opened the door to let them in, Fleming charged into the house and pursued Sadulsky to his living room, where he repeatedly stunned him.

Sadulsky claims his rotator cuff was injured when Fleming roughly pulled him up from where he was positioned, handcuffed on the floor. That injury is among a number of severe injuries William Sadulsky and his wife, Sandra Sadulsky, endured as a result of the incident, the plaintiffs argued.

In a trial brief filed with the court, Baldacci said Fleming dealt with the situation in an “unnecessarily confrontational way” and showed “reckless or callous indifference” to Sadulsky’s rights when he forcefully pulled him to his feet.

In his own trial brief, Benjamin said Fleming faced a large, agitated man who quickly became assaultive, which gave him the right to use “a reasonable degree of physical force” to take Sadulsky into custody.

Doug Harlow — 612-2367

dharlow@centralmaine.com

Twitter:@Doug_Harlow

IN ANSON, Tuesday at 6:39 a.m., a harassment complaint was investigated on River Road.

IN BINGHAM, Monday at 5:45 p.m., a report of larceny or fraud was investigated on West Street.

8:38 p.m., a report of domestic disturbance was investigated on Main Street.

IN CHESTERVILLE, Monday at 4:57 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Vienna Road.

IN EMBDEN, Tuesday at 8:47 a.m., harassment was reported on Kennebec River Road.

IN FAIRFIELD, Monday at 1:28 p.m., harassment was reported on High Street.

3:04 p.m., a scam was reported on Martin Stream Road.

Tuesday at 9:53 a.m., a report of threatening was investigated on High Street.

IN FARMINGTON, Monday at 9:32 a.m., a fire hazmat incident was reported on Main Street.

12:14 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Lucy Knowles Road.

IN MADISON, Monday at 3:31 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Nichols Street.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Monday at 5:38 p.m., larceny or fraud was reported on Frederick Corner Road.

IN PITTSFIELD, Monday at 10:43 p.m., a report of disturbance was investigated on Detroit Road.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Monday at 11:39 a.m., larceny or fraud was reported on Water Street.

3:25 p.m., harassment was reported on Family Circle.

4:58 p.m., theft was reported on Poplar Street.

6:25 p.m., a harassment complaint was investigated on Waterville Road.

8:13 p.m., a report of violation of bail was investigated on West Front Street.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Monday at 1:09 a.m., Maxwell Wright, 18, of Weld, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

5:02 p.m., Frank Moody Jr., 36, of Phillips, was arrested on a warrant.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Monday at 12:18 a.m., Ronald James Mayo, 46, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

11:37 a.m., Dalton D. Coolidge, 22, of Farmington, was arrested on a warrant for violation of bail on a domestic violence assault charge.

8:52 p.m., Robert Matthew Carson, 21, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant for unpaid fine on a theft charge.

AUGUSTA — The man accused in the 2013 stabbing death of Jillian T. Jones in Augusta told state police two days after the stabbing that he and Jones were fighting over her cellphone because he suspected she was communicating with another man.

Jurors on Wednesday heard about 90 minutes of a recorded interview with Justin Pillsbury, who is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death in November 2013 in an Augusta apartment.

“I think I might have stabbed her. I think I might have pushed her in the sink or stabbed her,” Pillsbury tells police from his hospital bed two days after Jones was stabbed to death.

“It’s all so foggy and stupid. It wasn’t like over anything,” he says in the recorded interview. “I think I might have stabbed her before she went in the bathroom.”

Jurors listened to the recording on the third day of the trial of Pillsbury, now 41, who is accused of killing Jones in a Crosby Street apartment.

“I remember her saying, ‘Keep your hands off me,'” Pillsbury says, telling police he thought he might have stabbed her in the throat or neck. The two were fighting over her cellphone. He suspected she was communicating with another man and wanted her to unlock it so he could check. She had refused.

Pillsbury is expected to testify in his own defense Thursday, and Justice Michaela Murphy told jurors she anticipated they would be deliberating by late morning or early Thursday afternoon.

When the interview was conducted, Pillsbury was hospitalized for treatment for self-inflicted wounds to his neck in an apparent attempt to commit suicide after Jones’ death.

The Nov. 15, 2013, interview by Maine State Police Detectives Christopher Tremblay and Jonah O’Roak was played as Tremblay was on the witness stand.

At one point, Tremblay asks Pillsbury if he had intended to kill her.

“I guess so,” Pillsbury responds.

He also says, “I just don’t understand what —” then his voice trails off. “She was the best woman I ever met in my life.”

The audio recording was the final item in the prosecution’s presentation of evidence Wednesday, and Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber told the judge that the state was resting its case.

Immediately after that, Justice Michaela Murphy denied a defense motion for acquittal, saying that all three alternative forms of the murder charge — intentional, knowing and depraved indifference — would be sent to the jury.

The defense portion of the case began about 2 p.m. Wednesday when attorney Stephen Smith questioned Deputy Nathan McNally, of the Kennebec Sheriff’s Office, about a response to a 911 call in July 2013 that led him to Jones, whom he found at Neck and River roads in Benton.

McNally said that while his memory of that event was somewhat hazy because it was almost three years ago, he recalled Jones being highly intoxicated and unreasonable.

“Verbally she was pretty fixated on her phone that was missing,” McNally testified.

Jurors heard from Dr. Jonathan Adler, a medical examiner called by the defense, who said stab wounds on Pillsbury’s forearm, index finger and eyebrow were consistent with defensive wounds. He said the series of almost parallel knife wounds on Pillsbury’s neck were “consistent and suggestive of these being self-inflicted.”

Adler said he studied photos plus the report by Dr. Margaret Greenwald, who was Maine’s chief medical examiner when she did the autopsy on Jones’ body.

Greenwald had offered similar opinions on Pillsbury’s injuries in her testimony Monday.

On the recording played in court on Wednesday, Pillsbury’s voice is soft and hoarse, and his words are halting, sometimes with long pauses between them, and he can be heard quietly sobbing at one point.

The judge earlier denied a defense motion to try to keep that recording from being used at the trial.

An attorney for Pillsbury said Pillsbury acted in self-defense after Jones, 24, came after him with a knife in an attempt to retrieve the cellphone he had taken from her. The former chief medical examiner for the state testified that Jones was stabbed 12 times, and that Pillsbury too had been cut.

Four blood-covered knives were found, three of them with Pillsbury’s DNA on them and one with a mixture of DNA from both of them, forensic scientists testified.

Pillsbury was jealous of Jones and believed she was communicating with another man, according to testimony Tuesday by Michael St. Pierre, in whose apartment police found Pillsbury face down and bleeding heavily in the kitchen area and Jones dead on the bathroom floor.

Images of the apartment, with bloodstained walls, doors, floors and cabinets, have been shown to the jury and displayed on large monitors in the courtroom at the Capital Judicial Center.

On the audio recording, Pillsbury answers questions about himself, telling detectives he lived in the Augusta area until he was 14, went to school in Fairfield, graduating from high school in 1993, then taking two years off before entering the University of Maine, where he spent two years. He also spent five years in the Maine Army National Guard, he said, and was discharged in 2012.

He talked about having custody of his two sons, then in middle school, and their mother picking them up in October 2013 because she did not approve of him living with Jones. Pillsbury said he didn’t object at the time because he had been working 80 hours a week as a flagger on one of the natural gas pipeline installation projects in the Augusta area.

On the day of the stabbing, he said he got up at 6 a.m.; went to Waterville with Jones, who was attending Empire Beauty School there; then stayed home rather than go to work because his paycheck had not come in as expected.

Pillsbury told them he spent time on the computer and started drinking later in the day than was usual.

“Over the last month I was drinking a little more excessively than I usually do,” he says. “I was depressed over some things.”

He told detective he was drinking 100 proof vodka that day, and that the altercation about Jones’ phone began after Michael St. Pierre, in whose apartment they were staying, left to pick up a holiday food package from a food bank in Gardiner.

St. Pierre and others testified Tuesday that it was just after 6:30 p.m. that day.

St. Pierre returned about 7:30 p.m. to find Jones dead and Pillsbury trying to stab himself in the neck, St. Pierre had said.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

SKOWHEGAN — A Fairfield woman charged in the death of her infant son in December has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on two charges.

Kayla Stewart, who turned 21 this month, is charged by the grand jury with both murder and manslaughter in connection with the death of the child on or about Dec. 30, according to the indictment handed up Tuesday in county court. Both charges are class A felonies punishable, upon conviction, by a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Prosecutors said at a Feb. 19 bail hearing that Kayla Stewart’s baby was born alive and healthy but died after she either suffocated it or left it to die in her garage and that she allegedly told a state police detective that she “made sure” the baby was dead.

The autopsy report by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said the baby’s height, weight and size were consistent with that of a full-term baby, and the baby’s color and the fact his lungs had drawn air indicated it was born alive. The cause of death was reported to be a homicide from suffocation or smothering, or neglect — being left to die in a cold garage with a lack of care.

The indictment for murder charges that Stewart caused the infant’s death through conduct that “manifested a depraved indifference to the value of human life.” The child’s date of birth listed in the indictment is Dec. 30, the same day as the alleged crimes.

The manslaughter indictment alleges that Stewart acted “recklessly or with criminal negligence” in the death of a child who had not yet reached the age of 6.

While the case is being prosecuted by the Office of the Maine Attorney General, District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said it is not uncommon to bring more than one charge in a homicide case.

“We often charge cases with more than one theory of the case,” Maloney said, depending on the alleged perpetrator’s mental state. “If she were convicted of both counts, they would be consolidated before sentencing. This means she will only be sentenced on one count because both counts involved the same actions.”

Stewart entered no plea Jan. 25 in a video appearance in court from the county jail. She was arrested Jan. 22 at the 457 Norridgewock Road, Fairfield, residence she shared with her boyfriend, Nicholas Blood.

State police found the full-term baby boy Jan. 11, with a placenta still attached, wrapped in a blanket and trash bags under an oil tank and behind a sheet of insulation after Stewart’s mother had called police with her concerns about the baby’s fate two days earlier, according to the affidavit written by Maine State Police Detective Scott Bryant.

Stewart’s attorney, Pamela Ames, told the court that Stewart had a miscarriage and was not responsible for the child’s death.

Assistant Attorney General John Alsop, who is prosecuting the case, called Stewart’s behavior bizarre, and he used it as an argument for not releasing her on bail, along with statements that she frequently has used heroin and opioids. Alsop has not said whether charges against Blood are being considered. The prosecutor was out of town Wednesday and couldn’t be reached for comment.

Stewart was ordered held without bail and remains at the Somerset County Jail in East Madison, awaiting her next court appearance.

Doug Harlow — 612-2367

dharlow@centralmaine.com

Twitter:@Doug_Harlow

AUGUSTA

Tuesday at 8:10 a.m., a complaint about trespassing was made on Mount Vernon Avenue.

8:28 a.m., a traffic accident was reported on Riverside Drive.

9:35 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Washington Street.

10:25 a.m., a theft was reported on Gannett Street.

10:32 a.m., needles were recovered on Crosby Street.

10:35 a.m., traffic complaints were reported on Civic Center Drive.

10:41 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

11 a.m., a complaint about harassment was made on Waldo Street.

11:31 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

11:34 a.m., a complaint about harassment was made on West River Road.

12:08 p.m., parking violations were reported on Middle Street.

12:24 p.m., a complaint of criminal threatening was made on Medical Center Parkway.

12:31 p.m., a complaint about trespassing was made on Mount Vernon Avenue.

12:37 p.m., a vehicle was reported stolen on Drew Street.

1:15 p.m., traffic complaints were reported on Stone Street.

1:28 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Marketplace Drive.

2:34 p.m., a traffic accident was reported at Green and State streets.

2:53 p.m., a well-being or mental health check was performed on Chamberlain Street.

3:02 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on High Ridge Drive.

3:43 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Anthony Avenue.

3:50 p.m., a traffic accident was reported at Riverside Drive and Newland Avenue.

4:12 p.m., a complaint about trespassing was made on Sewall Street.

4:14 p.m., a traffic accident was reported at Route 3 East and Riverside Drive.

4:28 p.m., two 18-year-old Augusta women were issued summonses for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer after a complaint of shoplifting was made on Civic Center Drive.

5:12 p.m., property was recovered on Cony Street.

8:20 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Sewall Street.

8:23 p.m., a suspicious vehicle was reported at North Belfast Avenue and Weeks Mills Road.

8:58 p.m., a theft was reported on Northern Avenue.

9:24 p.m., a well-being check was performed.

9:41 p.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Water Street.

10:04 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

10:44 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Cony Road.

Wednesday at 2:55 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

4:58 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Ridge Road.

6:42 a.m., traffic complaints were reported on Glenridge Drive.

FARMINGDALE

Tuesday at 3:59 p.m., a traffic accident involving a car and a school bus occurred on Maine Avenue.

GARDINER

Tuesday at 8:37 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Clinton Street.

8:44 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Cannard Street.

9:01 a.m., a traffic accident occurred.

2:30 p.m., a complaint of fraud was investigated.

4:10 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Highland Avenue.

7:10 p.m., a complaint of harassment was reported on Highland Avenue.

Wednesday at 6:12 a.m., a traffic accident was reported on Brunswick Avenue.

HALLOWELL

Tuesday at 9:50 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Middle Street.

1:07 p.m., well-being or mental health check was performed on Middle Street.

7:13 p.m., traffic complaints were reported on Water Street.

MANCHESTER

Tuesday at 5:38 p.m., a traffic accident occurred on Worthing Road.

MONMOUTH

Tuesday at 4:10 p.m., a theft was reported on Wilson Pond Road.

6:11 p.m., harassment was reported on Main Street.

WEST GARDINER

Tuesday at 7:06 p.m., a well-being check was performed on High Street.

WINTHROP

Tuesday at 1:17 p.m., a traffic complaint was made on Route 41.

3:21 p.m., a person with mental problems was reported on Pleasant Street.

4:16 p.m., a traffic complaint was made on Metcalf Road.

5:03 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Town Hall Lane.

ARRESTS

AUGUSTA

Tuesday at 1:55 p.m., Heath Dupont, 42, of Augusta, was arrested on a charge of violation of probation.

4:59 p.m., Kristopher Michael Russ, 33, of Augusta, was arrested on charges of robbery, criminal mischief, aggravated assault, burglary, forgery, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, and violation of condition of release.

A 16-year-old Readfield boy has been charged in connection with a March 14 home invasion, Interim Kennebec County Sheriff Ryan Reardon said Wednesday in a news release.

The boy, whose name is being withheld because of his age, was charged with burglary and theft.

Reardon said two deputies responded to a 2 a.m. 911 call from a home on Plains Road in Readfield. The caller reported that a male had broken into his home while he and his family were sleeping. The homeowner said he discovered the boy in his basement.

The boy fled after rummaging through the home and an unlocked vehicle, Reardon said. After an investigation, deputies questioned the boy, who admitted his involvement, according to police. He has been ordered to appear at the Capital Judicial Center.

AUGUSTA — An Augusta man who is accused of attacking a Pike Street homeowner with a cast iron frying pan made his initial appearance in court Wednesday via video from the Kennebec County jail.

Augusta police say no one was home when Kristopher M. Russ, 33, broke into James Young’s home around 2 p.m. Tuesday. When Young returned home and found Russ in his bedroom, Russ struck Young, 79, repeatedly on his head and shoulder with the frying pan before taking Young’s wallet, some blank checks, money and jewelry, and later trying to cash a check he wrote out to himself on Young’s account, police said.

Court papers say a teller at Kennebec Savings Bank recognized the check because Young is a regular customer, but she didn’t recognize the man presenting it. She asked for identification, and the man handed over identification belonging to Russ. Police traced that name to a Page Street address.

Justice Robert Mullen set bail for Russ at $250,000 cash, the amount requested by the state, after outlining the charges and maximum penalties for each. The robbery charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison; the burglary and aggravated assault charges, 10 years each. Mullen said the bail could be reviewed once an attorney is appointed for Russ.

“The state believes that for public safety, we need to have a high cash bail set in this case,” said Tyler LeClair, assistant district attorney.

LeClair said Russ told police he picked up the pan when he was in the kitchen.

“When he had a chance to use it as a weapon, he did,” LeClair told the judge.

Stephen Bourget, lawyer of the day representing Russ, objected to the high bail amount, saying that Russ “obviously is never going to get close to that,” and that it was the equivalent of holding him without bail.

Russ asked the judge to appoint attorney William Avantaggio to his cases, saying Avantaggio was just appointed two months ago to represent him on pending charges of criminal mischief, burglary and violations of conditions of release in Lincoln County.

The judge told Russ to fill out the paperwork for a court-appointed attorney, and the judge also said he would note the request for Avantaggio.

Bail conditions prohibit Russ from contact with the victim and from being on Pike Street in Augusta.

According to the affidavit, Russ knocked on Young’s door, and when no one answered, he walked around to a side door. That door wasn’t locked but an interior door was. Police said Russ removed the Plexiglas window and cut the screen, and then pushed it open with his shoulder.

After the attack on Young, the affidavit said, Russ left the house and headed toward Western Avenue. He hid the frying pan in some bushes near Pizza Hut, then cut across the street and went home.

He was arrested late Tuesday afternoon on charges of robbery, criminal mischief, aggravated assault, burglary, forgery, theft by unlawful taking or transfer and violating conditions of release.

“Kristopher said that he did not intend on hurting anyone but he just flipped out,” the affidavit states. “Kristopher said he was looking for money for his heroin addiction but had no intentions of hurting anyone.”

In addition to the pending charges in Lincoln County and a charge of felony theft in Cumberland County, Russ previously was convicted of burglary in April 2012 in Waldo County and theft in February 2009 in Augusta.

IN CANAAN, Tuesday at 4:27 p.m., burglary was reported on Hinckley Road.

IN CLINTON, Monday at 2:19 p.m., a report of criminal mischief was investigated on Hinckley Road.

6:38 p.m., a report of criminal mischief was investigated on Bush Road.

Tuesday at 12:18 p.m., a theft was reported on Hinckley Road.

1:45 p.m., a drug offense was reported on Mutton Lane.

IN FAIRFIELD, Tuesday at 11:48 a.m., a report of trespassing led to issuance of a warning on Main Street.

1:30 p.m., a scam complaint was investigated at Police Plaza.

2:01 p.m., a report of domestic disturbance was investigated on Gibson Court.

5:45 p.m., a complaint about shots being fired was reported on Skowhegan Road.

7:29 p.m., theft was reported on Main Street.

IN FARMINGTON, Tuesday at 1:04 p.m., a fire involving hazardous materials was reported on Temple Road.

4 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Wilton Road.

IN HARMONY, Tuesday at 8:10 p.m., a vehicle fire was reported on Chadbourne Road.

IN MADISON, Tuesday at 11:58 a.m., a harassment complaint was investigated on East Madison Road.

1:05 p.m., a report of threatening was investigated on Thomas Street.

Wednesday at 1:26 a.m., vandalism was reported on Wedge Street.

IN NEW SHARON, Tuesday at 1:20 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Cape Cod Hill Road.

5:33 p.m., a traffic accident was reported on Mile Hill Road.

IN OAKLAND, Monday at 9:49 a.m., harassment was reported on Fairfield Street.

2:42 p.m., a report of a domestic dispute led to an arrest on Cascade Mill Road.

6:04 p.m., a report of disturbance was investigated at The Cascades on Powell Avenue.

Tuesday at 9:17 a.m., a city ordinance violation was reported on Webb Road.

12:38 p.m., harassment was reported on Belgrade Road.

2:35 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Pleasant Street.

4:39 p.m., harassment was reported on Cascade Mill Road.

11:14 p.m., harassment was reported on Oak Street.

IN PITTSFIELD, Tuesday at 10:09 a.m., trespassing was reported on Phillips Corner Road.

8:41 p.m., a report of disturbance was investigated on Libby Street.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., a report of a vehicle fire was investigated on Middle Road.

11:05 a.m., a harassment complaint was reported on Oak Street.

3:31 p.m., a scam complaint was reported on Beauford Street.

5:28 p.m., an intoxicated person was reported on Madison Avenue.

5:42 p.m., a report of disturbance was investigated on Cedar Street.

7:13 p.m., theft was reported on Poulin Drive.

8:53 p.m., violation of bail was reported on West Front Street.

Wednesday at 6:53 a.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Pennell Street.

IN ST. ALBANS, Wednesday at 6:17 a.m., a harassment complaint was investigated on Todds Corner Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Monday at 7:32 a.m., a report of juvenile offenses was investigated on Green Street.

10:14 a.m., suspicious activity was reported at Thayer Garden Apartments on Quarry Road.

10:56 a.m., a report of assault led to an arrest on Gold Street.

11:55 a.m., a pedestrian check led to an arrest on Spring Street.

1:13 p.m., fraud or forgery was reported on Violette Avenue.

1:23 p.m., suspicious activity was reported at Marden’s Surplus & Salvage on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

1:58 p.m., a report of theft was investigated at Colby College on Mayflower Hill Drive.

2:01 p.m., shoplifting was reported at Wal-Mart on Waterville Commons Drive.

2:10 p.m., fraud or forgery was reported at Temple Academy on West River Road.

2:51 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated in The Concourse.

3:07 p.m., a report of threatening was investigated on Boothby Street.

3:24 p.m., harassment was reported on Pooler’s Park Way.

3:44 p.m., a report of shoplifting led to an arrest at Wal-Mart on Waterville Commons Drive.

3:46 p.m., police were unable to locate the source of a report of theft on Western Court.

4:52 p.m., a report of theft was investigated in Elm Plaza.

5:19 p.m., harassment was reported on Silver Street.

6:13 p.m., a report of an unwanted person was investigated at The Woodlands on West River Road.

6:28 p.m., a report of shoplifting led to an arrest at the Hannaford supermarket in Elm Plaza.

6:36 p.m., a report of theft was investigated on Western Court.

8:28 p.m., a report of shoplifting led to an arrest at the Hannaford supermarket in Elm Plaza.

Tuesday at 12:34 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on High Street.

1:24 a.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated at McDonald’s restaurant on Main Street.

2:17 a.m., a noise complaint was reported on Temple Street.

11:58 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Front Street.

4:57 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported near College and Hazelwood avenues.

IN WINSLOW, Monday at 9:42 a.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Victor Terrace.

12:49 p.m., a welfare check led to an arrest on Benton Avenue.

10:13 p.m., a report of an accident causing injury on Garland Road led to an arrest.

11:21 p.m., a report of suspicious activity was investigated on Danielson Street.

11:58 p.m., a report of a domestic dispute was investigated on Halifax Street.

Tuesday at 10:35 a.m., someone went to the police station to report sex offenses.

12:09 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Baker Street.

2:32 p.m., a theft was reported at Mathieu’s Auto Body on Allen Street.

6:06 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Timber Oaks.

11:42 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on China Road.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Tuesday at 3:40 a.m., Alexander Wrenn, 31, of Wilton, was arrested on a charge of domestic violence assault.

10:42 a.m., Demarrio Long, 26, of Farmington, was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief.

5:46 p.m., Stewart Buck, 54, of Weld, was arrested on a charge of operating after suspension.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Tuesday at 12:42 p.m., Ross C. Liberty, 23, of Fairfield, was arrested on a writ for burglary and two counts of theft.

5:31 p.m., Justin Howard Amos, 23, of Bangor, was arrested on two warrants for failure to appear in court.

IN WATERVILLE, Monday at 12:30 p.m., Sherrie Martins, 37, of Waterville, was arrested on charges of domestic violence aggravated assault and domestic violence criminal threatening, on Gold Street.

7 p.m., Ashley Miller, 25, of Winslow, was arrested on a charge of theft, at Elm Plaza.

8:35 p.m., Joseph Dyer, 30, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant, as well as a charge of refusing to submit to arrest, on Water Street.

Augusta police on Wednesday arrested two men on drug charges after the discovery of more than 2 pounds of marijuana and $420 in cash in a vehicle parked at Wal-Mart.

Rory Kavanagh, 20, of Georgetown, Massachusetts, and Nicholas Caponigro, 24, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, were charged with unlawful trafficking in drugs, according to a news release from the Augusta Police Department. Caponigro also was charged with criminal forfeiture of property. Kavanagh’s bail was set at $1,000 and Caponigro’s was set at $2,000. Both were taken to the Kennebec County jail.

Augusta police went to the area after off-duty Maine State Police Trooper Andrew Hardy saw what he believed to be a hand-to-hand drug transaction around 5:30 p.m. in the Red Robin parking lot, which is a short distance from Wal-Mart. Responding Augusta police Officer Laura Drouin found the vehicle at Wal-Mart, police said.

A Wilton woman and New York man were arrested Wednesday on felony drug charges after an apartment on Village View Street in Wilton was searched as part of an investigation into possible drug activity reported there.

Arder Prinkleton, 45, of Brooklyn, New York, and Crystal Taylor, 42, of Wilton, were arrested about 2 p.m. Wednesday at the scene, according to a news release from Wilton police Chief Heidi Wilcox.

Prinkleton was arrested on an outstanding warrant from York District Court charging failure to appear, and he and Taylor were both charged with unlawful trafficking of a schedule W drug (cocaine), a class B felony. Prinkleton had illegal drugs on his person, according to Wilcox.

The apartment, where Taylor is a tenant, was seized and searched after a search warrant was issued, a result of an investigation by Wilton police and agents from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, who were investigating reports of drug activity. More than 2 ounces of cocaine and $6,000 in cash were found during the investigation, Wilcox said.

“With help from the public and resources including the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, drugs which have a street value of approximately $7,000 have been seized,” Wilcox said.

Both Prinkleton and Taylor are being held in the Franklin County Jail with bail set at $20,000 cash for each. Prinkleton also is held in lieu of $750 bail on the outstanding warrant, Wilcox said. If bail is not posted, both Taylor and Prinkleton will appear before the court Friday.

Wilcox said further arrests are expected.

She said she is “very grateful for the citizens who brought forward complaints to the Wilton police.”

A report of a robbery early Thursday morning on River Road in Anson was unfounded, according to the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office.

The 17-year-old girl who made the report around 1:20 a.m. needed a ride after having been kicked out of the place where she was staying, said Chief Deputy James Ross of the sheriff’s office.

She told police that a man on foot had tried to grab her pocketbook but was unsuccessful, but Ross said the sheriff’s office determined that didn’t happen.

It is unlikely there will be charges in the case, Ross said.

AUGUSTA — A jury on Thursday convicted Justin Pillsbury of murder in the November 2013 stabbing death of his girlfriend.

The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for about 3 1/2 hours before returning the verdict just before 5 p.m. at the Capital Judicial Center, the fourth day of Pillsbury’s trial.

Pillsbury, 41, was charged with murdering his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jillian T. Jones, by stabbing her on Nov. 13, 2013, in an apartment in Augusta.

Justice Michaela Murphy told jurors that they could find Pillsbury guilty of murder or guilty of manslaughter. She also said they could find that he acted in self-defense, and if so, they needed to find him not guilty.

About 3 p.m., the jury returned to the courtroom to hear parts of the taped interview in which Pillsbury talked about Jones was holding a knife in the bathroom. The jury also heard the court reporter read back Pillsbury’s testimony Thursday on that same issue.

In that testimony, Pillsbury painted a picture of Jones as violent when she was drinking hard alcohol.

On the witness stand, Pillsbury said during one fight, Jones bit his eyelid and would have torn it off with her teeth if he had not grabbed her around the neck.

He said she stood on his bed in the apartment above his mother’s home in Benton and “karate-kicked” a window out.

Pillsbury said Jones trashed that same apartment.

Those events occurred in summer 2013, before Pillsbury stabbed Jones to death in an apartment on Crosby Street as the two struggled over her cellphone.

“I didn’t intend to kill the love of my life,” Pillsbury told Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber. “I was intoxicated.”

Pillsbury, who has been in jail since his arrest Nov. 15, 2013, wore a dark suit, a light shirt and a tie while testifying Thursday.

His voice was louder and firmer than it sounded on audio recordings from November 2013 that had been played for jurors a day earlier.

Pillsbury spent almost two hours testifying, saying he stabbed Jones only after she came after him with a knife, cutting him above the eye and on the hand and forearm as he tried to disarm her.

Pillsbury said he didn’t recall everything that occurred as he struggled with Jones, especially when he was interviewed by police about it two days later in a hospital bed where he was recovering from self-inflicted wounds to his neck.

“I didn’t remember the little details; what I remember is I killed her,” Pillsbury said on the witness stand.

“It started out as a joking type of thing,” Pillsbury said, describing his taking her cellphone and her demanding it back from him.

He said it became serious after she stabbed him above the eye, causing him to be unable to see out of it.

Pillsbury’s attorneys have said Pillsbury acted in self-defense when he killed Jones in the bathroom of the apartment.

Pillsbury said he was trying to neutralize the threat and get the knife out of her hands.

In response to a question from Macomber, Pillsbury agreed that he was about a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than Jones. Pillsbury said he is 6-foot-4 and at the time weighed about 200 pounds.

Macomber had Pillsbury come out of the witness box at one point and stand near the other prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Meg Elam, as Macomber used a measuring tape to determine her height.

Defense attorney Stephen Smith objected to that, drawing a sidebar conference with the judge.

Finally Pillsbury testified that Elam was about the height of Jones.

Pillsbury said he had moved to Augusta two weeks earlier from his Benton apartment in order to be closer to his construction work in Augusta. He said he was staying with Michael St. Pierre until he could get his own apartment and that Jones stayed with him during the week. Jones, who had grown up in Bingham, was attending beauty school in Waterville.

In his closing argument, Macomber told jurors they had to decide which version of events to believe.

“What you have here is a tale of two Justins — the version he told to Detective (Christopher) Tremblay and the version he told to you folks on the stand,” he said.

Macomber said a trail of Pillsbury’s blood on a door shows that Pillsbury was trying to get into the bathroom to kill Jones.

“Justin Pillsbury was not acting in self-defense,” Macomber argued. “He didn’t believe that she was going to kill him. He didn’t believe that he had to kill her to defend himself, and he’s the one that provoked the encounter that night. Justin Pillsbury is guilty of murder.”

Macomber said the stories differ in that Pillsbury told detectives he demanded she unlock her phone, but on the stand he testified that his grabbing her phone started as a joke and changed only after she got upset because he would not return it to her.

“If you believe what he told Detective Tremblay two days after the murder, he intended to kill her,” Macomber said. He punctuated his argument by playing short clips of the interview that took place as Pillsbury was in the hospital bed on Nov. 15, 2013, just before his arrest.

Macomber said Pillsbury was jealous and believed Jones was communicating on her cellphone with another man.

In the closing argument for the defense, Smith said the knife fight occurred rapidly when both Pillsbury and Jones were drunk and that Jones came after Pillsbury with a knife in the bathroom.

“Justin didn’t choose to have her come at him with a knife while he was drunk,” Smith argued. “He simply had to do the best he could with the situation at hand, and frankly, the best he could was what he had to do, and that was neutralize that threat.”

Smith said Jones had proved violent on prior occasions, but she wasn’t holding a knife then.

“When she came at him with that knife, the choices became very narrow, very limited,” Smith said.

Smith said grief drove Pillsbury to attempt to kill himself.

Smith illustrated his closing by holding up enlargements of photos of Pillsbury’s injuries after they were treated.

He told jurors to remember that Pillsbury’s blood was throughout the apartment, while Jones’ blood was primarily in the bathroom.

Thursday’s proceedings were watched by about 40 people sitting in the public area of the courtroom.

Jones’ family and friends were in the first two rows behind the prosecutor. Pillsbury’s sister sat on a front bench behind the defendant. Family and friends indicated they did not wish to comment after the verdict.

A number of court personnel and other attorneys heard Pillsbury’s testimony and closing arguments.

On Tuesday, St. Pierre, the man who lived in the apartment where Jones was killed, testified that he came home about 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13, 2013, and found Jones dead in the bathroom and Pillsbury bleeding heavily.

St. Pierre testified — under a grant of immunity from prosecution — that he helped sharpen a knife so Pillsbury could better use it to kill himself.

St. Pierre and others testified they had been drinking vodka and tequila with the couple earlier in the evening but left before the couple’s argument.

On Monday, the state’s former chief medical examiner testified that Jones suffered 12 stab wounds, with the fatal ones piercing major blood vessels in her neck.

Forensic DNA analysts testified that Pillsbury’s blood was found on four knives in the apartment and that a mixture of Pillsbury’s and Jones’ blood was found on one knife.

A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

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