Morning Sentinel Oct. 25 police log
IN BINGHAM, Wednesday at 12:12 a.m., a report of a domestic disturbance was investigated on Lander Avenue. IN CARTHAGE, Tuesday at 6:43 a.m., a road hazard was reported on Carthage Road. IN...
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AUGUSTA Tuesday at 8:35 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Western Avenue. 8:43 a.m., terrorizing was reported on South Chestnut Street. 9:36 a.m., needles were recovered on Crosby...
View ArticleProsecutors, Sanborn lawyers tangle over statements made by murder victim’s...
Attorneys for the state and for convicted murderer Anthony H. Sanborn Jr. on Wednesday offered different takes on the significance of statements given to police by a close friend of Jessica L. Briggs,...
View ArticleFormer Old Orchard Beach fire chief pleads guilty to setting woods fire
A former Old Orchard Beach fire chief pleaded guilty Wednesday to arson for setting a fire last year that burned 42 acres of wetlands. Ricky Plummer, 61, entered the guilty plea to the Class A felony...
View ArticleRockport man made call to say, ‘I think I have to kill my mom,’ documents say
A Rockport man accused of killing his mother, his grandparents and a home health worker with a baseball bat last month called a former college music professor shortly before the killings and told him,...
View ArticleLaw enforcement officials discuss veterans court, alternative sentencing
AUGUSTA — Kennebec County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney and Kennebec County Sheriff Ken Mason spoke about the Co-Occurring Disorders and Veterans Court and alternatives to incarceration during a...
View ArticleTwo people are shot at a home in Bucksport
Local and state police are investigating an incident in which two people were shot Wednesday night in the Hancock County town of Bucksport. A dispatcher for the Bucksport Police Department said two...
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Winthrop teenager accused of killing parents asked to be called ‘Andrea,’ not...
AUGUSTA — For a while at Long Creek Youth Development Center, the Winthrop teen accused of killing his parents preferred to be called “Andrea” and wanted people to use female pronouns to describe him,...
View ArticleMan charged with shooting 2 others in Bucksport
A Bucksport man was in jail Thursday night, charged with shooting two men during a pre-arranged meeting in the parking lot of an apple orchard in Bucksport. Cory Turcotte, 26, shot and wounded the men...
View ArticleTwo sentenced for drug transactions in Augusta
AUGUSTA — A city man pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawful trafficking in heroin in a case in which a neighbor tipped off police about suspicious activity at the Newland Avenue home. Michael Fry, 47, was...
View ArticleSlain parents would have helped Andrew Balcer through his gender identity...
AUGUSTA — The idea that Andrew Balcer’s parents would not have supported him if he was questioning his own gender identity “is just not true,” according to his older brother, Christopher Balcer....
View ArticleKennebec Journal Oct. 26 police log
AUGUSTA Wednesday at 8:21 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Eight Rod Road. 9:12 a.m., fraud was reported on Sixth Avenue. 9:21 a.m., theft was reported on Western Avenue. 10:36 a.m., a traffic...
View ArticleRichmond woman arraigned on theft, forgery charges
A former Richmond credit union employee pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony theft and forgery charges in Maine District Court in West Bath. Clarissa Hurley, 50, of Richmond, was indicted earlier...
View ArticleConcert promoter expected to change plea on domestic violence charge
Alexander Gray, a promoter of concerts in Bangor and Portland, is expected Friday to change his plea of not guilty on a misdemeanor domestic violence assault charge. Gray was arrested in March after...
View ArticleEllsworth man charged with selling LSD
An Ellsworth man has been arrested and charged with selling LSD locally, including one drug deal that resulted in a teenager being hospitalized with serious injuries. Stephen McCausland, spokesman for...
View ArticleMorning Sentinel Oct. 26 police log
IN BELGRADE, Wednesday at 7:55 p.m., harassment was reported on Barnett Way. IN CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Wednesday at 10:31 p.m., theft was reported on Carrabassett Drive. Thursday at 1:14 p.m., theft was...
View ArticleMan in Mercedes threatened girl whose murder put Anthony Sanborn in prison,...
An unidentified man threatened to kill Jessica Briggs about 36 hours before the 16-year-old girl’s brutally stabbed body was found floating off the Portland waterfront in 1989, a friend of the slain...
View ArticleOxford woman pleads guilty to OUI, hitting bicyclist with vehicle
PARIS — An Oxford woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in Oxford County Superior Court to operating under the influence and assault for hitting a bicyclist in July. Kerstin Thorne, 38, was fined $500 for OUI...
View ArticleThree teens, including brother and sister, charged with gunpoint robbery in...
POLAND — Three teenagers were arrested Thursday evening and charged with robbing a man at gunpoint at his home in Poland earlier in the day, according to a news release from Androscoggin County...
View ArticleMorning Sentinel Oct. 27 police log
IN ANSON, Friday at 12:17 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Ken Taylor Street. IN BINGHAM, Friday at 6:02 a.m., vandalism was reported on Murray Street. IN CANAAN, Thursday at 1:50 p.m., theft...
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