Maine sheriff’s deputy accused of sexual abuse placed on leave without pay
A Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy accused of sexually abusing three girls has been placed on indefinite leave without pay. Sheriff Todd Brackett announced the action involving Deputy Kenneth L. Hatch...
View ArticleReport of disorderly conduct leads to drug charges, arrests at Augusta apartment
AUGUSTA — City police arrested six people, five of them on drug charges, after a report of an incident Monday afternoon on Washington Street. Shawn Dallas, 24, of New York City, was arrested on a...
View ArticlePhillips man charged with sexually assaulting woman
A Phillips man was arrested Monday by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, charged with assaulting a woman in Phillips. Duane Pinkham, 59, was arrested at his residence in Phillips and charged...
View ArticleAugusta man jailed for year in West Gardiner burglary, theft
AUGUSTA — A city man will spend the next year serving the unsuspended portion of a five-year jail sentence for burglarizing the West Gardiner garage of a man who had died recently. Paul M. Harrington,...
View ArticleRobert Burton murder trial postponed while he seeks new lawyer
The murder trial of an Abbot man charged with killing his former girlfriend in 2015 and taking police on one of the longest manhunts in state history has been postponed as he seeks a new lawyer to...
View ArticleSkowhegan teen pleads guilty to burglary and theft day after arrest
SKOWHEGAN — A 19-year-old Skowhegan man was sentenced to 10 days in jail Monday after pleading guilty to burglary and theft committed a day earlier. William McCarty Jr. was arrested Sunday after police...
View ArticleClinton man charged with stealing drugs, assaulting, terrorizing girlfriend
CLINTON — A 60-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after his girlfriend told police he was stealing pills from her prescription. Andrew L. Fertig, of Clinton, was charged with stealing drugs, a...
View ArticleFranklin County court for July 5-15, 2016
FARMINGTON — Closed cases for July 5-15, 2016, in Farmington District Court and Franklin County Superior Court. Robert Cooper, 18, of Lewiston, assault April 25, 2016, in Farmington; $300 fine. Peggy...
View ArticleMorning Sentinel Aug. 16 police log
IN ALBION, Monday at 10:20 a.m., a fire was reported on School Street. IN ATHENS, Tuesday at 7:37 a.m., a suspicious person or activity was reported on Harmony Road. IN BENTON, Monday at 11:07 a.m., a...
View ArticleFarmington heroin trafficking investigation nets third arrest
FARMINGTON — A third man has been charged in connection with a heroin trafficking investigation in Farmington. Chris A. Crockett, 56, of Farmington, was arrested Friday on charges of aggravated...
View ArticleAugusta man pleads guilty to burglary, theft of firearms
AUGUSTA — An Augusta man pleaded guilty Tuesday to burglarizing a city home and stealing a firearm from there and stealing a second firearm in West Gardiner within two days last January, selling the...
View ArticleKennebec Journal Aug. 16 police log
AUGUSTA Monday at 7:59 a.m., a disturbance was reported on York and Washington streets. 9:27 a.m., there was a report of a wild animal on Mayflower Road. 10:13 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on...
View ArticleJefferson shooting that ended in death echoes other domestic violence cases...
JEFFERSON — Michelle Creamer sat in a car, parked in the driveway of a friend’s house, talking on the phone Monday night with her former boyfriend of 16 years, Shane Prior. The Cushing pair, who had...
View ArticleWaterville woman arrested twice within hours after allegedly assaulting...
WATERVILLE — A city woman is in jail after she was arrested twice within six hours overnight Tuesday, charged with assaulting her boyfriend in their apartment on Quarry Road, and then violating...
View ArticleSkowhegan man charged in Aug. 8 sexual assault on woman
SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was arrested Tuesday night on felony charges related to an alleged sexual assault on a woman in Skowhegan on Aug. 8. John Jolly, 50, was arrested on a warrant based on a...
View ArticleKennebec Journal Aug. 17 police report
AUGUSTA Tuesday at 7:19 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Washington Street. 8:16 a.m., a stray cat was reported on Riverside Drive. 8:24 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Wilson Street....
View ArticleMorning Sentinel Aug. 17 police log
IN ANSON, Tuesday at 4:49 p.m., auto theft was reported on Pease Hill Road. IN ATHENS, Tuesday at 7:37 a.m., a suspicious person or activity was reported on Harmony Road. IN BELGRADE, Tuesday at 12:49...
View ArticleJudge rejects murderer’s proposal for supervised activities outside Riverview
AUGUSTA — A convicted murderer is not yet ready to be allowed time away from Riverview Psychiatric Center, where he’s been held since completing his murder sentence earlier this year, even with...
View ArticleFormer Riverview patient’s Somerset County hearing postponed again
SKOWHEGAN — A probation revocation hearing was postponed a second time Wednesday for a Cornville man as authorities try to find a place for him to live following his release in June from Riverview...
View ArticleSkowhegan man pleads no contest to setting fire to apartment building
SKOWHEGAN — A Water Street man entered a plea of no contest Wednesday to an arson charge for setting a fire that damaged his apartment house Oct. 26 and sent a firefighter to the hospital. Peter E....
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