Charles Allen Barnes, 46, pleads guilty to sending a racially charged death threat via social media in August 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Sun Journal.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Pipe and knife-wielding man charged with robbing Auburn BJ’s Wholesale Club twice
Police say they were able to identify Jeremy Proctor ‘in part due to his unique tattoos.’
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Posted inFranklin, Maine Crime, News, The Franklin Journal
Former Farmington man pleads guilty to robbing Irving store, throwing coffee in cashier’s face
William Moholland, 56, of Lincoln County was sentenced to serve nine months of a six-year sentence, followed by four years of probation.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
State trooper’s ankle broken, another is bitten during arrest in Limerick
State police charge a man and his girlfriend after two troopers are injured while responding to a domestic violence report on Saturday.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Maine wants to keep housing some criminal defendants with mental illness in prison
Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, New England
New Hampshire diner fight leads to charges against former police officer from Maine
Aaron Goodwin, a former Portsmouth police officer, insists that the incident was not racially motivated.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime
Commission: Police should have seized Lewiston shooter’s guns months before tragedy
The interim report, which also faults the Army, calls a Sagadahoc County deputy’s failure to take Robert Card into custody in mid-September ‘an abdication of law enforcement’s responsibility.”‘
Posted inBethel, Maine Crime, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Oxford County arrest log: March 15, 2024
• Nicholes J. Chamberlain, 45, of 6 Brook St., Mexico, on charges of violation of condition of release and unlawful possession of cocaine base (crack,) 4:16 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in Mexico, by Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. • Justin M. Emery-Scott, 22, of 88 Westview Lane, Oxford, on a charge of violation of condition of […]
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Attorney general finds police shooting in Rangeley Plantation was justified
A state police tactical team member shot Shay McKenna in September after he got out of his van with an AR-15-style rifle and body armor.
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Judge links Farmington woman to gun-buying conspiracy
Prosecutors say the defendant was driven by her drug addiction to buy a gun for her drug dealer.