AUBURN — A Lewiston father of five American children pleaded guilty to welfare fraud-related charges in an effort to avoid deportation and remain with his family when he gets out of prison. Abdi Hassan, 48, of 69 Lincoln St. was charged in 2013 with 15 counts including felony theft, forgery and negotiating a worthless instrument. […]
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Police charge man in Blake Street beating
LEWISTON — Police charged a Lewiston man Tuesday with striking a man on the head with a pipe Monday night on Blake Street. Omar Omar, 22, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault, according to Lt. David St. Pierre The victim, 39, who was also punched and kicked, was taken to Central Maine Medical […]
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Police still investigating fatal park beating
LEWISTON — Police are sifting through photographs and videos posted on social media, studying street surveillance footage and conducting nearly 100 interviews with witnesses as they continue to investigate the beating death of a local man last month near Kennedy Park. No arrests have been made in the June 12 incident in which Donald Giusti, […]
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Former Jay man pleads not guilty to hitting woman with cane
FARMINGTON — A former Jay man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to hitting his former girlfriend on the head with a cane on New Year’s Eve last year. Ronald Tarckini, 66, of Rumford, who has been in custody since his arrest, entered not guilty pleas in Franklin County Superior Court to a felony charge of aggravated […]
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Lewiston police investigate Blake Street assault
A Lewiston firefighter hoses down blood stains Monday evening on Blake Street near Maple Street after a man was assaulted and taken to a hospital. Police said they had a good description of the suspect and were searching for him late Monday. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) [UPDATE: Police charge man in Blake Street beating]
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Wilton man indicted on cocaine charge
FARMINGTON — A convicted drug dealer from Wilton has been indicted on a charge of dealing crack cocaine from his home on Temple Road in April. Dennis Ayala, 55, was indicted June 28 by a Franklin County grand jury. The charge stems from an investigation by the Franklin County’s Sheriff’s Office into the fatal drug overdose […]
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Farmington man pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting teenage girl
FARMINGTON — A local man accused of sexually assaulting a girl younger than 18 between Feb. 1 and April 1 pleaded not guilty Monday to the Franklin County charges. Joseph Magee, 40, of Farmington was indicted Thursday on two felony counts of gross sexual assault. The teenage girl told police in April that while holding a hammer, […]
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Police investigate broken bus windows in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Police are investigating vandalism to a Regional School Unit 73 bus that was reported Monday morning. Someone threw rocks and broke four side windows over the weekend on a school bus parked at the Bus Garage on Cedar Street, according to Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. The damage was estimated at about […]
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Retired Maine state trooper sent to prison for selling drugs
Jeffrey Linscott, a retired Maine state trooper who pleaded guilty to dealing drugs, will serve a year in prison, a Cumberland County Superior Court justice ruled Monday. Linscott, of Buxton, pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking in cocaine. According to documents and statements in court Monday, he was also selling fentanyl, a much more […]
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Rangeley man sentenced to two years on drug charges
FARMINGTON — A Rangeley man was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for distributing a mixture or substance containing fentanyl in the Rangeley area, according to a U. S. District Court documents. Steven Butler, who was 24 when he was indicted in September 2017, pleaded guilty in January to three felony counts of distributing […]