The wife of 2009 U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover made the first call to 911 and claimed she was attacked by her mother-in-law, according to a tape of the call released Wednesday that provided another bizarre twist in the wife’s arrest on a domestic violence charge. Glover answered when the St. John’s Sheriff’s Office in […]
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Massachusetts men charged with drug trafficking in Rumford
RUMFORD — Two Massachusetts men were taken into custody Tuesday and charged with drug trafficking, according to Police Chief Stacy Carter. Police identified the suspects as Joshua Deburgo, 25, of Taunton, Massachusetts, and Hasan Taft, 21, of Boston. Carter said officers seized 24.6 grams of cocaine and cash totaling $1,527. Police arrested Deburgo and Taft following […]
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Posted inFranklin, sj-web
Judge orders former Farmington man to forfeit 19 guns seized in heroin investigation
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County justice Tuesday ordered 19 guns seized in 2016 during a heroin trafficking investigation at a Farmington home to be turned over to the state. Mark Barrett, 61, formerly of Farmington, is serving three years of an eight-year sentence with the Department of Corrections. He testified at a criminal forfeiture hearing […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, sj-web
Lisbon man captured on fire escape after suspected car theft
BOOTHBAY HARBOR (AP) — Police say several Maine town residents helped them capture a suspect considered armed and dangerous. Boothbay Harbor police officials say they learned Saturday afternoon that Jedidiah Watson, 38, of Libson allegedly stole a vehicle from the Biddeford area and had fled to Boothbay Harbor. Watson had three warrants for his arrest. […]
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Security video shows vandals slashing RSU 16 bus tires
[UPDATE: Reward offered in school bus vandalism] POLAND — Vandals slashed tires on all 22 school buses and a pickup truck at the Regional School Unit 16 administrative office early Wednesday, police said. Classes were canceled as police investigated the vandalism at the intersection of Aggregate Road and Route 26. The damage was estimated at […]
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Police say 17 guns, 45,000 ammo rounds stolen from Maine home
MILBRIDGE (AP) — Officials in a Maine town say a man who had 17 guns and 45,000 rounds of ammunition stolen in a burglary is offering a reward for their return. Milbridge Police Chief Lewis Pinkham says the burglary occurred sometime between when the man left for the winter in November and last month, when […]
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Felon shoots a video and a gun at Gray firing range, goes to prison
PORTLAND — A convicted felon from Boston was sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison for using a firearm at a shooting range in Gray. Dane Mitchell, 26, was prohibited from having a gun because he was convicted of felony crimes in Massachusetts in 2016. U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby sentenced […]
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Handcuffed man slipped through tiny opening to steal Dexter police car
Dexter police say the suspect who stole a police cruiser after he was taken into custody Friday squeezed through a small opening in a partition in the vehicle to get from the back seat into the driver’s seat. According to a statement by the department and an officer there, Tyler Tibbetts, 22, was placed in […]
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Farmington man rolls car, charged with OUI
FARMINGTON — A local man was charged with drunken driving after the vehicle he was driving on Whittier Road went into a ditch and rolled over early Thursday. Everard Cooper, 29, of Farmington was unable to get out of the vehicle by himself because it was against a street sign, Bonnie Pomeroy, a secretary for […]
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Gronkowski burglary suspect waives extradition, will face charges in Massachusetts
FARMINGTON — A Massachusetts man waived extradition Friday to clear the way for law enforcement from there to return him to face charges in the burglary of New England Patriot’s player Rob Gronkowski’s home. Maine officials declined to prosecute Shayne Denn, 26, formerly of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, now listed as a transient in court documents. He […]