LEWISTON — Burglars broke into two car dealerships this week, apparently seeking inspections stickers, police said. Workers discovered the missing stickers Tuesday morning at Clavet Import Auto Sales & Service at 1103 Main St. and Dube’s Auto Sales at 960 Main St. Police believe the burglaries likely were committed by the same person or people. […]
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Livermore Falls man arrested on heroin, violation charges
LIVERMORE FALLS — Police said a Livermore Falls man has been charged with felony unlawful trafficking in heroin and two counts of violating conditions of release. Duane Hanson, 28, was arrested Tuesday night after police stopped a car on Park Street, near PallettOne, and conducted a search, which was a condition of his bail. Thirteen […]
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Rumford woman charged with eluding police and criminal speed
AUBURN — A Rumford woman who lead police on a high-speed chase was charged Tuesday with related felony and misdemeanors crimes. An Androscoggin County grand jury handed up an indictment against Heather Grant, 41, of 630 Prospect Ave., charging eluding an officer, a Class C felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. She […]
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New York drug dealer sent to prison for nearly 20 years
PORTLAND — A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 19 years in federal prison on two counts of dealing heroin and crack cocaine in Maine. Carey Ackies, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 230 months in prison, plus eight years […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Who is low enough to steal this woman’s purse?
The gray-haired woman shuffled back and forth between the parking lot and the supermarket doors. She moved with some difficulty, yet she never paused to rest. Back and forth she went, peering into abandoned shopping carts along the way and into the shadows that formed as night deepened. “What am I going to do?” she […]
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Avon Little League field vandalized
AVON — Police are investigating vandalism to the town’s ball field Monday on Avon Valley Road. Bleachers were overturned and broken, garbage thrown around and the storage building was damaged, according to Wilton Police Chief Heidi Wilcox. Wilcox was helping Maine State Police cover Franklin County while deputies and officers attended the funeral […]
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One man released, the other held in Twin Cities welfare fraud case
PORTLAND — Two men from the Twin Cities charged with welfare fraud appeared in federal court Monday seeking release from jail. At an afternoon hearing, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge John Rich III ordered Abdirashid Ahmed, 38, of Lewiston released on $5,000 bond after seizing his passport. Rich said Ahmed would be equipped with an […]
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Former Phillips man pleads guilty to sexually abusing children
FARMINGTON — A former Phillips man pleaded guilty Monday to sexually molesting two girls under age 14. Michael Harriman, 28, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of unlawful sexual contact in separate cases in Franklin County Superior Court. A conviction is punishable by a up to 10 years in prison and $20,000 fine. The state […]
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Franklin County men plead guilty in case of torching bulldozer, damaging excavator
FARMINGTON — Two of three co-defendants pleaded guilty Monday for their parts in torching a bulldozer and damaging an excavator last fall in Sandy River Plantation. Devon Clark, 19, of Rangeley and Alexander Allan, 38, of Dallas Plantation appeared in Franklin County Superior Court. Clark pleaded guilty to a felony charge of aggravated criminal mischief in an […]
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Man who shot woman in Portland still at large
PORTLAND — A 49-year-old woman who was shot Sunday outside an apartment building in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood is expected to recover, but the man who shot her remained at large Sunday night. A neighbor said the woman was shot in the knee. Portland police spokesman Lt. Robert Martin said the woman and her attacker were […]