LIVERMORE FALLS — A Portland man was arrested Monday after he tried to elude police and crashed a rented car into a tree on upper Baldwin Street, Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said Tuesday. Sgt. Vernon Stevens arrested Mohamed Adan Abdulrahman, 31, of Portland on a felony charge of eluding an officer and issued a summons […]
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Gray-New Gloucester Middle School evacuated
GRAY — Students returned to Gray-New Gloucester Middle School after a bomb threat Tuesday morning, according to the superintendent. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Maine State Police responded to the school on Libby Hill Road in Gray. School Administrative District 15 Superintendent Craig King said in an email early Tuesday afternoon that all 600 […]
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Man accused of sending himself nude photos from car buyer's phone
FARMINGTON — Police say a Pennsylvania man helped a local car dealership customer link her phone to a new vehicle and then helped himself to nude photos of herself on her phone, which he then sent to himself. On Tuesday, Farmington officer Jacob Richards arrested Kevin Rennie, 32, of Philadelphia on a felony charge of aggravated criminal invasion […]
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Teenage shooter killed after he wounds 2 others at Maryland high school
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — A teenager wounded a girl and a boy inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before an armed school resource officer was able to intervene, and each of them fired one more round as the shooter was fatally wounded, a sheriff said. St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron said the student […]
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Auburn man charged with sexually abusing boy
LEWISTON — An Auburn man is accused of sexually abusing a boy for more than three years starting when the boy was younger than 12. On several occasions, Joseph Poulin, 48, of Riverside Drive, Auburn, touched the boy’s genitals over and under his pants, according to a detective’s affidavit filed in 8th District Court. The […]
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N.H. man charged with assaulting woman at Paris motel
PARIS — A New Hampshire man remained behind bars Monday night on charges he tried to strangle a woman at a South Paris motel last week. Eric Knight, 42, of North Conway appeared in 11th District Court on Friday on charges of felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor domestic violence assault, violating a protection from abuse […]
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Jay woman pays nearly $5,000 in restitution
FARMINGTON — A Jay woman entered into a one-year delayed sentencing agreement Monday in connection to stealing nearly $5,000 from C.N. Brown in Farmington. Lisa Parent, 49, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony theft in December in Franklin County Superior Court. Sentencing was delayed to provide time for Parent to pay the nearly $5,000 […]
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Strong man accused of possessing crack cocaine
STRONG — A local man is accused of possessing crack cocaine when police stopped the automobile he was driving Saturday for a vehicle defect on South Main Street, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. Franklin County Deputy Derrick Doucette arrested Michael Gary Deming, 20, of Strong on a felony charge of unlawful possession of […]
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Farmington man accused of break-in to steal pot
FARMINGTON — A local man is accused of entering a garage on Bailey Hill Road looking for marijuana to steal, police officer Jesse Clement said Thursday. Clement said he arrested Jeremy Doughty, 20, of Farmington on a charge of felony burglary. He was being held Thursday afternoon at the Franklin County jail on $1,000 cash bail. […]
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Police: Man who took Readfield girl to Georgia fatally shot himself
A 14-year-old girl who disappeared in late February from a Readfield foster home has been found safe in Georgia, but police say that a 35-year-old man who took the teenager there killed himself this week and had been facing a criminal charge. That man, Robert Gooden, was from Georgia and had met the girl online, […]