JAY — Police said a Livermore Falls woman is accused of driving drunk and hitting a utility pole beside Route 133 near Bean’s Corner early Sunday. Lauren S. Lundy, 21, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of operating under the influence, Police Chief Richard Caton IV said Monday. She was driving a Chevrolet Cruze south […]
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Waterville woman accused of sexually assaulting child, held on $250,000 bail
AUGUSTA — A married Waterville couple is facing charges of gross sexual assault in a case where most of the details are impounded from the public but which a judge said involves “very deviant conduct with very young children.” Jennifer L. Stevens, 35, and Michael A. Stevens, 36, were arrested Thursday and scheduled for initial […]
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Livermore Falls man charged in arson case
LIVERMORE FALLS — A local man accused of setting fire to his father’s garage last month turned himself in to authorities Thursday, after being released from a hospital, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a news release. Colton Webster, 26, was booked at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, where he […]
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Argument over white supremacist tattoos leads to Rockland stabbing
ROCKLAND — An argument over white supremacist tattoos led to a stabbing which nearly killed a man, according to police. Mark McCrillis, 35, of Jay, was arrested Thursday and charged with elevated aggravated assault. Rockland Police Officer Addison Cox was credited with saving the victim’s life by applying a tourniquet to the man’s arm. Officers […]
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Two from central Maine charged with heroin, crack trafficking after turnpike stop
Two Maine residents are facing multiple charges after state police found heroin and crack cocaine in their car on the Maine Turnpike. Trooper Jesse Duda stopped a car for a traffic violation just before midnight Wednesday, police said Friday. The trooper found 51 grams of heroin and 31 grams of crack cocaine in the car, […]
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Winslow woman charged with selling heroin to undercover officers
WATERVILLE — A Winslow woman was arrested after allegedly selling heroin to undercover police officers twice in January. According to Chief Joseph Massey, of the Waterville police, Kelli Anne Johnson, 33, was arrested around 8 p.m. Wednesday on China Road in Winslow and charged with aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs […]
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Maine man charged after allegedly throwing cinder block through windshield of mother’s car
A 20-year-old Detroit man who already was wanted by police in connection with a domestic violence incident in January in Madison was arrested this week after he allegedly threw a cinder block through the windshield of his mother’s car and assaulted his teenage brother. Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said William Smith was out on […]
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Former Wilton man to be retried on murder charge
FARMINGTON — A former Wilton man accused of fatally shooting a New Sharon man June 1, 2016, in Wilton will be retried on a murder charge in April at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta. Justice William Stokes declared a mistrial Oct. 2, 2017, after a Franklin County jury was unable to reach a unanimous […]
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Lisbon man to serve 2 years for crack, heroin
AUBURN — A Lisbon man who tried to smuggle heroin into jail was sentenced Tuesday to serve two years in prison on related charges. Damien M. Brown, 40, of 333 Lisbon St. pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felonies: unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, each punishable by up to 10 […]
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Phillips man to serve another four years
FARMINGTON — A Phillips man has been ordered to serve the four remaining years of a suspended eight-year sentence related to a burglary and theft of firearms when he lived in Lisbon in 2010. Michael R. Harriman, 27, admitted Monday in Franklin County Superior Court to violating his probation Sept. 1, 2017. Harriman had been […]