AUBURN — A Maine Department of Public Safety dispatcher has been charged with possessing child pornography. Members of the State Police Computer Crimes Unit arrested Eric Kramarz, 43, at his Auburn apartment Wednesday afternoon. He is charged with possessing sexually explicit material involving children and was taken to the Androscoggin County Jail. Kramarz was released […]
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Auburn man found guilty in federal court of having gun
PORTLAND — An Auburn man was convicted Wednesday in federal court on a gun charge after a domestic violence conviction. Willie Richard Minor, 58, was found guilty of possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence after a two-day trial in U.S. District Court in Portland, according to […]
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Auburn assistant principal convicted on OUI charge
AUBURN — The assistant principal at the city’s middle school was convicted Wednesday of operating under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident. A jury of eight men and four women in Androscoggin County Superior Court returned guilty verdicts on the two misdemeanor charges at the conclusion of the two-day trial […]
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Samantha Turner-Folsom’s death in 2011 the subject of ‘Crime Watch Daily’
LEWISTON — It’s been more than six years since the body of Samantha Turner-Folsom was found inside a closet at an Oxford Street apartment. Police have investigated the 26-year-old’s death for years, and yet the case still haunts many. It haunts her family. It haunts her friends and it haunts the police detectives who searched ardently for […]
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Burglary suspect tries to enter home of burly jail guard
A corrections officer restrained a Standish man who entered his home in what appeared to be drug-induced state of delirium Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Anthony Jones, 35, broke through the door to Sean Wilson’s Limington home around 2:30 p.m., York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. said in a statement. Jones, who was sweating profusely […]
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Maine’s opioid crisis task force urges lawmakers to take action in 2018
AUGUSTA — Maine needs to expand access to treatment and prevention programs and do more to stop powerful opioid drugs from being diverted from legitimate uses. It also must raise awareness among youth of the dangers of opioids and increase the number of drug courts if it hopes to stem the opioid addiction crisis that […]
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Lewiston police investigate Victor News robbery
LEWISTON — A woman robbed a downtown convenience store Monday evening, police said. The woman, dressed in a coat and sweatshirt with the hood snugged tightly around her face, presented a note demanding money to a clerk at Victor News on Park Street, Lt. David St. Pierre said Tuesday. She fled with an undisclosed amount […]
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Sabattus man found dead in parked car
SABATTUS — Police responding to a “well-being check” for a man living out of his car Monday night found Daniel Dennis, 61, deceased in the rear seat of his car parked in front of his family’s home on Depot Street, according to a police statement. The caller who requested the check told police that his […]
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Relatives try to comprehend apparent murder-suicide of couple who ‘adored each other’
A relative of the Manchester man accused of fatally shooting himself and his wife on Saturday said that the married couple “adored each other” and that she was not aware of any domestic abuse taking place in their modest white home at 543 Prescott Road. “This has absolutely nothing to do with a crack in […]
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Lewiston police respond to road rage incident
LEWISTON — Police responded to a road rage incident at 2:47 p.m. Monday when a driver reported someone pointed a gun at him in traffic, according to Lewiston police Lt. Dave St. Pierre. The incident occurred on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, and the driver with the gun was found by Lewiston Police on Montello […]