SKOWHEGAN — A Farmington man was sentenced this week to 20 years in state prison for raping two girls in the past four years, at least once while threatening to use a hammer. Joseph L. Magee, 40, of Lamkin Lane, pleaded guilty to five of 20 counts of gross sexual assault on the girls — […]
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Norway woman sentenced for damaging boyfriend's property
PARIS — A Norway woman was sentenced Thursday morning at Oxford County Superior Court to 92 days in jail for damaging her boyfriend’s vehicles after he asked her to leave his property on Thomas Hill Road in June. Connie Scott, 54, was given credit for time served and released after pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal […]
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Vandalism spree floods Place Ste. Marie basement in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Witnesses said a man broke into a basement utility room at Place Ste. Marie on Wednesday night and ripped out a water heater before fleeing through a broken window. Police captured the suspect, said to have suffered cuts and a possible broken leg, after the vandalism spree was reported at about 9 p.m. One […]
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Inmate awarded $1.1M in sexual assault case against jailer
A federal judge has awarded $1.1 million to a woman who says she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a former Maine State Prison guard. The woman alleged in a lawsuit that the guard, Joshua Dall-Leighton, assaulted her several times in a prison van while taking her from the Southern Maine Re-entry Center in Alfred to […]
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Former Pepper & Spice owner admits to tax evasion
LEWISTON — Prosecutors said the former owner of a local Thai restaurant underreported earnings over a dozen years that amounted to $2.5 million. Junlong Bunleng, 51, of 86 Summit Ave. pleaded guilty Wednesday to nine charges in 8th District Court, including theft by misapplication of sales tax, a Class B felony punishable by up to […]
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Mexico man sentenced for assault on police officers in Franklin County
FARMINGTON — A Mexico man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months of a five-year sentence for assaulting two police officers April 30, 2016 in Wilton. Kirk Hamel, 46, pleaded guilty in December 2017 to two counts of felony assault on an officer and misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and driving to endanger on Dec. 5, […]
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Rumford woman pleads guilty to felony drug trafficking charges
PARIS — A Rumford woman pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Oxford County Superior Court to two counts of felony drug trafficking. Eve Roberts, 48, was arrested in June 2016, along with four other people, on several drug-related charges, including three counts of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs, a single count of conspiracy to commit aggravated […]
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Teacher at Freeport school charged with sexual assault of student
LISBON — Police have charged a teacher at a private religious school in Freeport with gross sexual assault. On Friday, the Lisbon Police Department investigated a report that Derek Michael Boyce, 37, a teacher at Pine Tree Academy in Freeport, a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian school, was having a sexual relationship with a teenage female student […]
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Captain in deadly boat-sinking pleads guilty
A Maine fishing boat captain whose craft capsized in a storm after an evening of drinking and drug use pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he caused the deaths of his two crew members in 2014. Christopher A. Hutchinson, 30, of Cushing agreed to a four-year prison sentence for two counts of seaman’s manslaughter, charges […]
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Lewiston man sentenced to 60 days in prison for criminal conspiracy
PARIS — A Lewiston man was sentenced Tuesday morning at Oxford County Superior Court to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy to commit drug trafficking. Quinton Joseph, 32, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single count of Class B criminal conspiracy, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Joseph had all but […]