The Secret Service and Windham police are investigating a local business and its associates in connection with a counterfeiting scheme that may have produced tens of thousands of dollars in fake bills that were used to buy heroin and cocaine. A Cumberland County judge granted a search warrant in late April to a Windham detective […]
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Woman fatally stabbed on Lewiston sidewalk
UPDATE: Auburn man charged with murder in stabbing death LEWISTON — A local woman died Sunday after being stabbed in front of a laundromat on Sabattus Street, police said. The victim was identified as Kimberly Dobbie, 48, who lived at Hope Haven Gospel Mission on Lincoln Street, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen […]
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Hampden woman died of multiple gunshot wounds, Maine State Police say
An autopsy conducted Saturday in a Hampden murder investigation has concluded that the victim died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds, Maine State Police said Saturday. Philip Clark, 55, of 557 Kennebec Road in Hampden, was charged with murder Friday in the death of the woman who lived in the same building, according to […]
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Man charged with murder in death of woman at Hampden home
HAMPDEN — A man was charged with murder Friday in the death of a woman with whom he shared a home in Hampden. Maine State Police arrested Philip Clark, 55, at his home at 557 Kennebec Road, where the woman’s body was found. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday on the body of the woman […]
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Victim’s family says ‘Rot in hell’ to man headed to prison for killing Augusta man
AUGUSTA — For his role in the fatal beating and drug robbery of Joseph Marceau, of Augusta, a New York man will spend 30 years in prison and four years on probation. Aubrey Armstrong, 29, of Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, was sentenced Friday at the Capital Judicial Center on his convictions for felony murder […]
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Shots fired in downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — Shots were fired in downtown Lewiston on Friday evening, sending police scrambling to Horton Street where spent shells were found in the street. Witnesses said between six and 12 shots rang out at about 6:30 p.m. followed by screams and the sound of rounds striking metal. “There was one shot, a pause and […]
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Dog owner: Jailers wouldn't let her get help for pet left in car
AUBURN — Accused shoplifter Season Bartley said she pleaded with jailers for 12 hours to let her make a phone call to save her dog left in a hot car after she was arrested last weekend. “Before they even put me in the holding cell, I asked the guard, ‘When am I going to get […]
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Third suspect in Lewiston shooting arrested in Massachusetts
LEWISTON — Police said they have arrested a third person in connection with a shooting on Bartlett Street on Saturday, July 7. According to a department Facebook post, Peter Pearson, 30, of Poland was found in Fall River, Massachusetts, and arrested on incidents allegedly committed in Massachusetts on Thursday, July 12. At the time of […]
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Transient accused of trafficking in heroin
FARMINGTON — A transient was charged Thursday with dealing heroin, after he agreed to sell $150 worth of the drug in a police sting operation. A Maine Drug Enforcement agent arrested Scott Edward Towers, 28, on a charge of felony unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. According to the agent’s probable cause affidavit filed in Franklin […]
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Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to invasion of computer privacy
FARMINGTON — A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Friday to accessing a car buyer’s previously deleted nude photos and sending them to himself. Kevin Rennie, 32, of Philadelphia entered the guilty plea to a felony charge of aggravated criminal invasion of computer privacy, with his attorney Peter Kaynor by his side, in Franklin County Superior Court. […]