A state police tactical team member shot Shay McKenna in September after he got out of his van with an AR-15-style rifle and body armor.
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Skowhegan man who crashed through Augusta State Airport gate sentenced
Corey Adams was sentenced to pay more than $18,000 in restitution for damage to airport gate, police cruiser window he damaged at the time of his arrest December 2022 arrest.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Judge links Farmington woman to gun-buying conspiracy
Prosecutors say the defendant was driven by her drug addiction to buy a gun for her drug dealer.
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Waterville man who led police on a multicounty chase in a stolen fuel truck sentenced
Paul N. Hatch III, was sentenced Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta after pleading guilty to charges in connection with drug-fueled multicounty chase in a stolen fuel truck in September 2023.
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Theft charges against former Anson-Madison Water District superintendent dismissed ahead of trial, as prosecutors bring new charge
Prosecutors dropped theft charges against Michael Corson, 54, of Madison, as Corson’s jury trial was set to begin Wednesday morning but also filed a complaint for a new charge of aggravated criminal invasion of computer privacy.
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Waterville man charged by FBI over online threats to kill President Biden, immigrants
Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a warrant charging transmitting a threatening interstate communication and his Spring Street apartment was searched, according to a U.S. District Court official.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
South Portland teen accused in school shooting plot will be tried in juvenile court
Judge Peter Darvin finds that the state didn’t meet its burden in order to prosecute a 17-year-old as an adult on a charge of criminal solicitation for murder for an alleged plot to shoot up South Portland High School.
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Man charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography in Somerset County
Clancy Trenton Scott, 23, was arrested last week after a complaint from the public, according to Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Police investigate ‘large marijuana grow’ in New Sharon
Police seized evidence from the home, although it was not disclosed what that involved.
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Two more Livermore Falls men arrested in connection to Feb. 7 home invasion on Morrison Hill Road in Farmington
Xavior Merchant and Troy Hampton were both arrested over the weekend on two counts of robbery, one count each of kidnapping, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and obstruction of reporting a crime or injury.