Maine Crime Stories
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at 7:01 PMWilliam Moholland, 56, of Lincoln County was sentenced to serve nine months of a six-year sentence, followed by four years of probation.
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at 4:57 PMJason Servil, 20, of Boston pleaded guilty in January to charges he killed Alice Abbott, 20, and assaulted a man in July 2022.
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Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
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at 1:57 PMAaron Goodwin, a former Portsmouth police officer, insists that the incident was not racially motivated.
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March 16The interim report, which also faults the Army, calls a Sagadahoc County deputy's failure to take Robert Card into custody in mid-September 'an abdication of law enforcement's responsibility.'
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at 10:17 AMCity to consider ordinance banning 'unreasonable solicitation.'
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March 15Augusta- and Waterville-area arrests for March 8-15, 2024.
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March 15A 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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March 14Corey 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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March 14Prosecutors say the defendant was driven by her drug addiction to buy a gun for her drug dealer.
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March 13Paul 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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March 13Prosecutors 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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March 13Benjamin 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.
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March 12Judge Peter Darvin finds that the state didn't meet its burden in order to prosecute 17-year-old Tristan Hamilton 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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March 12Clancy Trenton Scott, 23, was arrested last week after a complaint from the public, according to Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster.
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March 11Police seized evidence from the home, although it was not disclosed what that involved.
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March 11Xavior 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.
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March 11Eric Knight pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference murder in the death of Benita Preo at his arraignment Monday afternoon.
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March 9Eric Knight, also of Bridgton, was arrested Saturday in the slaying of Benita Preo.
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March 8An Army spokesperson on Thursday called the lab findings regarding Robert Card 'concerning' and said they 'underscore the Army’s need to do all it can to protect Soldiers against blast-induced injury.'