John reports on police and crime for the Press Herald. He previously covered the cities of Bath and Brunswick for the Times Record and was a staff writer for The Forecaster. A former Waterville Panther, John returned to Maine after studying philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and journalism at Boston University. When he’s not writing about Maine communities, John spends his time practicing yoga, organizing games of Survivor and obsessively following the Red Sox farm system.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2024
Maine wants to keep housing some criminal defendants with mental illness in prison
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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PublishedMarch 15, 2024
Commission: Police should have seized Lewiston shooter’s guns months before tragedy
The 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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PublishedMarch 15, 2024
Attorney general finds police shooting in Rangeley Plantation was justified
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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PublishedMarch 12, 2024
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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PublishedMarch 11, 2024
Bridgton man pleads not guilty to killing partner
Eric Knight pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference murder in the death of Benita Preo at his arraignment Monday afternoon.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2024
A police chase in Fryeburg landed 5 in the hospital. Who’s investigating remains a mystery.
On Jan. 30, authorities in Maine ultimately shot and killed a driver after a high-speed pursuit had been abandoned by New Hampshire police. Why did Fryeburg and Oxford County law enforcement make a different calculation?
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2024
Parents and grandmother charged in the death of Bangor 10-year-old
Joshua Smith, Jem Bean and Mistie Latourette were charged with depraved indifference murder in connection with the death of a boy in Bangor last week.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2024
Army gave Lewiston gunman glowing review 6 months before massacre
Personnel records released Monday show that Robert Card continued to get stellar evaluations from his superiors – even after his family began noticing paranoid behavior.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2024
Attorney general will not release video of South Portland police shooting it says was justified
The agency said South Portland officer Anthony Verville acted reasonably when he shot and killed Christafer Dodge in August, but it will not release body cam video of the confrontation.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2024
N.Y. police video shows fellow reservists’ accounts of Lewiston gunman’s deteriorating mental health
Robert Card’s erratic behavior had already estranged him from his family and had raised concerns among his colleagues in the Army Reserve before he spent 2 weeks in a psychiatric hospital last summer, new footage released by the New York State Police shows.
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