Maine Crime Stories
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Maine law enforcement and legal experts agree that sellers of untraceable firearms should be federally licensed – a topic before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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October 21Prosecutors said Donna D. Desrosiers collected more than $90,000 she wasn't entitled to.
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October 20The residents were home at the time of the fire but made it out uninjured, police said.
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October 22Andrew Fertig, 69, is charged with domestic violence elevated aggravated assault, a Class A offense.
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The Police Department, along with several community partners, announced a multifaceted plan to address gun violence during an Aug. 29 news conference following an uptick in shootings.
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October 18Political signs at the bottom of Dallas Hill were reported vandalized with spray paint.
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October 18No direct threat was made against the schools in RSU/MSAD 54, but the Somerset County Sheriff's Office notified district leadership out of caution while they were searching for Stevens this morning.
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October 18A home in Corinna that housed another suspected illegal growing operation was also ordered by a judge to be taken by federal authorities earlier this month.
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October 18Augusta- and Waterville-area arrests for Oct. 12-18, 2024.
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October 22Thomas Bordeau Sr. is charged with four crimes in connection to the siege.
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October 17Eleven people are under indictment in the case, five have pleaded guilty; in addition, a former assistant district attorney pleaded guilty and sentenced, and a Strong businessman has pleaded guilty for his involvement.
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October 17The recommendations came in an analysis of the Maine State Police's after-action review of the Lewiston mass shooting last year.
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October 17Joshua Brydon, 37, was charged with multiple counts of arson and criminal use of explosives.
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October 17Police say Zach Lowe, 32, allegedly broke through the front window at Phil's Super Variety & Grill early Tuesday and took lottery tickets, cash and cigarettes.
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October 16Iver Cardwell, 43, has a history of domestic violence arrests and has been arrested in Clinton multiple times with violation of condition of release in recent months, police said.
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October 16Richard Hatt, 57, who is accused of killing Stephen Killam, 47, of Fairfield on Tuesday morning, appeared by video Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.
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October 16Notice of intent to file federal lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Defense and a U.S. Army hospital in New York were announced Tuesday afternoon in Lewiston.
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October 16Authorities investigated a shooting on Highwood Street that prompted school officials in Waterville, Oakland and Fairfield to take lockout precautions Tuesday morning. On a video from a nearby porch camera, below, what appears to be gunshots can be heard.
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October 14The calls are believed to have come from the same person and general location, near Mount Desert and Great Cranberry islands.
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October 11Lawyers argue whether Tyler Quirion, charged with murder in the Feb. 19 shooting death of Justin Iraola in Waterville, should be held without bail.