Jermaine Blunt pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center.
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Augusta man back behind bars charged with choking former girlfriend
Judge Tom Nale set Lance K. Wallace’s bail at $25,000.
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Officials seize drugs worth $3,000 in Newport arrests
MDEA and state police charged three people with trafficking heroin and crack cocaine during a traffic stop Saturday on Interstate 95.
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Palmyra man gets 18 months jail for sexual assault on a child
Darren J. Potter must register as a sex offender and verify his whereabouts with law enforcement for 25 years.
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Mistrial declared in Augusta sexual assault case
The defendant, from Hancock County, remains free on bail.
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Harpswell man charged with threatening man with a knife
Nathan Kane, 35, is arrested after the incident in a parking lot at the Topsham Fair Mall on Tuesday afternoon.
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Midcoast teacher who won a $1 million education prize is sentenced for shoplifting
Nancie Atwell, who was honored in 2015 for her work at the school she founded in Edgecomb, said in court that a previously undiagnosed mental illness contributed to her compulsion to shoplift.
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Lewiston police tell mobile needle exchange program to halt distribution
The program, which its founder calls the Church of Safe Injection, is violating a state law that prohibits people from distributing hypodermic needles, police say.
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Bronx, NY, man arrested in NH on Augusta drug charges
George A. Walker is accused of trafficking drugs in central Maine.
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Maine bar prosecutor seeks disbarment for suspended lawyer, former DA candidate
Seth Carey’s defense attorney argues that his client needs treatment for mental illness.