The people responsible for stealing about $1 million from Los Angeles native Sarah Cheiker and abandoning her in a Maine motel are nowhere to be found.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and court news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Bangor home invasions foiled by residents
Two attempts were made less than an hour apart on different residences.
Two Bridges jail administrator pleads not guilty to OUI charge
Mark Westrum was arrested Oct. 8 in Bath after an officer saw him driving without his headlights on, police say.
Second of 3 men sentenced in 2013 Biddeford slaying
Bub Peter Nguany, 29, gets 40 years for intentional murder in the revenge killing of Charles Raybine, who was shot multiple times in the face.
Vandal carves TRUMP into dashboard of car with anti-Trump bumper sticker
Megan Dyke’s car was parked in her Portland driveway when someone also peeled the “#NeverTrump fight hate” sticker from her bumper and slashed her seats.
Colorado man pleads guilty to child porn charge in Maine
Anthony Derrico, 36, sent three child pornography images to a federal agent based in Maine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says.
Driver pleads not guilty in fatal hit-and-run in Windham
Devin Brown, 33, is held on $50,000 bail after pleading not guilty to several charges, including failure to remain at the scene of an accident involving death.
Lewiston robber shot by would-be victim
Police say 27-year-old Abdulahi Abdi pulled a knife on a man on Birch Street and demanded his wallet, but the man shot Abdi in the shoulder.
Thomaston man who accidentally shot girlfriend pleads guilty
Dylan Grubbs, 24, was showing a potential buyer a pistol when it went off, hitting Chelsea Jones, 22, who died three days later.
Former prison guard accused of sex with inmate pleads not guilty
Joshua Dall-Leighton, who was celebrated for donating a kidney to a stranger, pleaded not guilty to five felony sex charges in York County Superior Court.