Ryan Cunningham was sentenced to serve nine months of a three-year prison sentence and three years of probation.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and court news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Mass. man to spend 10 years in prison for sexual abuse
Ross Adams, 52, of Martha’s Vineyard, convicted in June of felony unlawful sexual contact of 7-year-old girl in Maine and Massachusetts.
Police say man stabbed teenage acquaintance at Scarborough soccer game
Police say Nicolas Blanchard, 20, of Scarborough was charged with aggravated assault after he stabbed a 15-year-old student over a $20 debt.
Bronx man pleads guilty to drug charges in federal court
Andre Fields is already serving a sentence in state prison on drug charges.
Former UNE student gets 45 days in jail for domestic violence assault
Nicholas Norton of Medway, Massachusetts, was convicted of the assault and criminal restraint of a fellow student in his dorm room.
Judge: Maine AG erred in subpoena to newspaper for video interview of admitted killer
The attorney general’s office had sought unedited video taken in September of a jailhouse interview with Andrea Balcer, who admits having murdering her parents in 2016 at their Winthrop home.
Former Skowhegan Planning Board member pleads guilty to child porn charges
Christopher Kruse, 50, entered pleas in U.S. District Court in Bangor and faces a minimum of five years in prison.
Former Jay man accused of killing girlfriend enters insanity plea
James Sweeney waives a jury trial and pleads not criminally responsible to a murder charge in the death of Wendy Douglass in July 2017.
New York man arrested in Newport charged with forgery, fraud
Mark Pignatello is involved in a multi-state crime ring that covers Maine and five other Northeastern states, according to the Newport police chief.
Hope man sentenced for stalking woman by putting tracking device on her car
Ian Robertson, 38, will serve 20 days in jail and a one-year probation for following the woman and their child after a four-year relationship ended.