This year’s Maine Crime Victimization Survey also shows a low rate of crime reporting to police.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and court news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Woman injured when stolen Angry Orchard truck crashes into Limerick barn
Police say they charged the 19-year-old Canton woman with drunken driving and other offenses.
Convicted sex offender charged with breaking in, exposing himself to Bath woman
The 55-year-old man had attended a Brunswick sex-offender support group that has since moved.
Fugitive from Sanford arrested in Cambridge, Mass.
Christopher Gonyer, 40, was taken into custody at a job site where he was installing flooring, police say.
Bangor police identify man killed in shooting at apartment building
Robert Kennedy, 38, of Bangor was fatally shot early Friday in an incident that left a second person wounded.
Somerset County courts Oct. 26-30, 2015
Closed cases in Skowhegan District Court and Somerset County Superior Court.
Police investigate break-in at Maine State Prison store
The store sells wooden handcrafts that are popular as Christmas gifts.
Maine inmate pleads guilty to stabbing fellow prisoner 87 times
Richard Stahursky, who was serving multiple sentences for assaults, pleads guilty to murdering Micah Boland, a convicted sex offender, with a homemade knife.
Loaded handgun and other items stolen from unlocked cars in York
Police warn residents to lock their vehicles after several car burglaries on Harvest Lane Wednesday or Thursday.
Amid heroin crisis, methamphetamine abuse persists in Maine
The state’s law enforcement officials have responded to a record 51 suspected meth labs so far in 2015, compared with 37 last year.