Trial opened Monday with the prosecutor focusing on Sweeney’s obsessive jealousy and the defense pointing to mental illness and deafness.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Waterboro man to serve 54 months of 13-year sentence for stabbing
Vincent Cole, 27, pleaded guilty to seven charges stemming from four different incidents that included the July 2017 stabbing.
advertisement
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Waterville man wanted in stabbing arrested in Rhode Island
Extradition of Christopher Monroe sought on a charge of aggravated assault in connection with a stabbing in Skowhegan.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Oakland man charged with child sex offenses
Raymond Brickett charged with gross sexual assault against a male juvenile more than a decade ago.
Posted inMaine Crime
Two suspected meth labs found in Maine, one of them after a death on Indian Island
Penobscot Nation Police discovered a lab Saturday when responding to a report of a death on the island near Old Town; the other lab was found Sunday in Bucksport.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Morning Sentinel Jan. 7 police log
Waterville area police reports for Monday, Jan. 7, 2019.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Kennebec Journal Jan. 7 police log
Augusta area police reports for Jan. 7, 2019.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Standoff in South Portland occurred after execution of federal search warrant
The warrant was obtained by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency official says.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Somerset County courts for Sept. 10-14, 2018
Closed cases from Skowhegan District Court and Somerset County Superior Court.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Kennebec County courts Dec. 20, 2018-Jan. 2, 2019
A roundup of cases closed Dec. 20, 2018-Jan. 2, 2019, at courts in Augusta and Waterville.