Dreaquan Foster, 21, was shot in the chest March 12 after he allegedly forced his way into an 84-year-old woman’s home.
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Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Wales man arrested – again – on charge of stealing electricity
State police say tipsters told them that Nicholas Gagne illegally connected power lines to a transformer and ran them to his house.
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Augusta man arrested after heroin found in home
Officers from the Augusta Police Department and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency secured a search warrant after an investigation of several months of drug sales from the home.
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Somerset County court for Feb. 13-17, 2017
Closed cases from Skowhegan District Court and Somerset County Superior Court.
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Alligators in Augusta not your biggest worry, wildlife officials say
While wildlife officials moved quickly Tuesday to confiscate five baby alligators at an Augusta bus depot, smaller invasive species such as green crabs and pike are a more serious threat to Maine’s natural world.
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Man charged with attempted murder in 2015 Old Port shooting will admit to having gun
Moses Okot, who was already on probation in a 2010 murder, was arrested near the site of the stabbing and shooting after a police officer saw him driving fast from the area.
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Madison man charged with sexual assault on 14-year-old girl
Eric Horan, 36, allegedly assaulted the girl in December and then fled the area to escape arrest, police said.
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Bill would create statewide system to track rape testing kits
The sponsor of the bill says having such a system would allow officials to keep track of kits that aren’t tested but are still being stored.
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Hack of state’s job-matching vendor puts Mainers’ personal data at risk
The Maine Department of Labor outsourced its job bank services in July to Kansas-based America’s JobLink, which suffered a data breach.
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Jefferson man sentenced for threatening girlfriend
Matthew Ramsden pleaded guilty to domestic violence criminal threatening.