Yordan Chavez-Alvarez, 38, and Yunior Bencomo-Perez, 31, both of Miami, were reported to have used stolen credit card numbers to buy small items and load money onto gift cards at the store.
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Former Hallowell officer gets $60,000 settlement over police chief rape accusation
The police officer who accused Police Chief Eric Nason of sexual assault in June 2013 received the payment from the city of Hallowell under a settlement the city manager calls an ‘amicable resolution.’
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Man sentenced to 39 years in prison for fatal shooting in Portland
Abdirahman Haji-Hassan was convicted of killing Richard Lobor in 2014, after Lobor tried to intercede in an argument.
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$1.1 million from one of Maine’s largest pot busts goes to law enforcement agencies
The money is linked to a $9 milllion marijuana growing operation that was raided in 2009.
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USM report busts myth that juvenile criminal records are sealed at 18
The widespread misconception means records that people think are blocked from view can come back to haunt them later in life.
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Franklin County court for Feb. 27-March 3, 2017
Closed cases from Franklin County Superior Court and Farmington District Court.
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Suspect remains in hospital after he was shot during alleged Sidney home invasion
Eric Hewett, who shot Dreaquan Foster, suffered a head injury but has since been released from Maine Medical Center in Portland. Foster is under 24-hour guard in the intensive care unit of MaineGeneral Medical Center, police said.
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Man and teen arrested after chaotic altercation in Waterboro
The man went to a home to buy drugs but ended up in a confrontation involving weapons, the York County sheriff says.
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Parents of Fairfield woman convicted in baby’s death seek right to visit other child
Kayla Stewart, 21, appeared in court Monday on a writ from the Maine Correctional Center for a petition for grandparents’ rights filed by Lucille and Randall Stewart, her adoptive parents.
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Man gets 4 years in jail for ‘frightening’ domestic violence assault in Albion
Steven Theriault, 28, of Howland, is serving an initial four years behind bars, with four more suspended, in connection with an incident in which he held a box cutter to his girlfriend’s throat and threatened to kill her.