William Parent, 67, had been reported missing in June.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine lawmaker pleads not guilty in election interference case
Rep. Nina Milliken, a Democrat from the Hancock County town of Blue Hill, entered her plea in writing in advance of an arraignment that had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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Police locate human remains in Clinton
A heavy police presence was visible Tuesday outside a home and in a field on Main Street.
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Maine’s high court to decide whether to release defendants, dismiss charges due to public defense crisis
Maine has to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who can’t afford their own representation. In hundreds of cases, defendants are still waiting.
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Maine accuses woman of $22K scam over bison collagen supplement
Prosecutors say she forged lab reports and bank records to keep grant funding for her research after it was questioned. She says the state is charging a ‘fictitious person’ and colluding with her former attorneys.
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DOJ abandons attempt to restrict crime survivor programs after lawsuit, Maine AG says
Attorney General Aaron Frey announced last week that Maine was joining a multistate legal challenge to the Trump administration’s effort to bar undocumented immigrants from using the support systems.
Posted inElections, Local & State, Maine Crime, News, Politics
As FBI gets involved, Bellows suggests ‘bad actors’ behind mailing 250 blank ballots to Newburgh woman
The secretary of state defends absentee voting in Maine and discloses that the ballots sent to the Penobscot County woman last week were seemingly intended for Ellsworth.
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Maine State Police trooper ‘body-slammed’ Chelsea woman, according to lawsuit
Marie Searles’ lawsuit accuses state police of a pattern of ‘failing to properly investigate and discipline troopers in cases of excessive force.’
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Former Athens fire chief, school board member seeks new sentence for sex assault
Sean Boyd, who is serving a 20-year sentence, claims his attorney, Drew Ketterer, was ineffective in representing him.
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Madison man to serve 2 years in prison for stabbing landlord
A jury found Daniel Nordin, 60, guilty of aggravated assault after a trial in September.