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Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Man robs Shaw’s supermarket in Portland wearing face mask
He robbed a cashier at the Shaw’a Supermarket on Auburn Street, but never displayed a weapon, police say.
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Hiram man shot dead in confrontation with Maine State Police
Reed Rickabaugh, 59, was fatally wounded by two state troopers following a 12-hour standoff that ended late Saturday morning, the state police chief says.
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Woman shot in Lewiston; suspects in custody
Police say someone fired a bullet into an apartment through a window late Friday, striking a woman in the back.
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Portland man leads New Jersey police on high-speed chase
The pursuit happened after Paul Grandmaison was accused of head-butting his girlfriend, also of Portland. He remained at large Thursday night.
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State police say Lebanon man threatened 3 people with large hunting knife
Maine State Police arrested Andrew Bleyl of Lebanon and charged him with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.
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Maine high court upholds sex crime convictions of defrocked priest
The justices affirm 10 of the 11 convictions against Ronald Paquin, 77, a former Catholic priest from Massachusetts, leaving his 16-year prison sentence unchanged.
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Woman pleads guilty to murder of 83-year-old in Owls Head
Sarah Richards, 38, of South Thomaston admits that she beat and strangled Helen Carver in February 2019.
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Two arrested after drive-by shooting in Jay
Police charged a Bangor woman and a Connecticut man after witnesses said they saw them drive away toward Livermore Falls in a white SUV after the shooting on Otis Street in Jay.
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Police don’t have a motive for Thursday’s drive-by shooting in Jay
Police charged a Bangor woman and a Connecticut man after witnesses said they saw them drive away toward Livermore Falls in a white SUV after the shooting on Otis Street in Jay.