An FBI bulletin included in the 3,000 pages of documents state police released Friday said Robert Card frightened a friend with his erratic behavior just before the mass shooting in Lewiston, but the man later admitted to police that he was lying.
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Livermore Falls man charged with vehicle theft, escape from cruiser
Joshua Souther, 46, of Livermore Falls is being held on $2,000 bail at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.
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Lewiston gunman’s ex-girlfriend doesn’t believe he was trying to target her
Johanna Carr said Robert Card could have easily figured out ahead of time if she was at Schemengees and would have known that she wouldn’t have been at Just-in-Time Recreation, the two places where Card killed 18 people in October.
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Driver gets 3 years in prison for crash that killed 4 Maine Maritime students
Joshua Goncalves-Radding, 21, was sentenced for four counts of manslaughter and other charges in a Hancock County courtroom on Friday.
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State police documents reveal details of suicide note left by Lewiston gunman
The Maine State Police on Friday released more than 3,000 pages of heavily redacted documents from their investigation into the state’s deadliest mass shooting.
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Illegal marijuana grows tied to China are funding fentanyl that’s ‘killing our citizens,’ Somerset County sheriff says
Sheriff Dale Lancaster told the county’s Board of Commissioners that his office has made investigating illegal marijuana growing operations a priority because ‘those profits are used to buy the chemicals to send to the cartel to make fentanyl.’
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Update: Cony teacher dies as result of crash at Augusta intersection
Hunter Davis, 21, was a daily substitute teacher and esports coach at Cony High School.
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Indian Township man accused of sexual assault of child under 12
Nakoma Polches, 42, was arrested Tuesday in Massachusetts, where he is currently being held.
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Massachusetts man found guilty for attempted murder of Vassalboro woman
The verdict comes after Irineu B. Goncalves, 35, threatened, strangled and brutally beat his ex-girlfriend outside a Waterville hotel in 2023. Authorities said he entered a dissociative state and ‘showed no response’ after being tased twice and repeatedly pepper sprayed.
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Maine man arrested in Louisiana and charged with manslaughter in death of toddler
The Office of Chief Medical Examiner ruled that the child, who was found unresponsive in the parking lot of the Thomaston Walmart, died as a result of blunt force trauma.