Assistant District Attorney Richard Beauchesne was due to prosecute an 18-year-old from Auburn during a one-day trial Thursday, but wasn’t in the courtroom.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Coast Guard cutter returns to Maine after $90 million cocaine seizure
The Tahoma was deployed to the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
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Whitefield man returned to federal prison for eight years
Peter P. Poland was sentenced for being a felon in possession of firearms — which he stole in a burglary — and for violating supervised release.
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Kennebec Journal Jan. 13 police log
Augusta area police reports for Jan. 13, 2017.
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Somerset County grand jury indictments
The following people were indicted Thursday by a Somerset County grand jury.
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Franklin County courts for Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2016
Closed cases from Franklin County Superior Court and Farmington District Court.
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Norridgewock man facing animal cruelty charges allegedly contacts family victim
Vance Cayford Jr. was indicted Thursday by a Somerset County grand jury on 10 counts of prohibited contact with an earlier victim, and he also faces federal gun charges.
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Rockland woman sentenced for setting fire to her own home
Elizabeth Cole had told a neighbor she would not leave the house, but intended to die in it, after a judge ordered the house sold in Cole’s divorce from her husband.
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Portland mother charged with selling heroin
Her children are taken into state custody after the raid on a Grant Street apartment.
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Waterville’s first ‘angels’ set to join fight against drug addiction
The ‘angels’ are the first volunteers for Operation HOPE, a Waterville Police Department program aimed at getting participating drug addicts the treatment they need.