Ryan Ragsdale’s sport utility vehicle took out a tree and city lamp post on The Concourse in downtown Waterville and then crashed into two vehicles, which caused them to bump two others, according to police.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Man arrested at Chesterville home after 10-hour standoff with police
Authorities said Vance Billings, 41, of Carthage, had been holed up inside the home of another man and was armed with a pellet gun and crossbow.
36 years later, she’s still looking for the truth about her son’s homicide
Micheal Cochran was murdered in February 1981 in Dedham; Leola Cochran believes the investigation was mishandled from the start.
Central Maine Dec. 2 police logs
Augusta and Waterville area police reports for Dec. 2, 2017.
Jay man pleads guilty in road-rage incident
As part of a plea bargain, Jacob Couture had all jail time suspended.
As James Talbot answers to sex charges, man who accused him years ago is in the courtroom
The allegations of Michael Doherty, formerly of Freeport, nearly two decades ago got Talbot fired from Cheverus High School and led more victims to come forward.
Two ex-Saco employees accused of computer crime
The former parks and recreation staff members are charged with criminal invasion of computer privacy, police say.
Somerset County Sheriff’s Office charges two Anson men in drug bust
Darrin Whipple and Christopher Gifford were arrested and charged after a search discovered heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, some in the bureau of a child.
Police arrest three from New York on drug charges in Waterville, Augusta
One woman turned over 115 bags of fentanyl and 63 bags of crack cocaine that she had on her, authorities say.
Dresden man to serve 10 months in federal prison over drug charges
Daniel Pallis pleaded guilty previously to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine base in central Maine.