Closed cases from Skowhegan District Court and Somerset County Superior Court.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Morning Sentinel May 27 police log
Waterville area police reports for Monday, May 27, 2019.
Skowhegan man remains ‘stable’ with multiple stab wounds to chest
Skowhegan police Chief David Bucknam said a 17-year-old was charged Sunday with elevated aggravated assault in the stabbing, which occurred at the 29-year-old victim’s home on Pine Street.
Kennebec Journal May 27 police log
Augusta area police reports for Monday, May 27, 2019.
22 alleged drug traffickers indicted in Augusta
Numerous people, both local and out-of-state residents, were indicted on drug trafficking charges by a Kennebec County grand jury.
Driver issued summons after striking parked South Portland cruiser, police say
The police car was struck while it was stopped on I-295 and its officer was assisting Maine State Police with another crash Saturday night.
Saco man arrested in Old Port assault
Matthew Calvert, 22, is charged with aggravated assault, police say.
Defrocked priest, 76, sentenced to spend 16 years in prison for sexually abusing boy in Maine
A jury convicted Ronald Paquin last year on 11 of 24 counts of gross sexual misconduct stemming from incidents in the 1980s.
Jury rules Augusta officer did not use excessive force in 2015 shooting of man who held knife
Augusta police Officer Laura Drouin, who shot and injured then-Riverview patient Jason Begin in a 2015 confrontation, was cleared Friday in a federal civil lawsuit.
Bar Harbor man found guilty of raping and murdering former classmate
Jalique Keene, 22, testified in his own defense Friday and acknowledged that a security camera showed him carrying the lifeless body of 19-year-old Mikaela Conley in the early morning of June 1, 2018.