Augusta area police reports for May 13, 2017.
Maine Crime
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This summer, robocallers likely to turn up the heat on Mainers
Automated sales calls, hard to block and usually from scammers, are on the rise and tend to peak during the summer months.
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Skowhegan pair with three children charged with trafficking in heroin, other drugs
Authorities seize drugs Tuesday at Chestnut Street home within 1,000 feet of elementary school.
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Haitian orphanage founder asks courts to reconsider defamation suit against Paul Kendrick
If the appeals court refuses to rehear the case, the next step is the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Rockport woman charged with manslaughter in stabbing death
Victoria Scott was indicted Thursday in the death of Edwin Littlefield in Waldo in February.
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Three arrested in Jay on drug possession, prostitution charges
A man and two women from Oakland, Penobscot and Skowhegan were arrested on multiple charges after a traffic stop Wednesday night, police said.
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Four people charged with dealing crack in Biddeford
MDEA agents made the arrests Thursday at an apartment on Wentworth Street. Undercover agents had allegedly purchased the drug several times from two of the suspects arrested.
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Police charge Thorndike woman with manslaughter in ‘bizarre’ Burnham death
Tara Shibles, 37, of Thorndike, was arrested Thursday for entering the home last month of Joyce Wood, 72, after which Wood was ‘stricken’ and died outside in a vehicle, police said.
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Topless cleaner charged with shoplifting ‘naughty underthings’ in Bangor
A woman who operates a topless cleaning business allegedly stole undergarments from a local store, according to a post on the Bangor Police Department’s Facebook page.
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Sympathy turned to suspicion for friends of Sebago woman accused of faking cancer
Some think the well-liked Hillary McLellan, accused of stealing $10,500 that was donated to assist her, was motivated by the attention she got, not money.