Timothy Danforth, 24, was arrested Thursday and charged with killing Michael Reis, of New Sharon, on June 1 at Danforth’s Weld Road mobile home in Wilton.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Norridgewock man indicted by federal grand jury on weapons charges
Vance Cayford, already in the Somerset County Jail on domestic violence and animal cruelty charges, faces six charges in U.S. District Court for allegedly possessing ammunition and attempting to possess a gun.
Waterville robber to serve one year behind bars
Alison Thomas, 36, pleaded guilty to robbing man at knifepoint while demanding drugs and money.
Franklin County courts for July 18-22, 2016
Closed cases from Franklin County Superior Court and Farmington District Court.
Waterville drug trafficking costs Connecticut man six years in prison
Ronald B. Williams was sentenced Thursday at the Capital Judicial Center after police surveillance and confidential informant drug buys at a multi-unit Waterville apartment building known as The Beehive.
Bail set for five arrested in Augusta apartment on drug charges
Court records show three of those arrested Monday have prior convictions for similar drug offenses.
Skowhegan man pleads no contest to setting fire to apartment building
Peter Gary is scheduled to be sentenced in September to two years in prison in a plea agreement on an arson charge related to a fire last October that sent a firefighter to the hospital.
Former Riverview patient’s Somerset County hearing postponed again
James Mayo, of Cornville, was to appear in court Wednesday on a bail revocation hearing, but it was postponed for a second time and he remains in jail as state officials try to find him a place to live.
Judge rejects murderer’s proposal for supervised activities outside Riverview
Mark Gessner was convicted of the 1994 killing of a Bath florist and later found not criminally responsible for offenses in prison, and a judge found him unready for re-entry into the community.
Morning Sentinel Aug. 17 police log
Waterville area police reports for Aug. 17, 2016.