After police charged the student on Wednesday in connection with a message sent on Instagram, officials asked him to leave school on the first day of the school year, and his parents picked him up.
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Kennebec Journal Aug. 28 police log
Augusta area police reports for Aug. 28, 2018.
Oakland man admits sexual assault on 5-year-old
The victim’s mother said Ronald Mullen did ‘a horrible, selfish thing.’
Readfield man gets 8 years for violating probation from ice chopper attack
After serving nearing 10 years in prison, Luke Blair, 28, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday for violating probation.
Police: Augusta man rejects neighbors’ food offer, threatens them with shotgun
Bruce Roy, 48, was arrested Sunday night in Augusta.
Augusta man charged with sexually assaulting 10-year-old girl
The investigation into Robert Matteson began with a DHHS referral.
Ex-treasurer of Litchfield Fair arrested on embezzlement charge
Police say Ryan Beaudette ‘confessed to stealing over $10,000’; donations have enabled to the full fair to take place as usual Sept. 7-9.
Kennebec grand jury indicts numerous people on drug charges
The indictments were handed up Thursday at the Capital Judicial Center.
Sex offender lived in tent inside garage at Albion home of young children, police say
Vincent Robinson, 52, was living in a tent on property where two foster children resided and was arrested on a fugitive from justice warrant, authorities said.
Four charged in Oakland heroin bust
Officers and drug agents seized about $10,000 worth of heroin from a home on East Pond Road.