Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Lewiston Police Detective Trevor Campbell photographs a bullet hole in a window at the home of Tom and Jamie Bolduc at 81 Marble St. in Lewiston late Saturday night. According to Jamie Bolduc, after shots were fired at the home of her daughter who lives down the street, three white males chased a black male to her home where more shots were fired. Neither she nor her husband were home at the time. Police were not releasing details because the investigation was ongoing.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
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If all this is happening near an "elementary school" the charges for drug trafficking or drug related issues are more serious...Like I said in my first post...something isn't right here and the public has the RIGHT to know what is going on..."On going investigation?"...Really?...Seems to me there's enough "probable cause" for some arrests to be happening here..but that's just my opinion....wow...
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an elementary school building that has been empty for a year and a half now. I don't think city-owned vacant property qualifies for any of the school rules, despite the building's most recent use.
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The drug bust took place in 2007...I believe the school was operatring then. Drugs were found across the street at 81 Marble St. (Jaime Lever Bolduc's home)! Drugs were found in her daughters bedroom...Very, very disturbing!!!
(Oct.22, 2007)
Jaime was upset to learn that police suspected that drugs were stored at her home. She asked that agents contact Lewiston Police Detective Trevor Campbell, with whom she had developed a rapport. Agents did so. Campbell, who had no prior connection to the investigation and had been off-duty, arrived within 10 minutes of Jaime‟s request. Clifford briefed him, noting that agents were seeking a bag containing crack cocaine believed to have been brought to 81 Marble by the defendant. Campbell then spoke to the Bolducs in their kitchen, assuring them that agents were seeking their cooperation in finding a bag left by the defendant, believed to contain crack, and were not otherwise interested in their home. Tom Bolduc was reluctant to permit agents into his bedroom, but the Bolducs orally agreed to the search. Neither agent inquired whether the Bolducs had seen the defendant that day. As soon as her husband expressed agreement to the search, Jaime looked at Campbell and said, “Follow me.” He did so, and Clifford followed Campbell. Jaime led Campbell into a first-floor bedroom, grabbed a black duffel bag propped up against a wall and said, “Here, look in here.” Campbell took the bag, which was zippered closed but unlocked, placed it on a bed, and opened the front compartment. He reached into it and pulled out a white plastic bag fitting the description given by Fournier. He opened the plastic bag, which contained what appeared to be a quantity of crack cocaine the size of a tennis ball. The plastic bag was not visible from the exterior of the duffel bag, and the cocaine was not visible from the exterior of the plastic bag. Jaime was surprised and visibly upset by the discovery of drugs in her residence. After retrieving the plastic bag, Campbell searched the main compartment of the duffel bag and found, among toiletries and other personal items, an Amtrak train ticket in the name of Rannik Williams Dent. See Gov‟t Exhs. 1, 1a-f, 2-3. Campbell turned the bag over to Clifford.
Clifford asked Jaime whose bedroom they were in. Jaime said that it was a room in which her daughter Meagan occasionally slept, although Meagan did not pay rent. Meagan had just returned from a trip to Florida, and the room was messy, with luggage strewn about.
http://www.med.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Rich/2008/JHR_09262008_2-08cr11_USA...
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any events that took place in 2007 would have been in proximity to an active elementary school. When I responded to angelsxeva, I assumed she was talking about the headline 'ongoing investigation' events of January 2011.
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Thank you for clearing up the issue that the school no longer exists there....by that I mean actively being used as a school...Yes, I was commenting on the "assumption" that the school was being actively used as a school...That's what happens when people assume things...I was wrong...I'm not perfect...by the posts that I was reading I assumed the school was active...I'm not familiar with some of the schools in Lewiston...
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Yesterday I contacted the Law Library in Augusta Maine. Whether the school is operating or not makes no difference if the playground is still being used by neighborhood children. I believe it would be considered a "Safe Zone"
17-A MRSA sec. 23 states: "Safe zone" means an athletic field, park,
playground or recreational facility that is designated as a safe zone by
a municipality pursuant to Title 30-A, section 3253.
§3253. Safe zones designated by municipality
A municipality may designate an area of the municipality that is frequented by minors as a safe zone under Title 17-A, section 1101, subsection 23. A safe zone designated pursuant to this section must be conspicuously marked by the municipality with an informational sign using wording provided by the Commissioner of Public Safety. [2005, c. 415, §5 (NEW).]
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2005, c. 415, §5 (NEW).
I believe that weather the school is operating anymore or not, if this playground is being used by children..it is a "Safe Zone".
http://www.maine.gov/dps/Docs/SafeZoneInformationalSigns.pdf
http://www.legislature.maine.gov/ros/lom/LOM122nd/10Pub401-450/Pub401-45...
This is the information I received....
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This should be of concern to all the neighbors...if this is an area where children frequent, perhaps they need to check into getting a sign.
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yes, the school was open in 2007; however, these people on there are insinuating that Jaime and/or her daughters should have been arrested and charged for the drugs that belonged to someone else...the Defendant in the case that was cited by Madeleine. What people are forgetting here is that the real criminal was arrested, charged, and sentenced.
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I don't believe anyone is insinuating anything. I didn't read anywhere that anyone stated that Jaime or her two daughters should have been arrested. It doesn't mean they shouldn't of either. That doesn't mean that they are innocent victims either. I don't believe that people are forgetting anything...and I believe this is what has you so upset. The criminal as you call him (Rannik Williams Dent) was not the only one that was involved in this drug bust. It wasn't (Rannik Williams Dent) house that was under surveillance for drug dealing. It was the home of Erica Lever.
"Wayne Clifford, a Lewiston, Maine police officer assigned to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency‟s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force in Portland, Maine, began surveillance of a residence at 45 Marble Street (“45 Marble”) ( Erica Lever's home) in Lewiston in response to a tip that the defendant (Rannik Williams Dent) was distributing crack cocaine from that residence. Clifford knew 45 Marble to be the residence of Erica Lever."
"Both Erica and Meagan had had prior encounters with the criminal justice system, and Clifford "previously" had participated in surveillance of 45 Marble in response to reports of drug-trafficking activity there."
"At about 3:10 p.m., Clifford observed two black males, later identified as Kareem Johnson and the defendant (, leave 45 Marble, get into a Chevrolet Blazer, and drive approximately 100 yards down the road to 81 Marble (The Bolduc's home). Clifford observed the defendant exit the vehicle and enter 81 Marble (The Bolduc's home), following which Johnson drove the Blazer back to 45 Marble (Erica's home), parked, and reentered that residence. Clifford lost sight of the defendant (Rannik Williams Dent) momentarily as he was entering 81 Marble (The Bolduc's home) and was unsure how he entered it, whether by knocking, ringing a bell, or simply walking through the door. However, the defendant entered the residence quickly, and Clifford observed no one else at the door." hmmmm....sounds to me as though Mr.Dent felt as though he was part of the family.
"At about 3:15 p.m., Clifford observed Johnson and a male he recognized as Jean Fournier leave 45 Marble (Erica's home) and get into the Blazer. Clifford knew that Fournier had been involved in the sale and distribution of cocaine base and was on probation for the same. He contacted Lewiston police officer Ryan Rawstron and requested him to follow the Blazer and stop it for a traffic infraction if he could do so.
Rawstron and Sergeant Michael Parshall followed the Blazer, clocked it as exceeding the speed limit, and stopped it on Veterans Memorial Bridge between Lewiston and Auburn. Parshall determined that Johnson was driving and that his driver‟s license was under suspension. He placed Johnson under arrest for operating a vehicle after suspension. Rawstron spoke with Fournier, who appeared visibly nervous and admitted that he was concealing drugs in his underwear. Clifford was called to the scene and spoke with Fournier, who told Clifford that he wished to cooperate with law enforcement and had 25 grams of crack in his underwear. Fournier removed a plastic bag containing an off-white chunky substance from his underwear. The substance, which appeared to Clifford to be crack cocaine, field-tested positive for the presence of cocaine.
http://www.med.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Rich/2008/JHR_09262008_2-08cr11_USA...
Cathi, that whole afternoon there were drugs and drug dealers going into and out of the homes of Erica and Jaime. This was going on as children were attending school. (The school was directly across the street) Let's not forget the children that were playing at the school playground either. Although the Bolduc's and Lever's were not arrested, they had a responsibility to their family, neighbors, and the children that attended Pettengill School, etc. Allowing your Adult children to entertain drug dealers in your home is not responsible. Like I said, I do not believe the Bolduc's nor the Lever's were innocent victims when it came to this drug situation.
We will all have to wait and see what comes of this drive by shooting....Hopefully they will find the shooters and get to the bottom of this. Funny thing though...Jaime and Erica's stories do not jive. ( Erica has a whole other version) http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/975403 she posted her version in a comment...It is a completely different story than what Jaime Lever Bolduc told the police in the story above. hmmmm....
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The police department can't not sentence them, they can arrest them as many times as you want, but it is up to the Judicial system in Maine to get them off the streets. You can sit here and blame Lewiston Police Dept. all you want, but they don't have much if any say after they are arrested. Also, I am assuming that the reason Mr. Campbell is brought up is because this is part of the area in which he is asked to patrol.
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I find it humorous that those 3 disagree, question for you people who disagree, when did police officers take on the task of keeping people behind bars? If that was the case the guys that broke the officers leg a couple months back wouldn't have gotten off with JUST community service.
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Seems to me that when Jaime is in trouble or her daughters are in trouble they call police officers that Jaime has a rapport with.
"She asked that agents contact Lewiston Police Detective Trevor Campbell, with whom she had developed a rapport. Agents did so." (October 22, 2007)
* She asked for Detective Campbell, because she had a rapport with him*
http://www.med.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Rich/2008/JHR_09262008_2-08cr11_USA...
I couldn't help but notice that the night of the drive by shooting, low and behold, Lewiston Police Detective Trevor Campbell photographs a bullet hole in a window at the home of Tom and Jamie Bolduc at 81 Marble St.
http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/975300
Another thing who is Samual Jonas Johnson? Is he related to " Kareem Johnson" mentioned during this drug bust?
http://www.med.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Rich/2008/JHR_09262008_2-08cr11_USA...
8th District Court, Lewiston | Matters of record Jan 21, 2011 ... Samuel Jonas Johnson, 23, Lewiston, violating condition of release on Nov. 15, 2010, found guilty, sentenced to seven days. ...
www.sunjournal.com/matters-record/story/971805
Police log | City Nov 16, 2010 ... Samuel Jonas Johnson, 23, of 81 Marble St., violating condition of release, 12:40 a.m. Monday on Sabattus Street. ...
www.sunjournal.com/city/story/942822
Androscoggin County Superior Court | Matters of record Jun 22, 2010 ... Samuel Jonas Johnson, 23, Lewiston, aggravated assault, violating condition of release, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, ...
www.sunjournal.com/matters-record/story/866359
Indictments, Androscoggin County grand jury | Matters of record May 13, 2009 ... Samuel Jonas Johnson, 22, 66 Woodwedge Dr., Winthrop, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, stealing drugs, violation of conditions of ...
www.sunjournal.com/node/559382
Police log | City Jun 11, 2010 ... Samuel Jonas Johnson, 23, of 28 Coburn St. on two warrant, 11:52 p.m. Wednesday at 20 Coburn St. Androscoggin County ...
www.sunjournal.com/city/story/861039
Police log | City Mar 8, 2009 ... Samuel Jonas Johnson, 22, of 38 Woodwedge Dr., Winthrop, on a charge of operating without a license and attaching false plates at 4:38 p.m. ...
www.sunjournal.com/node/652432
I see he lived at Jaime Lever Bolduc's house also...real nice :(
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So are you agreeing that because they have a good rapport with this detective that he should be automatically be investigated? If so I don't think it is terrorist the U.S. should be worried about. Reminds me of good ol' Joseph McCarthy or the witch trials.
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Please show me where I wrote that? I believe that the police are becoming part of the problem. If this was anyone else, do you think that parents would be calling police officers in, because they had a good rapport with one of them. Gee, wake up. Do detectives accomodate other parents the same way when there children are involved in this sort of activity? I do not feel bad for the Bolduc's...I feel bad for the hard workong, taxpaying neighbors. You say, "Reminds me of good ol' Joseph McCarthy or the witch trials."....I say that calling for an end to crime in that neighborhood...and particularly from those two houses is what we pay our police force for. And you can call it what ever you want...the people have had enough!
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My advice to you is to not buy into people's negative comments/attacks that are directed at you after you post something...This will make you the better person by not allowing those to "rent space" in your head...I know how you feel..someone that posts on here gets under my skin and I lashed out at them recently...What I have found to be true is the only one that was miserable was me...You know what you post...and if someone wants to say you said something else..let it slide off your shoulders...
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Isn’t anyone wondering why Lewiston Police dose nothing about this? This family has had so many run in’s with LPD and seem to just get off scotch free. Doesn’t give me any faith in our local law enforcement. Also I find it very convent that Trevor Campbell is always brought up with this family’s drama maybe LPD need’s to take the time and check there own force out.
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Another fact: Maine was one of only a few states not to sign on to Clinton's welfare reforms that would have put time constraints on benefits.
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I am reading what people are posting here and cannot believe it!!!...Why are these people walking free among us?...Something has gone terribly wrong and I feel so bad for the people who have to live near this...and a Day Care involved?...Something just doesn't ring true with me here...I hope the SJ continues to report on this story..so many unanswered questions..and the people, especially those living near there deserve to know the truth...
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If I am correct Pettengill School is directly across the street from 81 Marble Street (Jaime "Lever" Bolduc's home)... the school stretches all the way to 45 Marble Street ( Jaime's daughters home)...This is going on across the street from an elementary school! Incredible!
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"Jaime Bolduc", "owner of Lever's Daycare" Center on Mollison Way in Lewiston, expresses concern at a meeting Thursday about the proposed location of a methadone clinic in the Fairgrounds Industrial Park...
Then I find this was going on in her house...
http://www.med.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Rich/2008/JHR_09262008_2-08cr11_USA...
Then this story of a drive by shooting last night...My grandchild attended that daycare for a little while. She was well taken care of...but, I'm glad she no longer attends this place after finding this out. I am just amazed as to how this did not seem news worthy...Goodness, my daughter asked me if I thought that daycare was a good place and I said yes...After reading all of this today, I would tell her to seek childcare else where. It really is unbelievable...
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The first post piqued my curiosity...a quick "google" told me more than I needed to know. w.o.w.
I hope this family and their neighbors stay safe; it must be frightening living in the midst of that situation.
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It called welcome to maine. We hate to sterreo type but people that come here because the assistance is good are not your hard working americans. They are your gangsters and drug dealing lazy waste of oxygen. If you want these people to clean up there act it is not going to happen. But we can sure can make them feel very unwelcome. Clean up the dirt bags and youll clen up the act.
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It is a myth that people come to maine because of the welfare.
From http://www.mejp.org/PDF/tanf_facts.pdf
Myth: Maine’s TANF benefits are too generous and encourage people to move to Maine
from other states.
Fact: Maine’s maximum monthly TANF benefit is the very lowest in New England. Maine’s
maximum benefit for a family of three is $485/month, which is only 34% of the poverty level
($1431/month). Even when food stamps are added, TANF families reach only 65% of the
poverty level.
Data from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services clearly illustrates that
people are not moving to Maine for our benefits. DHHS compiled data about the relocation
patterns of people receiving assistance from TANF, Food Stamps and MaineCare.
It found:
• Less than 1 percent of all 2006 recipients came to Maine from another state.
• From October 2002 – October 2006, nearly six times as many aid recipients left Maine
each month as the number who moved here.
• Of those who had come from elsewhere, nearly one-third had Social Security numbers
issued in Maine. This suggests that a large number of these individuals were originally
from Maine and were simply coming home.
• Finally, there was no significant difference in migration patterns between aid recipients
and the rest of the population. People receiving assistance generally came to Maine from
the very same states in the same percentages as the rest of the population. If people really
were looking for more generous benefits we'd expect a different pattern - a greater
proportion would be coming from states with lower benefit amounts.
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It never ceases to amaze me how people hear a false rumor and now swear it is truth.
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