RUMFORD – Two young men from Portland were charged Sunday with taking a Portland taxicab on Jan. 19 and using it for a joy ride to Hosmer Field in Rumford. Joseph C. Mailman, 18, and a 17-year-old were each charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
They are to be arraigned March 1 in Rumford District Court. Mailman was subsequently arrested Monday, and charged with failure to give correct name and address. He was released on personal recognizance. Sgt. George Cayer said Wednesday that the two were charged after a witness went to the police station Sunday “and corroborated everything we found at the scene.”
On Jan. 19, police found a 1995 Chevy Lumina taxicab mired in snow, down a slight embankment at Hosmer Field near the tennis courts. “The passenger door had been damaged and, when the suspects had tried to get the vehicle out, they blew the transmission. There were components all over the ground,” Cayer said. He said that, according to the witness, two taxicabs were taken in Portland early the morning on Jan. 19, but one was wrecked there. The Sun Journal was unable to reach the owner of the cab company Wednesday.
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