John reports on police and crime for the Press Herald. He previously covered the cities of Bath and Brunswick for the Times Record and was a staff writer for The Forecaster. A former Waterville Panther, John returned to Maine after studying philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and journalism at Boston University. When he’s not writing about Maine communities, John spends his time practicing yoga, organizing games of Survivor and obsessively following the Red Sox farm system.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
Lewiston victims, law enforcement see a lot riding on investigators’ full report on mass shooting
The interim findings of the state-appointed panel focused largely on ‘abdication of law enforcement’s duty,’ but preventing future killings will require more than laying blame.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2024
State trooper’s ankle broken, another is bitten during arrest in Limerick
State police charge a man and his girlfriend after two troopers are injured while responding to a domestic violence report on Saturday.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2024
Sagadahoc deputy criticized for failing to arrest Lewiston shooter is running for sheriff
Sgt. Aaron Skolfield, who has faced scrutiny for failing to properly heed warnings about Robert Card’s declining mental health, filed paperwork to run for Sagadahoc County sheriff in February.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2024
Maine wants to keep housing some criminal defendants with mental illness in prison
Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2024
Commission: Police should have seized Lewiston shooter’s guns months before tragedy
The interim report, which also faults the Army, calls a Sagadahoc County deputy’s failure to take Robert Card into custody in mid-September ‘an abdication of law enforcement’s responsibility.”‘
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PublishedMarch 15, 2024
Attorney general finds police shooting in Rangeley Plantation was justified
A state police tactical team member shot Shay McKenna in September after he got out of his van with an AR-15-style rifle and body armor.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2024
Stonehedge, a popular music venue in Gray, burns down
Firefighters arrived in time to save owner Russell Jeffords’ house, but he lost the barn that hosted weddings and concerts, as well as the instruments and sound equipment stored in it.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2024
South Portland teen accused in school shooting plot will be tried in juvenile court
Judge Peter Darvin finds that the state didn’t meet its burden in order to prosecute 17-year-old Tristan Hamilton as an adult on a charge of criminal solicitation for murder for an alleged plot to shoot up South Portland High School.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2024
Bridgton man pleads not guilty to killing partner
Eric Knight pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference murder in the death of Benita Preo at his arraignment Monday afternoon.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2024
A police chase in Fryeburg landed 5 in the hospital. Who’s investigating remains a mystery.
On Jan. 30, authorities in Maine ultimately shot and killed a driver after a high-speed pursuit had been abandoned by New Hampshire police. Why did Fryeburg and Oxford County law enforcement make a different calculation?
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