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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PublishedFebruary 22, 2024
N.Y. police video shows fellow reservists’ accounts of Lewiston gunman’s deteriorating mental health
Robert Card’s erratic behavior had already estranged him from his family and had raised concerns among his colleagues in the Army Reserve before he spent 2 weeks in a psychiatric hospital last summer, new footage released by the New York State Police shows.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2024
Missing Parsonsfield teen found safe
The 14 year old had left her home sometime between Feb. 16 and Feb. 17.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2024
Video shows Lewiston gunman’s paranoid behavior months before mass shooting
In a 15-minute video from July released by New York State Police, Robert Card repeatedly tells officers that people are calling him a pedophile everywhere he goes and warns that he’s ‘capable’ of doing something about it.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2024
State police say Lewiston mass shooter left note saying he was trained to hurt people
Maine State Police also testified that Card bought the rifle used in the shooting just days before he was in New York to train with his U.S. Army Reserve unit and ended up hospitalized at a psychiatric facility.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2024
$35,000 worth of drugs, guns seized in Alfred
Investigators found fentanyl, psilocybin mushrooms, cocaine, and other drugs, as well as firearms during several searches of an Alfred home.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2024
Saco police now say they’re looking for 3 suspects involved in shooting
The department continues to hunt for the men who fled the scene of a reported shooting and car crash on Friday.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2024
Prosecutors say defendant in Biddeford shooting tampered with witness from jail
Lorenze Labonte is accused of killing a man in Biddeford last year. He’s been barred from talking to his fiancee, who police say was shot by his sister the day after his arrest.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2024
Police search for at least 4 suspects who fled after Saco shooting and crash
Area schools were locked down in the afternoon, and a shelter-in-place order remained in effect until early Friday night.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2024
Lewiston, Lisbon police face tough questions about mass shooting response
The fourth hearing by the commission investigating the shooting focuses largely on the struggle to quickly organize a unified search for the killer in the face of dozens of false tips and red herrings.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2024
Facing pushback, Maine legislators table police recruitment bill
The Department of Public Safety opposed the measure over concerns about the demands it would place on state police.
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