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?
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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Parents and grandmother charged in the death of Bangor 10-year-old
Joshua Smith, Jem Bean and Mistie Latourette were charged with depraved indifference murder in connection with the death of a boy in Bangor last week.
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Standish police chase began after suspect returned to scene of shooting
Police say Aaron Difillipo, 52, targeted someone at a Standish home on Feb. 22, a day before he led police on a high-speed chase from the same residence.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Army gave Lewiston gunman glowing review 6 months before massacre
Personnel records released Monday show that Robert Card continued to get stellar evaluations from his superiors – even after his family began noticing paranoid behavior.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Attorney general will not release video of South Portland police shooting it says was justified
The agency said South Portland officer Anthony Verville acted reasonably when he shot and killed Christafer Dodge in August, but it will not release body cam video of the confrontation.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
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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Missing Parsonsfield teen found safe
The 14 year old had left her home sometime between Feb. 16 and Feb. 17.
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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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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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$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.