Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Lewiston police arrest 8 suspects in drug raid
Police and task force agents went to 149 College St. on Tuesday afternoon where they found 17 people inside the single-family home.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Androscoggin County arrest logs: Dec. 8-14, 2023
Lewiston • Adam Easter, 47, 2 Granite St., on charges of domestic violence aggravated assault, domestic violence criminal threatening and violating conditions of release and on a probation hold, at 11 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, at that address. • Kenneth Bissonnette, 58, of 403 Marston Road, Gardiner, on a charge of domestic violence aggravated assault, […]
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PublishedDecember 12, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Punk Icee, mysterious street wanderer, dies at 64
Street Talk: Punk lived a lifestyle that would seem almost Sisyphean to the rest of us: walk the streets from dawn until dusk, find enough empty bottles and cans to get by another day, and then when that day is done, get up and do it all over again.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Have you had enough of winter yet?
Talk of the town: I’m dreaming of a Fort Lauderdale Christmas, just like the ones I used to … ah fuhgeddaboudit.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2023
Robert V. Connors Elementary principal responds to sex assault allegations
Donald Ferrara’s attorney, Walter McKee, firmly denied all allegations and said his client plans to appeal the protection order. He also noted that the woman who filed the order has made unfounded claims about Ferrara dating back more than 10 years.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2023
Two arrested after traffic stop in Auburn
Police said 40-year-old Jovan Calhoun, the driver of the car that was stopped, is a habitual offender who was free on a half dozen bail contracts following a slew of earlier charges for drug and driving offenses.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2023
Connors Elementary School principal in Lewiston served with protection from abuse order
After a hearing in District Court in Wiscasset on Monday, Donald Ferrara Jr. was served with the protection order prohibiting him from having any contact with the woman who filed for the order.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2023
Two pedestrians hurt in separate collisions in Auburn on Friday morning
Two morning crashes occurred first on Court Street, and less than two hours later, on Hampshire Street.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2023
Androscoggin County arrest logs: Dec. 1-7, 2023
Lewiston • Dylan Soucy, age not listed, on a charge of aggravated drug trafficking, at 4:25 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, at Webster Street and Alfred Plourde Parkway. • David Wilson, 22, of 6 Thorne Ave., on charges of unlawful drug trafficking, at 9:55 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, at that address. • Nicholas Ayer, 35, of […]
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PublishedDecember 5, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: If I ask your age, an editor is making me do it
Street Talk: The man in question is doing math in his head. He’s calculating the pros and cons of giving out his real age and trying to deduce how this might trip him up down the road.
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