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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PublishedOctober 16, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: ‘Something weird in a tree:’ A mystery that ended too soon
Street Talk: The real mystery here wasn’t what was contained in that strange, plump bundle. The real mystery to me is how it got up there in the first place.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2024
Androscoggin County arrests: Oct. 4-10, 2024
Lewiston • Shane Wilder, 28, of 137 Prospect Ave., on a warrant, at 7:44 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, at 827 Lisbon St. • Eugene Poland, 47, of 247 Bates St., on charges of domestic assault and violating conditions of release, at 10:46 p.m. Thursday, Oct 3, in Paradis Park. • Margaret Brunsen, 46, of Canton, […]
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Lewiston man charged with dealing methamphetamine; 2 others charged in separate drug case
Muktar Abshir Aden, 25, of 210 Blake St., was arrested at his home and charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Several others were escorted out of Aden’s apartment in handcuffs, although there was no information on them.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Sabattus man charged in Wales assault
One of the victims, police said, was later transferred to Maine Medical Center in Portland due to the extent of his injuries.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Lewiston man charged with sex trafficking
Investigators say 57-year-old Frederick Jackson subjected a woman to dangerous situations, including one instance where she was jumped by a man on Pierce Street while the woman was two months pregnant.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Nostradamus predicts weird stuff in my backyard
Talk of the Town: Everyone’s a critic. Especially that opossum with the long face.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2024
Naked man plucked from river in Lewiston
When police and rescue crews first approached the man, he refused to come out of the river, police said. Rescuers lowered a boat into the water and the man was physically pulled from the river.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2024
Auburn community rallies around 67-year-old homeless woman
Street Talk: She doesn’t drink, she doesn’t do drugs, she’s friendly with police. That’s made this 67-year-old woman a target for the other homeless in and around Auburn’s Bonney Park.
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PublishedOctober 6, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Too slow to catch bears and too poor to afford peanuts
Talk of the town: There are vicious, limb-ripping bears and then there are the blessed creatures that look and smell just like bears but get you out of covering political candidates.
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PublishedOctober 6, 2024
Pilgrimage to Holy Land ends in ‘amazing’ hand-carved Nativity and altar at Lewiston’s basilica
In April of 2023, a group of three-dozen worshipers from the Prince of Peace Parish traveled to the Middle East to visit various sites in the Holy Land. What they came back with is truly epic.
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