People housed in the jail in Portland say suicide attempts are up and their mental health is deteriorating during what is effectively solitary confinement.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Sun Journal.
Posted inMaine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
Buckfield shooting suspect released from jail
Travis Lowell posted $500 bail and is due in court Dec. 16.
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser, Maine Crime, News
Livermore Falls man, Brunswick woman arrested on drug and escape charges in Livermore Falls
Police found crack cocaine and methamphetamine at a Bemis Street apartment.
Posted inMaine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
Buckfield shooting suspect to appear in court Friday
James Kimball, 25, of Buckfield was shot in the abdomen at a home on Turner Street.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Max Linn, Senate ex-candidate, accused of pointing gun at man in cryptocurrency dispute
Linn is accused of threatening a campaign staffer in a dispute over cryptocurrency and unproven COVID-19 drugs.
Posted inMaine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
Jurors watch video of crime scene in slaying of Paris couple
Mark Penley is being tried for murder in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and the father of her two daughters.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Augusta man accused of dumping cup of bedbugs at City Hall 4 years ago will soon face a jury trial
Charles Manning, who in 2017 reportedly dumped a cup containing about 100 bedbugs at Augusta City Center, has declined a plea deal and will go to court later this month on charges of assault and obstructing governmental administration connected to that incident.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Lewiston man gets more than three years in stabbing and threatening cases
Prosecutors said Stephen C. Gurney assaulted a man in one case and threatened a man with a gun in another.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Brother, sister indicted in assault on Livermore Falls couple
The couple had once housed Joshua and Lindsey Pollis.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Maine triple homicide trial is moved to avoid jury bias
Thomas Bonfanti will be tried in Waldo County rather than Washington County to avoid any potential of bias on the part of jurors.