Crime Coverage
-
at 7:01 PMWilliam Moholland, 56, of Lincoln County was sentenced to serve nine months of a six-year sentence, followed by four years of probation.
-
at 4:51 PMState police charge a man and his girlfriend after two troopers are injured while responding to a domestic violence report on Saturday.
-
at 8:00 AMMaine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
-
March 17Aaron Goodwin, a former Portsmouth police officer, insists that the incident was not racially motivated.
-
March 16The interim report, which also faults the Army, calls a Sagadahoc County deputy's failure to take Robert Card into custody in mid-September 'an abdication of law enforcement's responsibility."'
-
-
March 16A state police tactical team member shot Shay McKenna in September after he got out of his van with an AR-15-style rifle and body armor.
-
March 15
-
March 13Prosecutors say the defendant was driven by her drug addiction to buy a gun for her drug dealer.
-
March 14Paul N. Hatch III, was sentenced Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta after pleading guilty to charges in connection with drug-fueled multicounty chase in a stolen fuel truck in September 2023.
-
March 14Police arrested 25-year-old Ali Abdi Mohamed after investigators used surveillance footage and witness accounts to identify Mohamed as a suspect and track him to an apartment.
-
March 14Police say the owner of the vehicle was approached by a man asking for a ride.
-
March 13Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a warrant charging transmitting a threatening interstate communication and his Spring Street apartment was searched, according to a U.S. District Court official.
-
March 13The scheme involved underreporting the herring catch to deceive state and federal regulators and the Internal Revenue Service.
-
March 12Judge Peter Darvin finds that the state didn't meet its burden in order to prosecute 17-year-old Tristan Hamilton as an adult on a charge of criminal solicitation for murder for an alleged plot to shoot up South Portland High School.
-
March 11Police seized evidence from the home, although it was not disclosed what that involved.
-
March 11Xavior Merchant and Troy Hampton were both arrested over the weekend on two counts of robbery, one count each of kidnapping, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and obstruction of reporting a crime or injury.
-
March 11Eric Knight pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference murder in the death of Benita Preo at his arraignment Monday afternoon.
-
March 10Police arrested the boy Saturday evening after responding to reports of gunfire. No injuries were reported.
-
March 9Eric Knight, also of Bridgton, was arrested Saturday in the slaying of Benita Preo.
-
-
March 8An Army spokesperson on Thursday called the lab findings regarding Robert Card 'concerning' and said they 'underscore the Army’s need to do all it can to protect Soldiers against blast-induced injury.'
-
March 8Authorities allege she had 'sexual relations' with a male student and administrator said she is no longer employed at the school.
-
March 9Police say releasing any information about the incident that prompted a shelter-in-place order and school lockdowns would hamper the investigation.
-
-
March 8Kimberly Sylvester, a registered nurse, denies being involved in any rioting, theft or destruction of property.
-
March 8Spridal Hubiak, 21, indicted by grand jury on charges he killed Angela Bragg, of Waterville, in December of 2023.
-
March 8Robert Card was a longtime reservist for a Saco-based unit. His colleagues became increasingly concerned about his behavior last year but took few steps to follow up on his mental health treatment.
-
March 6Police continue to search for Francis Clark, 33, of West Paris who has an active arrest warrant unrelated to a Tuesday night encounter in which he was carrying an ax while walking down a Paris road.
-
Police siad Jerry E. Veilleux stole a car and hit a pedestrian.
-
Witnesses told police two men were fighting in a Cumberland Farms parking lot in December.
-
March 7Robert Card's family agreed to release the findings of the brain analysis Wednesday.
-
March 6Kenneth Marin, 60, was indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury recently on several charges stretching back more than a decade.
-
March 6Marcel LaGrange, 25, entered an insanity plea last summer after he was charged with shooting Brittney Cockrell and Michael Hayter in front of their children.
-
March 6A person believing that the outside ATM machine at the University Credit Union at 154 High St. was being broken into reported it about 11:30 p.m.
-
March 5Deputies say Scott J. Hafford was overpowered by two men in a second home he had forced his way into with a gun.
-
March 5The new evidence is revealed in a hearing to determine if Tristan Hamilton, 17, should be tried as an adult on a criminal solicitation of murder charge. He is accused of asking another student to help carry out a school shooting in South Portland.
-
March 5Mark Cardilli Jr. shot and killed his sister's boyfriend, Isahak Muse, during a fight at the Cardillis' Portland home. State prosecutors are challenging a decision last year that vacated his conviction and ordered a new trial.