The lawsuit says police failed to protect a woman from her former boyfriend Anthony Lord, who in 2015 went on a shooting rampage that killed 2 people after she reported that he raped her.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Sun Journal.
Posted inMaine Crime, News, River Valley
Rumford robbery suspect arrested in North Carolina after chase
RUMFORD — A local man accused of stealing a car here Saturday was arrested Monday in North Carolina after a 9-mile police chase that topped 130 mph and ended in a crash. Garrison S.M. Hebert, 23, is being held in the Union County Jail in Monroe, North Carolina, Rumford Police Chief Tony Milligan said Thursday. The […]
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Extradition delayed for suspect in 2016 Portland shooting death
Aristotle Stilley, 22, who is charged with murder in the case, will serve a 240-day sentence in a California jail for drug possession before he is sent back to Maine.
Posted inMaine Crime, News, River Valley
Rumford police arrest felon on parole from North Carolina
Joshua Wayne Merritt of Raleigh, North Carolina, was apprehended Wednesday morning on Route 108 in Peru.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Auburn man charged with Lewiston murder held without bail
Abdikadir A. Nur, 20, is accused of shooting Hassan Hassan, 18, Saturday night.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Police log
Accidents Auburn • A vehicle driven by Darren Plante, 54, of Lewiston struck a legally parked vehicle owned by Tatum O. Brown of Lewiston at 10:16 p.m. Sunday on Washington Street. The 2007 GMC driven by Plante and owned by U-Haul International Inc. and Brown’s 2013 Chevrolet received functional damage. • A vehicle driven by […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Auburn man charged with murder in Saturday’s fatal shooting in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Maine State Police and the Lewiston Police Department charged a 20-year-old Auburn man with murder in the Saturday shooting of an 18-year-old on River Street. Abdikadir A. Nur was arrested by Auburn police about 9 p.m. Monday at his mother’s residence on Aspen Street in Auburn, according to a statement from state police […]
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State’s high court upholds murder conviction of man who killed deputy
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld the convictions and sentences for John D. Williams, who shot and killed Somerset County Deputy Sheriff Cpl. Eugene Cole, and of Kandee Collind, who killed her ex-husband in front of their two children.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Former Unity College employee pleads guilty to taking almost $517,000
Beth Bing, 49, of Waterville faces up to 20 years in prison for unauthorized use of the college’s credit card.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Portable toilet set on fire in Lewiston
Police say gasoline was used in the incident on Landry Road.