Hector Munoz, 52, of New York City, pleaded guilty to charges relating to his role in a 2016 attempted drug robbery in Rangeley.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Sun Journal.
Downtown Lewiston purse snatching reported
LEWISTON — Police are seeking the person who snatched a woman’s purse Wednesday night in the downtown area. Police responded at 6:36 p.m. to a report of a robbery at 100 Pierce St., according to dispatch records. “A male subject grabbed the purse of a 47-year-old female in the area of Discount Smokes on Bartlett […]
Report: Fewer guns found at New England airports
BOSTON — Federal officials on Wednesday said Transportation Security Administration officers across New England stopped 36 handguns at checkpoints in 2019, a decrease from the 45 that were caught in 2018. The 2019 numbers include a Minot woman who was stopped trying to carry a loaded 9 mm handgun through a checkpoint at the Portland […]
Police charge Standish couple with operating meth lab
Authorities say Jeffrey Makela and Nicole Makela were manufacturing the drug on the property where they lived with their 4 children – a 3-week-old baby, a 15-month-old boy and girls 10 and 12.
Man in West Paris property dispute charged with violating bail
Neil Lanteigne, 44, involved in yearslong fight with neighbors.
Auburn man’s murder and sexual assault trial slated for September in Alaska
A Fairbanks judge set dates for Steven H. Downs’ hearing and trial in the 1993 slaying of a 20-year-old Alaska woman.
Judge: State didn’t violate Auburn man’s right to speedy trial in Alaska murder case
A judge in Alaska says the state did not violate the right of a suspect in a Fairbanks murder case to a speedy trial
Homeless man gets life in prison for setting truck afire, killing 2 in Bangor
John De St. Croix was convicted last year of arson and murder.
Former treasurer pleads guilty to stealing from Hallowell’s Gaslight Theater
Travis J. Burnham, as part of a plea agreement, required to pay $5,000 in restitution to Maine’s oldest continuously running community theater.
Two more arrested in connection with Walnut Street shooting
LEWISTON — Lewiston police arrested two more men in connection with a shooting early Saturday morning on Walnut Street. Kevorn Ocarla Haywood, 32, of Lewiston, formerly of Brooklyn, New York, was arrested and charged with violation of conditions of release, a Class E crime. He was under three separate sets of bail conditions stemming from […]