Sentencing was delayed for both defendants Katherine and Douglas Theriault.
Maine Crime
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Break-in reported at Lewiston House of Pizza
LEWISTON — Someone cut phone lines and entered the Lewiston House of Pizza on Lincoln Street on Friday morning. Restaurant employees discovered the break-in when they arrived for work. Police were called about 9 a.m. and detectives collected evidence. It was not immediately clear what was taken in the burglary. The business was operating later […]
Maine police seize 5 trucks from Rhode Island company that owes $75,000 in turnpike tolls
Commodity Haulers Express of North Kingston faces felony theft-of-services charges for failing to pay tolls racked up over 3 years, say Maine State Police.
Buxton man had meth lab in church’s playroom for children, police charge
Police were called to the Buxton United Methodist Church on Thursday morning to investigate suspicious activity.
Lewiston couple charged after drugs and firearms seized
LEWISTON — Police arrested a local couple at their home Thursday and charged them with dealing methamphetamine. Local police and state drug agents searched the 321 River Road home of Christopher Martel, 38, and Brittany Gurney, 31, late Thursday morning as part of an ongoing investigation targeting methamphetamine distribution in Androscoggin County, according to court […]
Former Cumberland County corrections officer sentenced on drug charges
Davis Glazener will serve 10 1/2 months in prison, and his conviction has prompted the sheriff’s department to change its hiring policy as it pertains to a candidate’s former drug use.
Woman robbed while making night deposit at Waterville bank
A woman making a deposit at Kennebec Savings Bank on Main Street at 7:48 p.m. Thursday reported being grabbed from behind by a white male who took the money bag and ran, according to Waterville Deputy police Chief Bill Bonney.
Punishments ‘got out of hand’ before 10-year-old girl died, prosecutor tells jurors
Sharon Carrillo, who is being tried on a murder charge in the death of Marissa Kennedy, participated in the killing to which her husband, Julio Carrillo, has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said in opening statements.
Yarmouth man charged with manslaughter in crash that killed passenger
Brannon McRae, 29, was driving the car that crashed into a rock ledge on Interstate 295 in Falmouth in June, killing a passenger and injuring her brother.
Lewiston building owner fined for renting to illegal pot grower
PORTLAND — A corporation was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine Thursday in federal court for allowing a tenant to use a Lewiston building to grow marijuana illegally. Matthew Fournier appeared in U.S. District Court as the agent for Willie Mo Entertainment Inc. LLC, which owned a building at 29 Avon St. in Lewiston. According […]