Court documents indicate the Bucksport man accused of abusing three children, bound a 6-year-old girl and hung her upside down from a hook.
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Police investigate reported sexual assault of Portland strip club employee
The alleged assault happened May 24 at PT’s Showclub, and a woman who says she dances at the club posted about an assault on Facebook.
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Judge keeps Lewiston teen charged with manslaughter at South Portland juvenile facility
The now-18-year-old boy has been charged with manslaughter in the 2018 death of Donald Giusti near Kennedy Park.
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Augusta woman charged with 16 counts of criminal mischief for graffiti around the city
Darbe Anagnost, 35, is accused of defacing 20 locations after a police investigation that took “a couple of weeks.”
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Greene man snared in fed’s pot raid gets new charge
Daniel Poland was charged with lying on a federal gun application form while he was free on bail in connection with 2018 Twin Cities pot raid
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Murder trial begins in case of husband who shot wife in Windham home
Noah Gaston is charged with murder and manslaughter but says he mistakenly shot and killed Alicia Gaston in January 2016.
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Former Jay man found guilty of killing former girlfriend
FARMINGTON — A former Jay man was found guilty Friday of knowingly causing the death of his former girlfriend, Wendy Douglass, by striking her in the head with a bat at least three times on July 11, 2017. James E. “Ted” Sweeney, who is deaf, had pleaded not criminally responsible by reason of insanity in October 2018 […]
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Burglar steals $4,000 from safe after breaking into Augusta arcade
An owner of G-Force Adventures said the culprit could be a current or former employee.
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Former Freeport teacher to serve 8 years in prison for sex assault of student
AUBURN — A former math teacher at a Freeport Christian school was sentenced Wednesday to serve eight years of an 13-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to 10 felony sex charges involving a 15-year-old student. Derek Michael Boyce, 37 of Woolwich apologized to the girl, who read a statement to the court. “You made […]
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Two men arrested after suspected heroin death in Auburn
AUBURN — Authorities on Monday charged two men with drug trafficking after a 29-year-old man on Riverside Drive died from an apparent heroin overdose Sunday morning. An investigation by Auburn detectives and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency led police to search the home of Kevin M. Camp, 41, at 26 Fifth St. in Auburn, where […]