FARMINGTON — A Wilton woman told a state fire investigator that she set trash on fire on a bed at her boyfriend’s house at 732 Industry Road on Aug. 6, according to an affidavit filed with a court. Angie E. Clark, 38, and her boyfriend, Robert Nadeau, 47, of Farmington had an argument before he left […]
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Wilton woman arrested in Farmington fire
FARMINGTON — A Wilton woman was arrested Friday for allegedly setting fire to an Industry Road home earlier this month after a fight with her boyfriend, according to the state Fire Marshal’s Office. Angie Clark, 38, was arrested on charges of arson and aggravated criminal mischief, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of […]
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Railroad ties ablaze in Lewiston
LEWISTON – Police and fire crews went to an area beneath the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge early Friday after a stack of railroad ties was reported up in flames. A truck driver heading across the bridge at about 1:15 a.m. reported the fire. The first police officer to arrive reported “a very large fire” directly beneath […]
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Wilton man accepts plea deal in arson incident
LEWISTON — Two arson charges against a Wilton man were dismissed this week after he pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated criminal mischief. Colton Webster, 26, was charged in February with setting fire Jan. 19 to his father’s garage on Fayette Road in Livermore Falls. Under the plea deal reached in Lewiston District Court, […]
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Massachusetts man sentenced to four years for burning bulldozer in Franklin County
FARMINGTON — A Massachusetts man was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for starting a fire that destroyed a bulldozer in November 2017 while it was parked in Sandy River Plantation. Michael Mark Stanley, 23, of Gardner, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to a felony count of arson prior to sentencing. A […]
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Police: South Portland man set fire to kitchen to get roommate to move
SOUTH PORTLAND — A Ferry Village man was jailed on an arson charge Sunday night after roommate troubles flared into a potentially life-threatening incident. James R. Griffin, 52, of 24 Edmund S. Muskie Street, was arrested after police and firefighters were called to investigate a report of a kitchen fire at his home around 8:20 […]
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Waterville woman accused of setting boyfriend’s clothes, belongings on fire
WATERVILLE — Police arrested a local woman Sunday night after responding to a fire call on Summer Street where a woman was allegedly burning her boyfriend’s possessions in the street. Waterville Police Chief Joe Massey said police were called to Summer Street around 8 p.m. Sunday night because of a fire in the street. Upon […]
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The arson suspects — where are they now?
Brian Morin, 30, charged with three counts of arson Brian Morin, now 34, was charged with three counts of arson in a fire that destroyed two vacant apartment buildings on Bartlett Street and damaged an occupied building on Horton Street on May 6, 2013. He pleaded guilty in 2014 to the three felony charges and […]
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Former Stow woman charged with torching her house
PARIS — The State Fire Marshal’s Office charged a Fryeburg woman Thursday with setting fire to her house in Stow on March 11, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland. Sara Neddenriep, 46, formerly of 1092 Stow Road, was arrested Thursday at a friend’s house in Fryeburg on two charges of arson, […]
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Carthage man pleads guilty to burning truck, sentenced to five years
FARMINGTON — A Carthage man has been sentenced to serve 20 months of a five-year sentence for burning his father’s truck on Dec. 15, according to Franklin County court documents. Spencer C. Knox, 23, will serve four years of probation after his release from the Department of Corrections. Knox pleaded guilty Monday in Franklin County […]