The Maine Deadly Force Review Panel, created the same year as the Augusta incident, recommends officers identify themselves as police officers loudly when knocking at someone’s door.
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Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Lewiston High School, Bates College students help launch domestic abuse awareness campaign
Lewiston High School and Bates College students helped launch Finding Our Voices’ second annual poster campaign raising awareness of intimate partner violence.
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Posted inFranklin, Maine Crime, News, The Franklin Journal
Industry man taken into custody after standoff
A man inside a house on Taylor Road is accused of assaulting a woman and shooting a gun, but not at the woman.
Posted inLivermore Falls Advertiser
Safe Voices receives grant for second pet friendly shelter
Safe Voices is set to open their second pet friendly shelter in Farmington with the help of a grant from RedRover. The shelter will be open in early 2023.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Norridgewock man sentenced on manslaughter charge for crash that killed Farmington woman
Prosecutors say Joshua Savage, 33, was under the influence of drugs when his vehicle cross the center line in 2020 and struck another car carrying Sally McKinley and her son.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Former Kennebec County Sheriff’s deputy indicted on sexual assault, multiple domestic violence charges
Daniel R. Ross, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting, assaulting and threatening a woman. He remains jailed and has been terminated by the county.
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Police Chief says listen, support, believe
Continue reaching out until you get an answer, get help, Wilton Police Chief Heidi Wilcox urges those in domestic violence situations.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Augusta police bring back rape suspect from Oregon
Damien Sanchez, 26, of Roseburg, Oregon, was arrested recently on a warrant related to an alleged assault at an Augusta hotel.
Posted inMaine, Uncategorized
Former partners detail abuse by man sought in death of girlfriend in Acadia
Two women who dated Raymond Lester about a decade ago say he was emotionally and physically abusive. They came forward after Lester was charged in the death of his girlfriend, Nicole Mokeme, 35, last week in Acadia.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Brothers’ argument over T-shirt led to shooting death of Wells toddler, police say
Police say that Andrew Huber Young, 19, got in a fight with his brother and was kicked out of the family house, only to return hours later with a gun, firing shots that killed Octavia Huber-Young. She would have turned 2 in July.