FARMINGTON — A Franklin County Superior Court jury found a Madrid Township man guilty Friday of sexually abusing a teenage boy in 2008. John A. Fahnley, 59, also was found not guilty of sexually assaulting the boy in 2008 and not guilty of sexually abusing him in 2009. The incidents occurred at Fahnley’s home, according […]
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Chesterville man pleads guilty in sex case
FARMINGTON — A Chesterville man pleaded guilty Monday to sexual contact with a child under age 15. Justice Nancy Mills sentenced Jason J. Bergeron, 36, in Franklin County Superior Court to 18 months of a five-year prison sentence and four years probation. Bergeron pleaded to a felony charge of unlawful sexual contact. The state dismissed […]
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Rumford man pleads guilty to sexual assault against child
FARMINGTON — A Rumford man pleaded guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a child under 12 in 2012. Justice Nancy Mills sentenced David Paquette, 36, to serve three years of an 18-year sentence and 10 years of probation. A conviction on the charge carries up to 30 years in prison and up to a $50,000 fine. […]
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Wilton man pleads guilty to throwing Molotov cocktail
FARMINGTON — A Wilton man pleaded guilty Thursday to throwing a Molotov cocktail toward three men as he drove by a home in Jay last summer. Benjamin York, 19, and Kahner Dee, 19, both of Jay, and Juan Colon, 23, of Livermore Falls chased Jason White, 44, to Wilton, and struck him with a club […]
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Jay man pleads guilty in beating case
FARMINGTON — A Jay man pleaded guilty Tuesday to beating a Wilton man with a wooden club on June 30 on Main Street in Wilton. Kahner Dee, 19, pleaded guilty to felony assault and had a charge of aggravated assault dismissed in a plea agreement. Judge Susan Oram accepted the plea and a disposition that […]
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Wisconsin man convicted of drunken-driving homicide that killed Rumford woman in 2011
DARLINGTON, Wis. — A Shullsburg, Wis., man was convicted of three felonies in Lafayette County Circuit Court on Tuesday in Darlington for a 2011 crash that killed a 21-year-old Rumford woman. In a report published Thursday in the Wisconsin State Journal, a jury found Kyle Monahan, 24, guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a […]
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Man ends bid to withdraw guilty plea in sex case
FARMINGTON — A Jay man has dropped his request to withdraw a guilty plea to having sexual contact with a child under 12 in 2010, according to court documents. Ralph O. Metcalf, 34, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful sexual contact in a plea agreement after attorneys gave opening statements at a jury […]
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Former Chelsea selectwoman guilty of taking kickback from plowing contractor
BANGOR — After deliberating for 5½ hours, a jury of five men and seven women found a former Chelsea selectwoman guilty Tuesday on three counts of extortion. Carole Swan, 55, of Chelsea was accused of demanding kickbacks from Frank Monroe, a Whitefield contractor who plowed and sanded the town’s roads. Swan maintained that she was […]
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Dixfield man pleads guilty in unpaid bill dispute
FARMINGTON — A Dixfield man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing a Carthage man in the forearm with a screwdriver in April in a dispute over an unpaid bill. Peter Gallant, 40, pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to a felony charge of aggravated assault. If the case had gone to trial, the court would […]
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Lisbon man seeks new trial in attempted murder case involving Auburn cop
PORTLAND — A Lisbon man is hoping the state’s highest court will vacate his conviction for trying to kill Auburn police by ramming a dump truck into a cruiser during a high-speed chase in 2008. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court, acting as the law court, heard oral arguments on the case Tuesday. Bartolo Ford was […]