LUDLOW — A Ludlow man is dead after a a state police-involved shooting Sunday afternoon, Maine Department of Public Safety Spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a written statement late Sunday evening. State troopers had gone to the home of Alan Gillotti Sr., 52, on Smyrna Townline Road on Sunday to investigate an armed home invasion […]
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State Police: Woman’s death Saturday morning in Peru ‘suspicious’
PERU — Police identified a local woman who was found dead in her kitchen shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Her death is considered suspicious. Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland said an autopsy for 57-year-old Paula Nuttall is set for Sunday. She lived in a Main Street house with four other family members. One […]
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Maine State Police tracking dog pays visit to fourth-grade Dirigo Elementary class
PERU — A fourth-grade class got the chance to meet a Maine State Police tracking dog and the trooper who handles him Friday morning at Dirigo Elementary School. Maine State Trooper Adam Fillebrown was invited to Kristi Holmquist’s class to explain to students what he and his tracking dog, Aros, do while on the job. […]
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Shots fired trigger search in Leeds
LEEDS — State and local police searched Monday night for a possible shooting suspect in the area of Line Road. Just before 8 p.m., officers from the Maine State Police and Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department responded to a residence on Country View Drive for a possible shooting. A dispatcher said there was a “large altercation,” […]
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Investigation begins after a body is discovered on a Lebanon roadside
LEBANON — Maine State Police say the death of a young man whose body was found along the Long Swamp Road in Lebanon Saturday afternoon is under investigation. An autopsy is scheduled Sunday, June 22, at the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta, according to Maine State Police Spokesman, Stephen McCausland. The man is […]
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State trooper involved in shooting in Howland
HOWLAND — A state trooper wounded a Howland man in what police described as an armed confrontation at his Water Street home late Friday, state police said. Dale Saucier, 36, of Howland underwent emergency surgery at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after the incident, Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, […]
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Auburn man honored as ‘legendary trooper’
Retired Maine State Police Trooper Harold “Skid” Savage of Auburn has been given the Legendary Trooper award, the highest honor for a retired trooper. He received the honor Tuesday during the annual awards ceremony at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. Jarod Stedman of Troop E in Bangor was honored with the Trooper of […]
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Maine State Police honor top troopers in the state
VASSALBORO — Troopers from across Maine were among those honored Tuesday at the state police annual awards ceremony in Vassalboro. Earning the Charles Black Trooper of the Year honor was Jarod Stedman, who works out of Troop E in Bangor, according to Maine State Police Spokesman Stephen McCausland. Stedman was among 11 nominees for the […]
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Women lured victim to Rumford before he was robbed, kidnapped
RUMFORD — A local man sought by police for more than a week on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery and assault was arrested by Maine State Police in Gray on Wednesday. Randall J. Chapman, 37, of 48 Essex Ave. has been wanted since an incident May 19 when he fled over a guardrail toward the Androscoggin […]
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Peru traffic stop nets police two Rumford men on felony drug charges
PERU — Two Rumford men pleaded not guilty to felony drug trafficking charges at arraignments on Friday afternoon in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris. They were arrested by state police early Thursday evening following a traffic stop on Route 108 and taken to Oxford County Jail in Paris after failing to post $5,000 cash […]