AUBURN — State police said a Rumford woman was arrested early Sunday following a short chase along Route 4 from Turner to Auburn. Elsa Konopka, 23, was charged with possession of crack cocaine, failing to stop for an officer, possession of drug paraphernalia and operating without a license. According to a written statement from state […]
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Gray-New Gloucester High School evacuated for bomb search
NEW GLOUCESTER — A handwritten note found in the girls’ bathroom prompted an evacuation of Gray-New Gloucester High School on Monday. According to a news release from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were alerted to a bomb threat written on a note that the staff discovered around 1:50 p.m. The school was evacuated. Bomb […]
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Windsor man shoots, injures himself during 5-hour police standoff
WINDSOR — An overnight standoff with police in Windsor ended early Saturday morning when a 36-year-old man shot himself inside his home. Police were called to the Barton Road home of Wayne Bland around 9 p.m. Friday after his relatives called police to say the man was suicidal and “had taken a number of pills,” […]
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Police investigating stabbing in Calais
CALAIS — The Maine State Police and the Calais Police Department are investigating a stabbing that took place Friday afternoon at a Chapel Street residence. The victim, 56-year-old John Haskins of Calais, initially was taken to Calais Regional Hospital but was transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor on Friday night, according to Maine […]
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Maine State Police seize more than four pounds of pot in Bethel
BETHEL — Tail lights not working on a vehicle being driven in Bethel Sunday evening led to the discovery and seizure of more than 4 pounds of marijuana, Maine State Police Lt. Walter Grzyb said Wednesday afternoon. The information was also made public on Monday on the state police Facebook site. At about 7:45 p.m. Sunday, […]
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State trooper fatally shoots man in Aroostook County
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 […]