BERWICK (AP) — A judge has doubled the bail of a registered sex offender from Berwick charged with trying to lure young girls into his vehicle after two more girls came forward. A judge Wednesday at the request of prosecutors doubled 23-year-old Kevin Weeden’s bail to $50,000. He did not enter a plea and his […]
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Berwick man charged with trying to lure girls
BERWICK (AP) — A Berwick man already on Maine’s sex offender registry has been charged with trying to lure two fifth-grade girls into his vehicle by offering them candy. Police said 23-year-old Kevin Weeden faces charges of solicitation of a child to commit a prohibited act, failure to register as a sex offender and prohibited […]
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Jay man sentenced to serve five years in sex case
FARMINGTON — A Jay man was sentenced Friday to serve five years of a 10-year sentence at the Maine Department of Corrections on a felony charge of unlawful sexual contact against a child under age 12 in August 2010. The sentence for Ralph O. Metcalf, 34, includes 12 years probation due to the age of […]
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Sex offender faces new charge of failing to register
FARMINGTON — Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested an Avon man Tuesday for failing to register as a sex offender and failing to give police or the state a new address. Patrick Crocker, 48, is a lifetime registrant as a sex offender, according to the Maine Sex Offender Registry. His convictions include unlawful sexual contact with […]
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Monmouth sex offender charged with sex crime
AUGUSTA — A Kennebec County grand jury has indicted a registered sex offender from Monmouth on a sex crime. Carroll Edwin Cooper Jr., 52, was indicted last week on a felony count of possession of sexually explicit materials. According to the indictment, Cooper is charged with intentionally and knowingly transporting, exhibiting, purchasing, possessing or having […]