AUBURN — Police arrested the man witnesses saw running from a Clover Lane home Tuesday night, chasing a woman with a long kitchen knife and yelling, “I’m gonna kill you!” Eric Griffey, 44, of 27 Clover Lane was charged with elevated aggravated assault, a Class A felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. […]
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Lewiston police arrest suspect in July 4 stabbing
LEWISTON – Police on Thursday arrested a local man on charges in connection with an attack on July 4 that left another man with multiple stab wounds. Police said Kamari Solomon, 18, was arrested about 1 p.m. after a brief foot chase on Main Street. He was charged with elevated aggravated assault and booked at […]
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Family, police still seek clues in unsolved 1990 homicide
PORTLAND — Norway resident Kyle Sampson visited 64 Pine St. in the West End for the first time Monday afternoon. It was not a social visit. He wants to know who killed his father in the block between Brackett and West streets 25 years ago on Nov. 13, 1990. “This is a murder — it […]
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Phillip Audet sentenced to eight years for stabbing uncle
AUBURN — A 30-year-old Poland man was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday for a 2014 knife attack against his uncle that resulted in more than $64,000 in medical bills. Phillip Audet, who was convicted of the Class B felony crime of aggravated assault by a jury in June, was sentenced by Androscoggin County Superior Court […]
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Livermore Falls man accused of stabbing Turner man
LIVERMORE FALLS — A local man is accused of stabbing a 44-year-old Turner man twice late Wednesday with a large kitchen knife after a fight broke out on Meadowbrook Road, police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said Thursday. The man was stabbed in the top of the shoulder near the base of his neck and in […]
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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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OOB man charged with killing grandmother sent for evaluation
ALFRED (AP) — An Old Orchard Beach man charged with beating and stabbing his grandmother to death in the home they shared, then setting it on fire, has been sent by a judge to a state psychiatric hospital for a 60-day evaluation. The York County Superior Court judge issued the order to send 25-year-old Derek […]
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High court denies Lewiston man’s appeal for new trial
The state’s highest court has denied a new trial to a Lewiston man convicted of stabbing his former girlfriend nearly two dozen times. In May, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in Portland in the case of Cleveland Cruthirds, 27, who was found guilty last year of elevated aggravated assault, burglary and violation […]
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Poland man captured in Portland after stabbing that injures uncle
POLAND — A local man was seriously injured Sunday when he was stabbed in a fight with his nephew, who was arrested after a chase into Cumberland County. The nephew, Phillip Audet, 29, of Poland was charged Sunday evening with elevated aggravated assault and violating conditions of release. He is on probation after being convicted […]