BANGOR — A local transient charged early Christmas morning with aggravated assault after police say he stabbed a Brewer woman in the wrist had his bail set at $10,000 Friday by District Court Judge Bruce Jordan. “He can’t come up with anywhere near that amount,” Ben Fowler, lawyer for the day, said of Steven Mathis, […]
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Augusta woman charged with stabbing boyfriend
AUGUSTA (AP) — An Augusta woman charged with stabbing her boyfriend in the back and shoulder after he came home late and drunk has been held on $20,000 bail. Ariana Lee Doherty appeared Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court on a charge of elevated aggravated assault. She remains in jail. The 27-year-old Doherty also agreed […]
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Defense: More to story in fatal Augusta stabbing
AUGUSTA (AP) — A lawyer hired to represent a Maine man charged with killing his 24-year-old girlfriend says the public is getting only one side of the story. Defense lawyer James Lawley called the death of Jillian Jones a tragedy and said that it appears that drug and alcohol played a role in her death […]
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Cousin arrested on 5 counts of murder in deaths of mom, 4 kids stabbed in NYC home
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who neighbors said struggled to survive in America was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of his cousin’s wife and her four children in their Brooklyn home — using a butcher knife. The suspect, 25-year-old Mingdong Chen, implicated himself in the killings late […]
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Police: Victim in Old Town stabbing was pregnant
OLD TOWN (AP) — State police said the Old Town woman fatally stabbed by her boyfriend this week was pregnant. Police said 35-year-old April Haskell was killed by her boyfriend on Wednesday night before a state trooper responding to the couple’s apartment shot and killed the boyfriend, identified as 28-year-old Christopher Ouellette. An autopsy Thursday […]
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Police investigate stabbing in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — A 37-year-old Sabattus man suffered serious cuts in an apparent stabbing Wednesday night on Cushing Street, according to police. Brunswick police received a call at 6 p.m. reporting a fight in the middle of Cushing Street in front of the Beverage Rack. “When we got here, we found a 37-year-old man behind the […]
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Stabbing trial begins with grisly testimony
Edwards, the first witness in 36-year-old Raikuez Melchoirre’s long-delayed trial, testified Tuesday that he had only vague memories of the June 19, 2011, fight that broke out at a friend’s beer party at 73 College St. in Lewiston. At first, he didn’t even know he was being stabbed. “I thought he was just punching me […]
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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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Peabody pleads not guilty in July stabbing
AUBURN — Bryan Peabody pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he stabbed a man in a late-night dispute over a couch in July. Peabody, 18, of 24 Cottage St., Lewiston, was arrested July 20 and charged with stabbing George H. Ross with a knife at an apartment on Main Street in Mechanic Falls. The […]
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Lewiston man charged in stabbing claims self-defense
LEWISTON — A city man charged in a Tuesday night stabbing appeared in court Wednesday where his attorney said he acted in self-defense. Mahad Hassan, 25, of 214 Blake St. was charged with elevated aggravated assault, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. The victim, Abdi Bihi, 33, a transient, was taken to Central […]