Maine news, sports, weather from Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, Maine

August 27, 2012

Dispatches

From staff and news services

SACO

Mom, son 'lucky to be alive' after SUV rollover on I-95

State police say a Massachusetts woman and her 5-year-old son are lucky to be alive after their sport utility vehicle rolled over three times before bouncing off a guardrail and landing upside down in the southbound passing lane of the Maine Turnpike Sunday.

State Police Trooper David Alexander said the crash, which took place in Saco around 2 p.m., caused traffic to back up for about five miles.

The driver of the 2002 Chevrolet Blazer, 26-year-old Jaimie Overlock of Taunton, Mass., was transported to Maine Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

Her son, who was riding in a booster seat, was also taken to the hospital to be checked out. No one else was in the vehicle.

A registered nurse and the town of Wells' fire chief happened to be following Overlock when the crash occurred and tended to her injuries while emergency crews made their way to the crash site, Alexander said.

"There were some good Samaritans today," Alexander said.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Alexander said Overlock lost control of her vehicle.

SANFORD

Suspect in armed robbery of store arrested

A man suspected of holding up a Sanford convenience store on Saturday afternoon was arrested at his home early Sunday morning.

The Sanford Police Department said they arrested 28-year-old Michael Decelle of Kennebunk and charged him with robbery. He was being held Sunday night at the York County Jail on $100,000 cash bail.

Police said a man entered the Lil General convenience store in Sanford, displayed a semi-automatic pistol, emptied both cash drawers and stole cigarettes.

Police used surveillance camera footage, which they distributed to other police agencies, to identify the suspect.

They set up surveillance around Decelle’s home and at approximately 2:10 a.m. Sunday, he returned. After a brief foot chase, he was taken into custody.

PORTLAND

Got ideas on voting process? Next public hearing is Thursday

A commission looking into how Maine's election process can be improved plans its next hearing in Portland this week.

The five-member panel will hold a public hearing Thursday evening at the Portland Public Library.

At its first hearing last week in Augusta, the commission was told look for ways to make voting easier, not more difficult. Some of the more than 50 people attending also expressed concern about the possibility of a law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.

The commission was appointed in May with legislative orders to study voter participation, the system governing voter registration and the conduct of elections in Maine.

It will also hold hearings in Bangor, Farmington, Lewiston, Wells, Presque Isle and Machias and report to the Legislature no later than February.

CONCORD, N.H.

Woman gets prison term for road rage stun gunning

A New Hampshire woman has been sentenced to 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison for using a stun gun on a pregnant woman during a road rage incident.

A Merrimack County Superior Court judge sentenced 24-year-old Carissa Williams of Pembroke on Friday.

Williams was convicted in February of assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal trespass for the March 2011 attack in Concord.

The Concord Monitor said Williams got out of her car on an Interstate 93 exit ramp, opened the door to Corinne Leclair-Holler's car and shocked her in the thigh with a stun gun as Leclair-Holler screamed, "I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant."

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