AUGUSTA (AP) — A man who lived in the Maine woods for decades with barely any contact with the outside world has been indicted on more charges.
A Kennebec County grand jury on Thursday handed up six indictments against 47- year-old Christopher Knight; each charges one count of burglary and five have an additional theft count.
He had been indicted earlier this month on a burglary and theft charge in Somerset County.
Knight — known as the North Pond Hermit — was arrested in April after police say they caught him stealing food from a camp in Rome. Authorities have said he may be responsible for as many as 1,000 burglaries in the 27 years he lived alone in the woods.
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