Emma Lewis, 18, of Hollis, charged with aggravated criminal mischief, was scheduled to make a first appearance this afternoon at Springvale District Court by video from York County Jail. She is held in lieu of $500 cash bail, a jail corrections officer said this morning.
Samantha Maxfield, 20, was arrested on Friday and charged with the Class C felony, She was released that day from York County Jail after posting $500 cash bail.
The pair are accused of vandalism by spray-painting graffiti on more than 20 properties throughout a Hollis neighborhood.
Maine State Police put out word on their Facebook page on Thursday that the vandalism had taken place. On Friday, they announced Maxfield’s arrest, and named Lewis as a “person of interest” in the case, later adding in an update that she had turned herself in.
Police said the vandalism took place at properties on Ropewalk Drive, Loren Lane, Mahlon Drive, Tanglewood Drive, Kingswood Drive, Cape Road and Plains Road.
Troopers said the spray painted damage to the properties is expected to exceed $2,000. The figure is outlined in the state statute as one of the components that defines aggravated criminal mischief.
A Class C felony carries a maximum prison term of five years.
It is the third recent incident in a spate of alleged criminal activity in Hollis in recent days. Last week, a Buxton man was arrested and charged with indecent conduct after he allegedly exposed his genitals to a 7-year-old in Hollis an then again to a group of people there who confronted him a couple of days later.
As well, a Hollis man was arrested earlier in the week and charged with criminal threatening after he allegedly donned a clown mask and taped a machete to his body in an act police said he claimed was a prank.
— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 324-4444 (local call in Sanford) or 282-1535, ext. 327 or [email protected].
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