The 25-year-old man was believed to be stranded on Bar Island before a multiagency search found him deceased.
Drew Johnson
Staff Writer
Drew is the night reporter for the Portland Press Herald. He previously covered South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth for the Sentry, Leader and Southern Forecaster. Though he is from Massachusetts, Drew grew up going to his family’s lake house in Denmark, Maine, learning to snow ski at Pleasant Mountain and water ski on Moose Pond. While he started as a “Vacationlander”, Drew adopted “the way life should be” motto and moved to Portland in 2021.
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UMaine student dies following gas leak at Washington County mill
The university identified the student as Kasie Malcolm, a junior studying chemical engineering at the university system’s Machias campus.
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Border Patrol arrests 4 after ‘suspicious activity’ at Calais bank
The 4 people were found to have been in the country illegally after a traffic stop in Crawford, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Anti-ICE protest outside Portland hotel ends with a last-second arrest
One man whacked a cooking instrument a few too many times outside the Residence Inn after police told about 30 loud but peaceful and joyous protesters to disperse.
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6 arrested during protests near Portland hotels suspected of hosting ICE agents
It was loud — and that was the point.
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Hundreds gather in Portland to protest actions by ICE
The demonstration came at the end of a week in which federal immigration officials said over 100 people had been detained in Maine.
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Jared Golden 1 of 7 House Democrats who voted for DHS spending bill
The 2nd District congressman said failing to fund the Department of Homeland Security ‘would undermine public safety and emergency response services.’
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Subzero temperatures expected across Maine, and that doesn’t count the wind chill
Winds could make conditions feel as cold as 20 to 30 below, meteorologists say, and more snow is expected starting Sunday night.
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Cumberland County sheriff: ICE arrest of corrections officer was ‘bush league’
Kevin Joyce said the officer, who was detained Wednesday night in Portland by several agents, has a ‘squeaky clean’ record.
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Maine woman interfered with Brewer police assuming they were ICE agents, officials say
Mary Conmee, of Orrington, has been served a court summons for disorderly conduct and obstructing government administration during a Brewer law enforcement operation Wednesday.