The attorney general’s office had sought unedited video taken in September of a jailhouse interview with Andrea Balcer, who admits having murdering her parents in 2016 at their Winthrop home.
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Former Skowhegan Planning Board member pleads guilty to child porn charges
Christopher Kruse, 50, entered pleas in U.S. District Court in Bangor and faces a minimum of five years in prison.
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Contractor charged with failing to finish $170,000 worth of work
David Webber of Monroe is charged with theft by deception and was jailed on $50,000 bail.
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Former Jay man accused of killing girlfriend enters insanity plea
James Sweeney waives a jury trial and pleads not criminally responsible to a murder charge in the death of Wendy Douglass in July 2017.
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Hope man sentenced for stalking woman by putting tracking device on her car
Ian Robertson, 38, will serve 20 days in jail and a one-year probation for following the woman and their child after a four-year relationship ended.
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Cumberland County corrections officer arrested on drug-dealing charge
Davis Glazener of South Portland is charged with cocaine trafficking, but there was no evidence yet suggesting it was connected with his work at the Cumberland County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Belgrade sexual assault appeal focuses on competency issue
The Law Court is looking at determining which side must prove a defendant competent to stand trial.
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Suspect in State Theatre stabbing told police he used key-chain nail file
Joseph Lewis, 27, of Portland is charged with felony assault that followed a series of verbal altercations with a group of people near the concert stage.
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Police: Teen struck by car in Windsor while trying to board school bus
The boy suffered bumps and bruises, while the driver, a 51-year-old Union woman, was charged with failing to stop for a school bus.
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Teen boys charged with arson after fire destroys portable outhouse in Richmond
‘When you have an incident like this, everybody involved has a certain level of sadness … ,’ said Richmond police Chief Scott MacMaster.