Junlong Bunleng underreported sales of roughly $2.5 million for more than a decade, according to prosecutors.
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Motorcyclist tries to elude police by hiding bike in bushes
York officers arrest Donald Hathaway of Portsmouth, N.H., and charge him with eluding an officer and drug possession.
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Four charged with cocaine trafficking in Bangor
Authorities say they have been investigating the ring, which included three Michigan men, for about a month.
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Former restaurant owner pleads guilty to underreporting $2.5 million in income
Junlong Bunleng, 51, former owner of the Pepper & Spice Thai Cuisine in Lewiston will be sentenced in January.
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Judge orders former prison guard to pay $1.1 million to woman he’s accused of assaulting
It’s unclear whether Joshua Dall-Leighton, who still faces criminal charges that he sexually attacked the woman in a prison van when she was an inmate, can or will pay her the award.
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Man pleads no contest in fatal crash in Etna
The judge says the case is an example of how the opioid epidemic is affecting more people than drug users and their families.
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Teacher at religious school in Freeport charged with sexual assault
Derek Michael Boyce, a math instructor at Pine Tree Academy, run by Seventh-day Adventists, is accused of gross sexual assault involving a 15-year-old girl.
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In plea deal, Cushing boat captain agrees to 4-year prison term for deaths of 2 crew members
Christopher A. Hutchinson admits guilt as part of the agreement, which needs approval from a judge, as one victim’s stepmother says the sentence isn’t long enough.
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Maine man who says he was wrongly accused of sex assault reaches settlement
The former Gouldsboro resident sued the county, police and prosecutors.
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Man gets 10 years in federal prison for trafficking drugs in central Maine
Denton Worrell, 21, of Rochester, N.Y., conspired to distribute heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine from 12 to 15 ‘trap houses,’ the U.S. attorney says.