The supermarket and other stores in the Route 1 plaza are evacuated as a precaution.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and courts news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Joint police effort yields drug bust in Bath-Brunswick area
Officers from three police departments, two sheriff’s offices and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency say a Delaware man had hundreds of doses of heroin.
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Doctor convicted of tax evasion files for bankruptcy
Joel A. Sabean, who is due to report for prison in two weeks, owes nearly $2.3 million, mostly for taxes and to his attorneys.
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Mother to sue police over fatal shooting of Oakland woman
Jessica Fagre says her daughter, Ambroshia, was no threat to police when they shot her in an incident last winter.
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Probe of Cumberland County Jail suicide shows no policies violated
Sheriff Kevin Joyce says staff members at the jail followed policies in responding to the suicide in March, but he won’t release the report.
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Angry Acton landlord accused of running into tenant with tractor
Leslie Dennis was charged with aggravated assault after he got angry at two tenants who were digging up plants in the yard, police say.
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Neighbors call Skowhegan woman charged with endangering child a good mother
Stephanie Freeman is free on bail after her arrest Sunday in an ‘atrocious’ apartment on Waterville Road.
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West Bath man pleads guilty to distributing heroin linked to death
Mickey Gilley bought the drugs in Portland and supplied them to a person in West Bath.
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Two of 3 suspects will plead guilty in 2015 beating death
The three previously had pleaded not guilty in the slaying of Joseph Marceau in an Augusta apartment.
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Portland man arrested on OUI, drug charges in Bath
John Andretta Jr. was stopped after his car was observed swerving ‘all over the road’ on Route 1, the Sagadahoc County sheriff says.