The former Massachusetts man had rented a snowmobile in Maine and fled to Canada to avoid charges that he concealed assets from is creditors.
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Augusta man headed to jail for Gardiner arson
The blaze destroyed the camper trailer home of a family of five, but no one was home at the time of the fire.
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Augusta man gets 5-year sentence for having baseball-size bag of cocaine
Donald E. Bowden will serve that term after he finishes 40 months for violating probation.
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Woman who stole $22,000 from safe gets 6 months in jail
She pleads guilty to felony theft after using a crowbar to remove a family member’s stored cash.
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Record amount of heroin seized in Sanford drug investigation, officials say
Police charge two Maine men with trafficking, and agents also confiscate a large cache of the drug headed to the state from Massachusetts.
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Portland superintendent denounces alleged hate crime
Xavier Botana says police will increase their presence outside school buildings for the near future and the school department will consider additional security measures.
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Maine police departments say they’re ready as recreational pot becomes legal
With the voter=approved law now in effect, departments take cues from other states’ legalization of the drug.
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A violent offender’s last act, a lesson for law enforcement
Norman J. Strobel Jr.’s deadly shootout in Maine last fall ended a lifelong pattern of abuse against women, a history that often managed to fly under the radar of successive investigators.
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Portland police investigate hate crime reported by high school students
The four black Casco Bay ninth-graders told police that an older white teen made a ‘derogatory and racist statement’ to them outside the school and then brandished a knife.
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Bonny Eagle cheerleading coach accused of having sexual relationship with student
Nicholas Perry, 21, of Standish is released on $5,000 cash bail after his arrest by Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies.