Maine wardens and Brewer police officers stopped the men on North Main Street in Brewer after determining their vehicle matched a witness description.
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Attorney says former Belgrade man not competent for trial in rape of 11-year-old
She says 22-year-old Travis R. Gerrier lacks the capacity to understand the length of the 20-year sentence the state is seeking.
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Authorities seize 5 pounds of pot in probe of crash
A North Carolina couple are charged with marijuana trafficking after police find the drug in their vehicle.
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Skowhegan police decry hoax about triple slaying
The department’s Facebook page was somehow duplicated with a phony post about fake murders in town.
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No bail for Mass. teen charged with decapitating classmate
The headless body of 16-year-old Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino was found near the Merrimack River in Lawrence on Thursday by a woman walking her dog.
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Sanford police issue warning about scam artist
They say a man in his 60s duped a woman into stealing a package from a resident’s front steps.
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Burglaries spiking in South Portland, police say
There have been 75 break-ins in the city so far this year compared to 45 during the same period in 2015.
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Two central Maine defendants face child sex abuse charges
In separate cases, the two suspects from Augusta and Windsor were arrested by police this week.
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Waterville man appeals sentence in weapons case
But the government says Brian Mulkern is just the type of person that the law was meant to address.
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N.Y. man gets 11½ years in prison for distributing heroin in Maine
Todd Rasberry, 35, was arrested and charged last year after federal agents seized 51 grams of heroin from a motel room in Scarborough.