Police shut down Mere Point Road after the 35-year-old man fled into a house, threatening to kill himself with a gun.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and courts news from the Portland Press Herald.
Former Anson tax collector going on trial
Claudia Viles is charged with stealing more than $438,000 from the Somerset County town.
Sanford man accused of stealing car and credit card in Alfred
Brandon Ingalls now faces nearly 20 charges in connection with the case, according to police.
West End shooting linked to quarrel over woman
When two armed men scuffled on Memorial Day, a gun went off, seriously wounding one of them.
Man in critical condition after stabbing in Bath
Police say the man was injured during an altercation in an apartment on South Street.
Maine defendant who lost his right to an attorney appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
If the court takes up the case of convicted robber Joshua Nisbet, it could become a national test case on the constitutional right to legal counsel in criminal cases.
Proving that attempted burglary led to woman’s cardiac death no easy task
A person is guilty of felony murder if the victim dies, even if never touched, and it’s ‘a reasonably foreseeable consequence’ of the crime, says Maine law.
Former Bowdoin student accused of 2015 rape pleads to lesser charge
Although Logan Taylor, 22, was facing up to 30 years for gross sexual assault, a felony, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, and was sentenced to five days in jail.
Maine courts reverse course, say records will remain public
Court officials had begun sealing the records of dismissed cases without any public notice.
New York man sentenced for drug trafficking in Maine
Wayman Sparrow was also involved in a March 2013 shootout at the Lafayette Arms Apartments in Portland, police say.