Mark Halle, accused of breaking into the woman’s home and raping her at gunpoint, pleaded not guilty to six charges.
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Maine supreme court hears restitution appeal in North Pond hermit case
Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years, is appealing a $1,125 restitution order to fix a road that led to his campsite.
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Lincoln County man held on federal firearms charge
Peter Poland, who had a previous drug trafficking conviction, is accused of being a felon in possession of three guns.
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Former Portland High teacher sentenced on child porn charge
Gerald White, 44, of Freeport was arrested in December on a charge of possessing sexually explicit material of a child younger than 12.
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Alleged drug robbery at South Portland hotel leads to 3 arrests
Three people are charged after a violent confrontation at the Days Inn on Maine Mall Road, police said.
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Two men sentenced in Franklin County arsons, burglaries
Two other men also have been charged in connection with last summer’s crimes.
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Arrowsic man gets six-month sentence for collecting dead mother’s Social Security benefits
Robert Caton, 72, is also ordered to pay back the $162,786 he stole over more than a decade.
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New York man gets more than 8 years for smuggling opioids to Maine
Damien Corbett, 40, had been delivering pills for more than a year to a North Berwick couple to distribute.
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Windham man pleads not guilty to murder, manslaughter in wife’s killing
Noah Gaston, 33, is accused of shooting his wife, 34-year-old Alicia Gaston, with a shotgun as she came up the stairwell of their home on Jan. 14.
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Man charged with killing Maine woman was freed from jail 3 weeks earlier
Timothy Johnson was released from a detention center because prosecutors didn’t meet a 30-day deadline to file charges stemming from a previous alleged assault.