In each case, cash is stolen, police say.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and courts news from the Portland Press Herald.
Augusta police field complaints about counterfeit $20 bills
Police say the counterfeits are of good quality but feel different from the real thing.
Jurors in trial of man accused of shooting wife in Saco hear frantic 911 call
Prosecutors say Gregory Owens of New Hampshire broke into a house in Saco in an attempt to kill his wife and shot one of the homeowners, too.
Waterville man ordered to serve 12 years in prison for drug trafficking
Brian Danaher told police he was ‘making a killing’ marketing the drugs he ferried up from Portland.
Gorham man charged with assaulting 4-month-old daughter
Lee Keene faces charges of aggravated assault and assault on a child.
Man accused of shooting wife in staged Saco break-in goes on trial
Opening statements are scheduled for Tuesday in the federal case against Gregory Owens, 59, of Londonderry, N.H.
Portland man sentenced to 10 years for robbing Forest Avenue credit union
Several people recognized 43-year-old Thomas A. Monat from surveillance images taken during the robbery.
Convicted sex offender accused of making videos on Bowdoin campus, elsewhere
Stephen L. McIntire, 55, was a member of a support group for sex offenders that had met at a Brunswick church until the group was told to meet elsewhere in November.
Landlord expected to change plea, admit he murdered two Biddeford teenagers
An attorney says James Pak, 77, wants to spare the survivor of the 2012 shootings, his wife and the victims’ families the ordeal of a trial.
Two local teens charged with heroin trafficking in Saco
Police say Zachary Adams, 19, of Saco and Cole Goulet, 19, of Biddeford were selling the drug from the Sunrise Motel.