Police and the Maine Department of Corrections are investigating the death of an inmate at the Cumberland County Jail. A correctional officer was doing routine rounds when they discovered an inmate unresponsive in their cell Friday morning, according a statement from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. The jail’s medical staff was unsuccessful at trying to […]
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Police, crime and courts news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Dennis Dechaine’s attorney alleges prosecutorial misconduct in latest bid for new trial
The defense team says the state ‘brought God into the courtroom’ when he was convicted of murder for the 1988 death of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry, stripping him of his constitutional right to a fair trial.
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Westbrook man sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child
Rayevon Deschambault, 28, was convicted on 2 counts of sexually exploiting a child after he recorded himself abusing a 14-year-old in 2019, according to court records.
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Lewiston man pleads guilty to federal charges for racially charged online threat in 2022
Charles Allen Barnes, 46, pleads guilty to sending a racially charged death threat via social media in August 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Waterville man arrested by FBI over online threats suffers from mental illness, family says
Benjamin Brown, 45, was arrested March 11 by the FBI over online threats to gun down President Biden, other politicians and immigrants and is being held pending further appearance in U.S. District Court in Bangor.
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Pipe and knife-wielding man charged with robbing Auburn BJ’s Wholesale Club twice
Police say they were able to identify Jeremy Proctor ‘in part due to his unique tattoos.’
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State trooper’s ankle broken, another is bitten during arrest in Limerick
State police charge a man and his girlfriend after two troopers are injured while responding to a domestic violence report on Saturday.
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Maine wants to keep housing some criminal defendants with mental illness in prison
Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
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New Hampshire diner fight leads to charges against former police officer from Maine
Aaron Goodwin, a former Portsmouth police officer, insists that the incident was not racially motivated.
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Portland police arrest man after 20-minute chase through city, onto I-295
Benjamin Martineau, 34, of Portland, faces several charges, including criminal restraint, domestic violence assault and terrorizing.