Jean Harmon is accused of assaulting the town’s solid waste manager, but says the two were ‘Gibbs cuffing,’ a playful slap popularized by a character on the hit TV show ‘NCIS.’
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Madison woman arrested on 12 counts of drug trafficking after car chase in Augusta
Nicole Lamphere, 37, was arrested after leading police on a short chase on Civic Center Drive that ended behind the Augusta Civic Center.
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Man sentenced for illegally possessing a firearm he stole in Scarborough
A convicted felon from Gardiner was accused of stealing a rifle from a home in which he was doing plumbing work last year.
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Maine motel owner charged with abusing 3 children
Court documents indicate the Bucksport man accused of abusing three children, bound a 6-year-old girl and hung her upside down from a hook.
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Augusta woman charged with 16 grafitti counts has ‘intense desire to paint,’ police say
Darbe Anagnost, 35, is accused of defacing 20 locations after a police investigation that took weeks.
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New York man sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to sell drugs in central Maine
Andre Fields, 56, of Bronx, New York, conspired with others to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin and 280 grams of crack from central Maine homes and hotel rooms.
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Family of roofer who died in fall sues, saying employer discouraged use of safety gear
Alan Loignon’s family makes the claim in a $2.5 million wrongful-death lawsuit against Loignon’s employer – and half-brother – Shawn Purvis.
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Indictments charge 22 people with drug trafficking in Augusta
A Kennebec County grand jury charges both Maine and out-of-state residents.
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Jury rules Augusta officer did not use excessive force in 2015 shooting of man who held knife
Augusta police Officer Laura Drouin, who shot and injured then-Riverview patient Jason Begin in a 2015 confrontation, was cleared Friday in a federal civil lawsuit.
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Bar Harbor man found guilty of raping and murdering former classmate
Jalique Keene, 22, testified in his own defense Friday and acknowledged that a security camera showed him carrying the lifeless body of 19-year-old Mikaela Conley in the early morning of June 1, 2018.