FARMINGTON – A Franklin County judge set bail at $250,000 cash Wednesday for a Carthage man accused of cutting his 44-year-old girlfriend’s throat with a knife and repeatedly telling her to die, according to a police affidavit. Bennie T. Bowie Jr., 47, is also accused of punching the woman and repeatedly slamming her head on […]
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Wanted Carthage man picked up in Wells
FARMINGTON — A Carthage man accused of assaulting a woman early Sunday was taken into custody Tuesday in Wells, according to a post on the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department Facebook page. Bennie Bowie II, 47, was picked up by the Wells Police Department on a Franklin County warrant charging domestic violence aggravated assault. Bowie is […]
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Jay inmate charged with assault
FARMINGTON — A Jay man is accused of punching and kicking a fellow inmate Friday in the minimum security area at the Franklin County jail, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said Monday. Corrections officer Sgt. Walter Fails arrested Joseph L. Begin, 37, on a felony charge of aggravated assault on Sunday, Nichols said. A conviction on […]
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Jay man accused of abusing young child
FARMINGTON — A Jay man is accused of abusing a 2-year-old child, Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said Friday. Detective Kenneth Charles investigated and arrested Devin Medcoff, 20, on Thursday on a felony charge of aggravated assault, Nichols said. The county received a Maine Department of Health and Human Services referral. The child had […]
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Livermore Falls man accused of stabbing Turner man
LIVERMORE FALLS — A local man is accused of stabbing a 44-year-old Turner man twice late Wednesday with a large kitchen knife after a fight broke out on Meadowbrook Road, police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said Thursday. The man was stabbed in the top of the shoulder near the base of his neck and in […]
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Carthage man faces charges after he is accused of strangling wife
CARTHAGE — A 73-year-old man is accused of strangling his wife and terrorizing her Friday, according to Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. The woman escaped the residence and fled to Rumford Police Department to make the report, Nichols said in a release. She told police her husband, Robert Carver, of Carthage, “was very intoxicated […]
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New Sharon man accused of putting knife to woman’s throat
FARMINGTON — A New Sharon man faces charges after he was accused of putting a knife to a woman’s throat and choking her Sunday night, according to a police affidavit filed in a Farmington court. Timothy Hutchinson, 29, was arrested Monday and appeared Wednesday in court on felony charges of aggravated assault and terrorizing with […]
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Rumford man sentenced to five years for kidnapping
PARIS — A Rumford man who tried to rob a man he kidnapped at knifepoint last year was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday. Randall J. Chapman, 37, pleaded guilty to felony counts of kidnapping, robbery and aggravated assault in Oxford County Superior Court. He was sentenced to 12 years on the first two […]
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Rumford man sentenced for not taking medication
PARIS — A Rumford man who shot a man at a Richmond gas station in 2000 has pleaded guilty to violating conditions of his release for failing to take court-ordered medication. An Oxford County Superior Court judge revoked 60 days of Stanley Janiszcak’s probation Friday morning after he admitted to allegations that he had stopped taking […]
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Norway man arrested on charges of assaulting girlfriend
PARIS — Police said a Norway man wanted in Texas has been charged with choking and striking his girlfriend. Jason Scott Taylor, 40, who was residing at a Maple Street apartment complex, was arrested by Norway police Officer Stephen Cronce around midnight Tuesday on a felony charge of aggravated assault and misdemeanor domestic violence assault. According […]