AUBURN — A Mechanic Falls woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a 2014 Poland home invasion, which authorities said she orchestrated in an effort to get drugs. Shawn Wilson, 37, was indicted earlier this month by an Androscoggin County grand jury on a Class A felony charge of robbery, punishable by up […]
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Boston man gets $50,000 bail in Minot home robbery
AUBURN — A judge ordered $50,000 cash bail Wednesday for a Boston man charged in a Minot home robbery two months ago. Ishmael Douglas, 27, appeared in Androscoggin County Superior Court wearing a blue jail suit, his ankles shackled. His attorney, Allan Lobozzo, was seeking to reduce his client’s bail to $1,000. He said Douglas […]
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Livermore Falls man to serve 17 years in prison for arson
AUBURN — A Livermore Falls man who has admitted setting 1,000 fires in his lifetime was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in prison. Scott Violette, 39, pleaded guilty in Androscoggin County Superior Court to arson and aggravated criminal mischief in a fire on Feb. 16, 2011, at the Treasure Chest, a secondhand store near the […]
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Sabattus woman’s trial gets underway
AUBURN — A jury trial got underway Monday for the wife of a Sabattus man who is serving 15 years of a 25-year prison sentence for raping a preteen girl over a period of three years. Christal Natasha Gagnier, 26, faces two felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with the actions of her husband, Michael. […]
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Juvenile arson hearing continues in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A local police detective said Friday that he suspected within minutes of interviewing him that 12-year-old Brody Covey set a fire that burned three apartment buildings. Covey, now 13, has been charged with three counts of arson, one for each of the apartment buildings in which 75 people had resided. Lewiston police Detective […]
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On tape, boy tells officer, mother he set Lewiston blaze
Fires in Lewiston: Complete coverage of how the city battled a string of fires and worked to recover. LEWISTON — A then-12-year-old city boy confessed to police and again to his mother in a videotape shown in court on Monday that he set a fire on the back porch of 109 Blake St. on April 29. […]
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Lewiston boy won’t be tried as adult for arson
Fires in Lewiston: Complete coverage of how the city battled a string of fires and worked to recover. AUBURN — Prosecutors decided Thursday they would not seek to have a 13-year-old Lewiston boy tried as an adult on arson charges in an April fire that burned three downtown Lewiston buildings and left 75 people homeless. District […]