RANGELEY — One person was injured early Sunday and a Lewiston man was charged after a fight at Moose Alley on Main Street. Kevin Deschambeault, 44, of Lewiston was issued a summons on a misdemeanor charge of assault, Rangeley Police Chief Russell French said. Officer Jacob Richards responded at 12:06 a.m. to a fight at […]
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Police search for Livermore home invasion, robbery suspect
LIVERMORE — State police are searching for a man who reportedly entered a home on Federal Road early Wednesday, assaulted a resident and took an undisclosed amount of cash. Police were called to 1523 Federal Road at about 2 a.m. “The resident received significant but not life threatening injuries,” Lt. Walter Grzyb wrote in […]
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Industry man facing multiple charges
RUMFORD — Police said an Industry man was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a woman and preventing her from calling for help. Zachary Webber, 34, was arrested in Mexico by Patrolman Lawrence Briggs on charges of attempted gross sexual assault, obstructing the report of a crime or injury, operating under the influence and operating after revocation, Rumford Police […]
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Bail set for Wilton escapee suspect
RUMFORD — A District Court judge set bail at $40,000 Wednesday for a Wilton man facing more than a dozen charges after escaping from a police van, assaulting a police officer and a local woman, and crashing a stolen car into a tree. Derek Cook, 31, of Wilton was arrested Tuesday after he escaped from […]
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Jay man pleads guilty to abusing child
FARMINGTON — A Jay man pleaded guilty Friday to physically abusing a 2-year-old child on July 13, 2015, in Wilton. Justice William Stokes sentenced Devin M. Medcoff, 21, to two years in prison, all suspended, and two years of probation. Medcoff entered an Alford plea to a felony charge of assault on a child under 6 […]
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Former Bates student gets 2nd chance after drunken assault
AUBURN — A former Bates College student pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of aggravated criminal trespass stemming from an early-morning drunken assault last year on an 82-year-old man in his home near the campus. Mac Jackson, 23, of Mount Hood, Ore., will be able to withdraw that plea in two years and plead guilty […]
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Stratton man accused of assaulting Eustis teens
EUSTIS – Police said a local man is accused of physically assaulting two teenagers Thursday night outside the Lake Shore Apartments on Old Dead River Road in Stratton Village. Jonathan Libby, 28, was charged by summons with two misdemeanor counts of assault, Lt. David Rackliffe of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. Cpl. Matthew […]
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New Sharon man sentenced for terrorizing
FARMINGTON – A Franklin County judge sentenced a New Sharon man to four years in prison, with all but one year suspended, after he pleaded guilty Friday to threatening to kill his girlfriend with a knife March 15. Timothy Hutchinson, 29, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of domestic violence terrorizing with a dangerous weapon […]
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Turner woman to serve one year in Lewiston home invasion
AUBURN — A Turner woman was sentenced Friday to serve one year of an eight-year prison sentence for her role in a 2013 Lewiston home invasion in which she and another woman posed as city workers conducting a survey as a ploy to rob an apartment dweller. Her four co-defendants, including two women, had already […]
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Mexico police log
MEXICO – The Police Department responded to 129 incidents over the past three weeks, including the following: * Oct. 20: A resident reported receiving a phone call from a company stating that they would reward the resident with $9,000 if they sent some money. “This is a new phone scam, and I’ve been advising those […]