Brian Morin, 30, charged with three counts of arson Brian Morin, now 34, was charged with three counts of arson in a fire that destroyed two vacant apartment buildings on Bartlett Street and damaged an occupied building on Horton Street on May 6, 2013. He pleaded guilty in 2014 to the three felony charges and […]
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Lewiston man charged in last year’s downtown fires to serve up to seven years
AUBURN — A Lewiston man pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of arson and agreed to serve up to seven years in prison for setting fires that burned several Lewiston apartment buildings last year. Brian Morin, 30, is one of the two remaining defendants charged in a spate of downtown fires. He was charged with […]
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Prosecutors dismiss arson charges against teenager
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday dismissed three arson charges against a 13-year-old boy charged with setting a fire last spring that destroyed three downtown apartment buildings. A judge threw out last fall’s confession by then-12-year-old Brody Covey made during a May interview with police as well as a second confession captured by […]
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Three of four defendants charged in Lewiston fires still facing trial
LEWISTON — More than seven months after a rash of fires that destroyed 10 downtown apartment buildings within a week, displacing more than 100 people, three of four people charged with arson still face trial. A judge determined in August that one of the defendants wasn’t competent to stand trial and likely wouldn’t become competent. […]
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State won’t appeal judge’s ruling in Lewiston arson case
LEWISTON — Prosecutors decided Tuesday not to appeal a judge’s order to block from trial the confessions of a 13-year-old boy charged with three counts of arson in a fire last spring that destroyed three apartment buildings. The downtown fire burned so fast and hot that it left little physical evidence for prosecutors to press […]
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Judge suppresses boy’s confession in Lewiston arson
LEWISTON — A judge on Wednesday ordered that the confession of a 13-year-old local boy charged with three counts of arson in a rash of apartment building fires in the city’s downtown be suppressed. Eighth District Court Judge Rick Lawrence ruled on a motion to suppress statements made to police by then-12-year-old Brody Covey during […]
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13-year-old boy charged in Lewiston arson moved to foster home
Fires in Lewiston: Complete coverage of how the city battled a string of fires and worked to recover. LEWISTON — A 13-year-old boy charged with three counts of arson in connection to downtown apartment building fires last spring has been released from a juvenile corrections center. Brody Covey was transferred to a therapeutic residential foster home […]
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For boy, crime, filth, chaos and love were all part of life at 105-111 Blake
It was the third day of a court hearing that would have a dramatic effect on the life of 13-year-old Brody Covey. Three months earlier, Brody was charged with setting fire to his apartment building at 105-111 Blake Street in downtown Lewiston. It was the first of three unrelated arson fires that would strike the […]
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Arson confession may have been motivated by ‘shame’
LEWISTON — Arson suspect Brody Covey may have confessed to the crime because a Lewiston police detective gave him a “moral excuse” to confess, suggesting the teen had a right to be angry about living in a condemned apartment building that the officer said was unfit for his own dog, according to expert testimony of […]
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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 […]