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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 […]

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12-year-old boy charged in fire

LEWISTON — Twelve-year-old Brody Covey is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, May 6, on three felony charges of arson in the fire that destroyed three apartment buildings in the downtown Monday. Covey, of Lewiston, was charged Thursday and is being held in a juvenile detention facility pending Monday’s hearing. Under Maine’s Juvenile Criminal Code, because […]