GRAY — Two people were arrested late Wednesday evening after drugs were found in their vehicle during a traffic stop, according to police. Alyssa Ashley Johnson, 24, of Chelsea and Adam Uldall, 32, of Poland are both accused of possession of a schedule W drug, according to Capt. Don Goulet of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s […]
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Former Chelsea selectwoman guilty of taking kickback from plowing contractor
BANGOR — After deliberating for 5½ hours, a jury of five men and seven women found a former Chelsea selectwoman guilty Tuesday on three counts of extortion. Carole Swan, 55, of Chelsea was accused of demanding kickbacks from Frank Monroe, a Whitefield contractor who plowed and sanded the town’s roads. Swan maintained that she was […]
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Fate of Ex-Chelsea selectwoman, accused of extortion, in jury’s hands
BANGOR (AP) — The federal extortion trial of a former Chelsea selectwoman is in the hands of the jury. The jury in Carole Swan’s trial is expected to start deliberating Tuesday, following a dramatic Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor in which the defendant took the stand and the judge threatened to hold her […]
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2 out-of-state men face Maine kidnapping charges
CHELSEA (AP) — Two out-of-state teenagers accused of holding a man against his will are facing kidnapping charges. Maine state police said Friday that 18-year-old Ricardo David Perry, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., and 19-year-old Eugene Charleston, of Bridgeport, Conn., were arrested and were being held without bail at the Kennebec County jail. Lt. David Tripp […]
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Allan B. ‘Barney’ Roach
AUGUSTA — Allan B. “Barney” Roach, 89, of Chelsea, died Tuesday, July 9, at Augusta Rehabilitation and Nursing Care following a long illness. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, April 7, 1924, a son of the late Joseph E. and Charlotte H. (Whalen) Roach. Mr. Roach was a graduate of Stephens High School in […]
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Maine selectwoman on trial for stealing from feds
BANGOR (AP) — The trial is under way for a former Chelsea selectwoman charged with 10 counts of defrauding the federal government. Federal prosecutors said 55-year-old Carole Swan of Chelsea under-reported income on tax returns, made false statements to collect federal workers’ compensation benefits, and defrauded a federal government program by rigging a competition to […]