AUBURN — A Lewiston man accused of punching, kicking and stomping a man who was unconscious admitted to a related charge Thursday. Omar Omar, 23, of 169 Bartlett St. pleaded guilty in Androscoggin County Superior Court to a felony charge of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, punishable by up to five years in prison. […]
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Eustis woman pleads guilty to threatening former neighbor
FARMINGTON — A Eustis woman pleaded guilty in a Farmington court Tuesday to using a BB air rifle to threaten a man walking his dog near her home last year. Marcia L. Higgins, 65, entered her plea to criminal threatening, based on her belief that she is not guilty but thinks that based on the […]
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Buckfield man pleads guilty in Paris rampage
PARIS — A Buckfield man who was arrested in June 2016 after a dispute over hamburger led to a rampage with his truck pleaded guilty Wednesday to reckless conduct and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Dale Bennett, 33, also pleaded guilty to driving to endanger. When Bennett was arrested in 2016, he was also charged […]
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Norway man charged with hitting man in head with shovel
NORWAY — Bail was set at $500 cash Monday for a Norway man charged with hitting a man over the head with a shovel and threatening to slit his girlfriend’s throat, officials said. Matthew Wightman, 31, was arrested Friday, May 5, on charges of felony aggravated assault and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, and […]
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Hebron woman charged with assaulting man with two-by-four
HEBRON — Bail was set at $1,500 or $40,000 worth of real estate Monday for a local woman charged with attacking an adult male with a two-by-four and threatening people at her house with a knife. Police said , 47, was arrested Friday night on felony charges of aggravated assault and criminal threatening with a dangerous […]
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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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Police: Panel clears officer who shot Lovell man
PARIS — A statewide panel has cleared a sheriff’s deputy any wrongdoing in a shooting in Lovell last month, Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant said Monday. Gallant said Monday a panel of former and current police authorities from across the state found Cpl. George Cayer’s action’s justifiable and the department’s policies instructing officers on how to […]
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Carthage man faces charges after he is accused of strangling wife
CARTHAGE — A 73-year-old man is accused of strangling his wife and terrorizing her Friday, according to Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. The woman escaped the residence and fled to Rumford Police Department to make the report, Nichols said in a release. She told police her husband, Robert Carver, of Carthage, “was very intoxicated […]
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FBI: Houlton man threatened to kill EU officials ‘like chickens’
BANGOR — A native of Bulgaria living in Houlton has been charged in U.S. District Court, accused of threatening to kill a member of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union. Dushko Venelinov Vulchev, 38, made his first court appearance Monday in federal court in Portland on one count of threats in […]
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Jay man indicted on multiple charges against teens
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County grand jury indicted a Jay man Tuesday on felony charges of unlawful sexual contact and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, and a misdemeanor charge of criminal restraint. Shawn Burnell, 21, was charged on July 26 after Farmington police investigated an incident that occurred on July 20 on a beach […]