KINGFIELD — Police said a Phillips woman is charged with drunken driving and resisting arrest after failing to stop at a stop sign on Depot Street on Wednesday night. Franklin County Deputy Andrew Morgan arrested Susan A. Sterling, 52, on a misdemeanor charge of operating under the influence and issued her a summons on a […]
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Rumford, Mexico police announce OUI patrols
RUMFORD — Area law enforcement officers will step up patrols to stop drivers from operating under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Rumford and Mexico police will conduct high-visibility enforcement details between now and Sept. 1 as part of the Drive Sober Maine campaign. “We will be aggressively enforcing those laws,” Rumford police Chief Stacy […]
Dixfield man charged with OUI in Carthage rollover
CARTHAGE — Police said a Dixfield man was charged with drunken driving after his car rolled over on Carthage Road/Route 142. Cody J. Berryment, 19, was coming from a party and heading toward Weld when he lost control of the 2007 Honda Civic, Franklin County Sheriff’s Lt. David Rackliffe said Monday. Deputies Sandy Burke and […]
Wilton man accused of OUI in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Police said a Wilton man was charged with drunken driving Friday morning after his car went off Route 17 into a ditch and he drove off. Arthur Hentschel, 51, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence at approximately 9:16 a.m., police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said. Hentschel was taken […]
Driver arrested after New Sharon crash
NEW SHARON — An Athens woman was charged with drunken-driving and leaving the scene of an accident after police found her abandoned Jeep on Kimball Pond Road on Tuesday night. Tina Meng, 45, was arrested at her boyfriend’s home on Kimball Pond Road and booked at the Franklin County jail in Farmington early Wednesday on […]
New Sharon man pleads guilty in OUI case
FARMINGTON — A New Sharon man pleaded guilty to drunken driving Thursday for crashing a truck on Weeks Mills Road in New Sharon in June. Adam King, 20, and a 15-year-old New Sharon boy, a passenger in the vehicle, were injured when King lost control of the truck and it ended up in a ditch […]