LEWISTON — One person was stabbed late Tuesday night and police were investigating at the intersection of Blake and Birch streets. A male stabbing victim was taken to Central Maine Medical Center, said Lt. David St. Pierre of the Lewiston Police Department. He did not know the victim’s condition. Blake and Birch streets were cordoned […]
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Man stabbed in abdomen in Bangor
BANGOR (AP) — Police are investigating a stabbing in Bangor. Officers responded to a Pine Street apartment building at about 5 p.m. Monday where a 32-year-old man was found suffering from a stab wound to the abdomen. WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/18nMF6Q) reports he was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center. Neither the victim’s name nor his condition […]
Lewiston man sentenced to 28 years in stabbing attack
AUBURN — A Lewiston man was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison, with all but 22 suspended, plus four years of probation in the “brutal” stabbing of his former girlfriend. Cleveland Cruthirds was convicted last week of felony elevated aggravated assault in the stabbing of 23-year-old Naomi Swift 21 times in December 2011. Cruthirds, 27, […]
Court sanctions prosecution for missing statements in attempted murder trial
AUBURN — The judge in the attempted murder trial of Cleveland Cruthirds chastised the Lewiston Police Department for losing three witness statements but denied a defense motion to dismiss the case Friday. Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice Robert Clifford said defense lawyers learned Friday morning, the fourth day of the trial, that three statements taken […]
Augusta woman charged with stabbing boyfriend
AUGUSTA (AP) — A 19-year-old Augusta woman has been charged with stabbing her 58-year-old boyfriend during a fight. Police were called to Washington Street just before midnight Wednesday for a report of a domestic dispute. Lt. Christopher Massey says when officers arrived they found a man had been stabbed in the back with a steak […]
Man stabbed in argument over couch
MECHANIC FALLS — A dispute over a couch ended in a stabbing early Saturday, leaving one man in serious condition with knife wounds in his side, abdomen and head, police said. The accused stabber, Bryan Peabody, 18, of 508 Main St., Lewiston, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault and held at the Androscoggin […]
Police search for assailant in Lewiston stabbing
LEWISTON — One man was stabbed and two others were questioned Thursday afternoon following a fight on Knox Street. Police said the victim, 26-year-old Noel Mena, flagged them down at about 4 p.m. at Knox and Birch streets and reported he’d been stabbed. Several officers converged on the area, but clues were in short supply: […]
2 men stabbed in Lubec bar fight
LUBEC (AP) — Police are investigating a double stabbing at a Lubec bar in which one victim almost had his nose cut off. Police said it started with an argument at Phinney’s Bar just before midnight Wednesday. Two men got into a fight and one was stabbed. Police told WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/18Awx60) that a second man […]