OXFORD — Police said a local man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home on Hebron Road early Wednesday morning, hours after his wife reported he had barricaded himself in a bedroom. Oxford Police Chief Jonathan Tibbetts identified the man as 41-year-old Daniel Pulkkinen. A shotgun was recovered from the scene at […]
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Armed standoff ends in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Police surrounded a house on Ridgewood Avenue on Thursday night when a man threatened to shoot himself and went into his garage with a gun. Police converged on the area at about 7:20 p.m. after the man’s wife reported that he was in the garage loading his weapon. After just over an hour, […]
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Standoff ends at New Hampshire motel; armed man found dead
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Authorities say a police standoff with an armed man at a Portsmouth motel has ended, after the man apparently shot himself. A SWAT team and several armored police vehicles surrounded the America’s Best Inn where law enforcement officials were attempting to arrest a Massachusetts suspect Friday night. Police say they were asked […]
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Windsor man shoots, injures himself during 5-hour police standoff
WINDSOR — An overnight standoff with police in Windsor ended early Saturday morning when a 36-year-old man shot himself inside his home. Police were called to the Barton Road home of Wayne Bland around 9 p.m. Friday after his relatives called police to say the man was suicidal and “had taken a number of pills,” […]
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Brunswick woman arrested after all-day standoff with police
BRUNSWICK — A 51-year-old woman who allegedly fired a gun from her Mere Point Road home was arrested early Sunday morning after tactical teams from the Brunswick police and Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office negotiated with her for several hours before using tear gas to draw her out. Tammie Keslake of Brunswick emerged from her home […]
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Police peacefully end standoff in Farmington
FARMINGTON — A domestic-related standoff was diffused peacefully Monday afternoon when police responded to a third-party report of a 23-year-old man threatening suicide with a rifle on Clover Mill Road, police Chief Jack Peck said. Farmington police, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department and members of the Maine State Police Tactical Team responded to the situation […]
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Police fatally shoot knife-wielding man Saturday during standoff in Chester
CHESTER —- Police shot and killed a man in his mid-30s about 6 p.m. Saturday off Route 116 in Chester at the end of an eight-hour standoff, according to the Maine State Police. The names of the dead man and the troopers involved are expected to be released Sunday. The man had held police at […]
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Camden standoff at pharmacy ends with hostage freed, suspect found dead
CAMDEN — An all-night armed standoff at a downtown pharmacy ended with a hostage released unharmed and the suspect found dead from an apparent suicide. The suspect in the hostage taking and standoff was identified by Camden Police Chief Randy Gagne as Robert Beerman, 44, of Camden. Beerman’s body was discovered by members of the […]
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Rumford man arrested following nearly 7-hour standoff
RUMFORD —A Rumford Center man was arrested for threatening several neighbors with a handgun early Tuesday morning following a nearly seven-hour standoff with local police and the Maine State Police tactical Team that shut down Route 2. Rumford police Cpl. Lawrence Winson arrested Chad Bradbury, 36, of 1374 Route 2, Rumford, on three counts of […]
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Autopsy reveals man in Mexico standoff shot by police in neck, chest
MEXICO — The Paris man who died in Mexico following a standoff with police Sunday night was killed by gunshot wounds to the neck and chest, according to a news release by the Attorney General’s Office. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said that the gunshot wounds found on Steven R. Piirainen, 52, during […]