ORLAND — A 63-year-old Orland man and his dog are dead after the truck the man was driving broke through the ice on Alamoosook Lake Wednesday night. Brian Wardwell was with his dog and was driving on Alamoosook Lake at approximately 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, when his truck broke through the ice. A person on the …
MACHIAS — A Northfield man is in custody and three people are dead following shootings Monday morning in Washington County. Thomas Bonfanti, 63, was arrested around 11:15 a.m. at the American Legion in Machias, said Lt. Troy Gardner of the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit during a news conference Monday. “He has been charged …
ELLSWORTH — State police say they are working with the FBI to investigate an online threat made against a dozen Maine high schools Friday. The threat was received by a Maine business, which forwarded it to police, according to a statement from Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Police did not …
ELLSWORTH — Bail for a man charged with manslaughter in a crash on Cedar Swamp Road in Orland Jan. 28 has been set at $10,000 cash or $35,000 surety. Robert Cunningham, 48, of Orland appeared before Justice Robert Murray in Hancock County Superior Court Wednesday afternoon. Assistant District Attorney Dawn Corbett asked for $15,000 cash …
ORLAND — The Maine State Police said an Orland woman died after she was ejected from a pickup truck that went off the road and struck an embankment on Cedar Swamp Road in Orland Tuesday. Valerie Seavey, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The crash occurred at 4:15 p.m. Cedar Swamp Road …
MACHIAS — A man accused in the shooting death of a woman in Cherryfield is scheduled to be arraigned in Washington County Superior Court Friday afternoon, said Maine Attorney General’s Office spokesman Marc Malon. Sally Shaw, 55, was a grandmother and certified nurse’s assistant from New Gloucester. Her body was found July 19, 2017, along …
BANGOR — A Hancock man pleaded guilty Jan. 21 in federal court in Bangor to possessing with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl, United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced. Police stopped William Smeal, 33, on Feb. 13, 2019, while he was traveling through Ellsworth. Officers seized from …
A Steuben man convicted of aggravated animal cruelty in the shooting death of Franky, a Winter Harbor terrier-pug, was sentenced Wednesday to serve one year in prison. In Hancock County Superior Court, Justice Robert Murray also sentenced Justin Chipman, 24, to a year of probation upon his release. However, the defendant intends to appeal his …
COLUMBIA — Two people are dead following a crash on Route 1 in Washington County Friday, Jan. 3. Darold Ames, 83, of East Machias and a 14-year-old boy whose name was not being released Friday night were both pronounced dead at the scene, according to Washington County Sheriff Barry Curtis. Both were passengers in a …
ELLSWORTH – An Ellsworth man was arrested on Dec. 26 after allegedly holding a gun to his girlfriend’s head and threatening to kill her, according to Ellsworth Police. Chief Glenn Moshier said a woman came into the department around 2 p.m. on Thursday and reported that her boyfriend, 26-year-old Timothy Stanley, had held a gun …
BANGOR — Warren B. Pettegrow, former chief executive officer of Lobster 207, a marketing cooperative owned by members of the Maine Lobstering Union, is one of four individual and two corporate defendants named in a civil racketeering complaint filed Wednesday, Dec. 4, on behalf of the union-owned co-op in the U.S. District Court in Bangor. …
ELLSWORTH — A 19-year-old Eastbrook man enlisted in the military and stationed in South Carolina was escorted back to Maine on Nov. 26 and charged with gross sexual assault (Class A) and unlawful sexual contact (Class D) after an incident with a 14-year-old girl this past summer, according to the Ellsworth Police Department. Dantae M. …
