Accused Capitol rioter won’t face charges for suspicious package in Portland
Police say Kyle Fitzsimons of Lebanon left a suspicious package in front of the Portland Museum of Art last month, but the district attorney declined to file charges.
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The Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office will not file criminal charges against a man who police say left a suspicious package outside the Portland Museum of Art last month.
The Portland Police Department had identified him as the person who was captured on security video placing a package outside the museum on Jan. 23. The package did not contain an explosive device, but police cordoned off Congress Square for more than three hours and evacuated nearby businesses during their investigation.
‘What would Patrick want?’
Wilton parents ask for mercy for the driver in South Portland crash that killed their son in 2018.
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Patrick Donaghue on Sept. 16, 2018, while moving into his dorm at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. It is the family’s last known photo of him.
Photo courtesy of the Donaghue family
The stories never came from Patrick Donaghue himself, but his parents heard them anyway.
The time Patrick got caught stealing food from the cafeteria in elementary school so his classmate would have enough to eat at home. The time he protected a middle school classmate from bullying. The time he gave a pair of brand new shoes to a homeless man with none. The time he showed up in a storm to help a friend who totaled his car.
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Patrick Donaghue on Sept. 16, 2018, while moving into his dorm at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. It is the family’s last known photo of him.
Photo courtesy of the Donaghue family
The stories never came from Patrick Donaghue himself, but his parents heard them anyway.
The time Patrick got caught stealing food from the cafeteria in elementary school so his classmate would have enough to eat at home. The time he protected a middle school classmate from bullying. The time he gave a pair of brand new shoes to a homeless man with none. The time he showed up in a storm to help a friend who totaled his car.
December has been a month of hope and concern, with COVID-19 vaccines deployed for the first time to hospitals across Maine but health officials warned that the state continues to battle “a surge on top of a surge.”
Hospitals this week received the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine and began inoculating frontline workers. The first phase of vaccinations focuses on healthcare workers in intensive care units, emergency rooms and COVID-19 wings of hospitals.
This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor.
The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic news organization based in Augusta.