The Criminal Justice Commission on Mitigation of Pandemic Impact has issued a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the overload on the state's court system.
The Criminal Justice Commission on Mitigation of Pandemic Impact has issued a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the overload on the state's court system.
Boy accidentally shoots himself in hand with pistol in Pittston
A two-shot Derringer pistol was in his grandfather s coat pocket, police say, when he attempted to use it and it fired Tuesday.
By Staff ReportKennebec Journal
PITTSTON A 15-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the hand with a pistol early Tuesday morning.
Police said the boy had gone out back of a garage at a residence on State Route 27 in Pittston, wearing a coat that belonged to his grandfather. Inside the coat, according to a news release from the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office, was a two-shot Derringer pistol.
Police said the boy tried to pull the hammer back on the pistol and his thumb slipped off, releasing the hammer and causing the firing pin to strike a .410-gauge shotgun shell and firing the loaded weapon.
Illegal marijuana grow discovered in Vassalboro, nearly 1,000 plants burned
Police say a Winslow man wasn’t licensed to have that many plants on-site, and was allowed to keep three.
Credit: Courtesy Kennebec County Sheriff s Office Author: Gabrielle Mannino (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 3:56 PM EST December 22, 2020 Updated: 3:57 PM EST December 22, 2020
VASSALBORO, Maine The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office says a Winslow man was issued a felony summons for cultivating marijuana after police received reports of an illegal grow site in Vassalboro.
Police say on Dec. 16 at approximately 2 p.m., Deputies responded to the Old Meadow Road in Vassalboro with the Vassalboro Police Chief and a Field Investigator from the State of Maine Office of Marijuana Policy for a complaint of an illegal marijuana grow.
Augusta man charged with robbing, assaulting woman
Joshua Beauparlant, 32, allegedly took a woman s wallet in Augusta and fled to Manchester, where he was arrested.
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AUGUSTA An Augusta man was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly taking a woman’s wallet and assaulting her as they struggled over her purse.
Joshua Beauparlant, 32, was charged by Augusta police with robbery, domestic violence assault and violating a condition of release, following an incident reported around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on South Chestnut Street.
Police said a woman told them Beauparlant said he needed money and later grabbed her purse as she began to walk away and a struggle ensued over the purse. She told police, according to an affidavit filed by Officer Simon Yorks, that she was brought down to the floor by Beauparlant and he ripped the purse away from her, then grabbed her wallet out of the purse. She yelled for someone to call police and Beauparlant ran out of the South Chestnut Street apartm