Folks around the courthouse commonly refer to ours as a “CSI World”, referencing the popular television series and its proclivity for demonstrating how perfectly executed scientific techniques solve crimes. In reality however, scientific techniques are not perfect and “crime labs” rarely execute them to perfection. Some flaws in technique, including instrumentation , are significant, some [...]

Robert Nelson, the suspect in the Anson man’s murder in 2009, pleaded not guilty during the open court hearing last Monday. He stood firm with his plead that he was not involved in the shooting of an old cancer patient three years ago. The suspect, a resident of Norridgewock has been accused of murdering Everett [...]

A man was arrested after assaulting a Deputy who is supposed to take him into custody because of his unwanted presence and too much intoxication. Christopher Bennett, 20 years old, a resident of Waterboro is facing charges after his violent action against the Police Officer that led to minor injuries. He is also facing additional [...]

A Troiano Waste Services truck caused traffic when it crashed on Sebago Lake Road. According to Gorham Police, the truck is on its way to the dumpsite where it will bring the chicken parts when it suddenly stumbled on the road. It happened on Tuesday morning between 4:00 am to 5:00 am. According to Authorities, [...]

Police found a kidnapped convenience store clerk while they are doing their routine traffic stop. The victim was found in his own trunk; tied up. A video showing some policemen stopping a car that contains a kidnap victim in the trunk became very popular. According to the police officer from Louisville, who was present during [...]

Four men who were involved in the Zumba prostitution case pleaded guilty of engaging to prostitutes. Benjamin Bouma from Peoria, AZ, Ryan Sauzier from South Portland, Bradford Siegel from Cumberland and Michael Sherwood from Portland were the first to plead guilty to the crime. The York County Superior Court in Alfred confirmed the information released [...]

Daniel Riekstins, a man from Webster, Texas was arrested after soliciting sex from a woman who pretended to be a 15-year-old girl. A 36-year-old woman posed as an underage girl and added the suspect on Facebook. The two started communicating and have gone to the point of exchanging sexually explicit conversations. On the latter part [...]

A stabbing incident in a gas station on Forest Avenue transpired before 2:00 am on November 12. On Wednesday, the wounded victim walked into a convenience store and asked the clerk to call an ambulance. He was immediately taken to Maine Medical Center. The police confirmed that the victim received 10 stabs at the back. [...]

The Portland Police are still searching for the person who is responsible for robbing Bangor Savings Bank, the largest bank in Maine. The robbing incident happened on Tuesday morning. The Bangor Savings Bank is located at Pine Tree Shopping Mall, Brighton Avenue. According to the police, the suspect entered the bank alone after 9:00 am. [...]

A Karate instructor was charged with sexual assault. Wade Robert Hoover, 34 years old, was arrested after he was found to have sexually assaulted a boy and produced a Pornographic video of it. The victim is a child of a person who is known to the Karate Instructor. The suspect will be facing federal charges [...]

The US nuclear ship at Maine’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was set on fire on May 23. The said ship was in the shipyard for some repairs. In another occasion, a blaze is again started in the same workplace. The damage caused by the fire was almost USD 400 million. The worse thing about the incident [...]

Nicholas Sexton, a suspect for the killing of three individuals is going to be transferred back to Maine from Brockton, Massachusetts. The 31-year-old suspect waived his right for extradition in a Brockton court last Wednesday. This was confirmed by a spokesperson of Maine’s Office of Attorney General. Bangor Police Detectives will be in charged with [...]

Random shooting incidents started in a highway near Detroit. One of the first victims was a person on his way to watch a game in Detroit. It was Saturday afternoon; he was driving when he was hit on the hip. He tried to get to the nearest gasoline station to seek help. Another shooting also [...]

News of people having drug-induced meltdown is filling the front lines days. People high on LCD act strange – some even become excessively violent. The recent killing of a naked freshman at South Alabama by a police officer, however, draw national outrage because of the perceived inappropriate use of deadly force to subdue perpetrators. On [...]

Home invasion is not uncommon in Portland, Maine. As opposed to residential burglary, wherein the burglar robs a home when no one is there, home invasion involves invading and robbing a home when someone is there. This is why there’s an added danger to home invasion: bodily injury. The injury can range from minor to [...]

Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills reprimanded prosecutors of the Kennebunk fitness studio prostitution case because of inaccessibility and disorganization of evidence, Tuesday, in Cumberland County Superior Court. After the arraignment earlier in the week, business partners 29 year-old fitness instructor Alexis Wright, and 57 year-old insurance Mark Strong Sr. appeared in court for the first [...]

DNA test results and interviews from 1980 were presented to the court by the prosecutors in an attempt to convict Jay Mercier of murdering an Anson woman 32 years ago. Rita St. Peter, 20, was brutally beaten and run over by a truck until dead back in July of 1980. Evidences point to Jay Mercier, [...]

An 83-year-old man was charged for hitting an 11-year-old boy in a vehicle crash in Bog Road, Leeds, Monday morning of October 8. A 2005 Dodge Caravan driven by senior citizen Milton Hill of Monmouth was travelling eastbound along Bog Road. The Monday morning had a fair traffic around 9:10 a.m. in that road when [...]

Ex-high school football coach Wesley Littlefield is charged for assault of a student of Messalonskee High School during the team’s football practice last Sept. 19. Tuesday morning, a day following the incident, Capt. Rick Stubbert issued a summons for coach Littlefield. They received a complaint from the victim and his parents. Witnesses were interviewed and [...]

Arline Lawless of Waldoboro, indicted for fatally shooting her boyfriend pleads not criminally responsible by reason of insanity last Thursday in her arraignment hearing in the Lincoln County Superior Court. After declining to enter any plea to the charges in her first court appearance last Aug. 17, the 25 year-old Lawless, who also goes by [...]

A bus carrying students crashed upon collision with a white commercial pickup truck. The school bus, filled with student athletes of Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in Brunswick and was on its way to an athletic event when an accident happened that would probably make it the most memorable trip, not only to the children [...]

On Sweden Road, Maine, a three-story house caught on fire on a Sunday morning leaving the family homeless. The call to Waterford Fire Station was received around one o’clock dawn and almost 60 firefighters from five Western Maine towns came to help as the house was already fully engulfed in monstrous flames. The firefighters arrived [...]

More than a year after Jay S. Mercier, 55, was arrested for murder of a certain Rita St. Peter, 20, the court has scheduled to commence his trial this week at Somerset County Superior Court. This Thursday, the jury shall be selected. On September 28, 2011, Jay Mercier was arrested by the state police for [...]

Three years after Rory Holland shot to death the Greene brothers and was thereby, convicted to double life sentence for two counts of murder, his home, dilapidated at Biddeford City is subject for consideration by the Biddeford City Council, which will release its decision this week. Among the agenda that the Biddeford City Council shall [...]

At five o’clock sundown in Hampton, two motorcycle riders died in a collision along Route 109 East in Acton, on Sunday. Girard Blais, 62, from Hampton died in an instant, according to York County Sheriff’s Department.  James Dibenetto from Danvers died after reports on his physical injuries were non-life threatening. Police reports said neither of [...]

Last August 25, an 87-year old man was driving his Toyota Avalon when he crashed into 200 motorcycle riders in Westmoreland. Robert Lockerby from Walpole was driving with his wife when the incident occurred at around 11:48 in the morning. Lockerby was allegedly in the northbound direction in Route 12 when he suddenly veered into [...]

Baby-sitting is a common practice in any American home. With parents going to the office and older siblings attending school, infants are being left under the care of a third party. But when a child does not come out of it alive, a police investigation is often carried out to find out the real cause [...]

There is a new technology being implemented in schools today particularly in San Antonio, Texas. The Radio Frequency Identification System or RFID is the latest program introduced to two schools in the town namely, John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School. With this new system, students will carry ID badges that contain a [...]

Early (last) Sunday morning, a 20-year old man from Pepperell, Massachusetts died from a vehicular accident when the driver of his ridden sports utility car crashed into a utility pole in the vicinity of Pole Street in Biddeford, Maine. Anthony Ciccone was a passenger of an alleged Ford Explorer being driven by his friend, Christopher [...]

Before things got sour between Shawn Sayer and his girlfriend Michelle (not her real name), the two would take sexually explicit videos and photographs of themselves.  But their 4 year relationship didn’t work out and in 2006, Michelle left Sayer.  So began Sayer’s revenge via cyber stalking. Shawn Sayer, a 41 year old self-employed carpenter [...]