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PublishedMay 19, 2024
Court documents provide deeper look inside Maine’s clandestine cannabis grows
Laborers living out of suitcases, $10,000 electricity bills and elaborate automatic growing systems are among what officials found inside several of the residences, according to recently filed federal documents.
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PublishedMay 19, 2024
China, Cornville properties among 4 targeted for seizure in illegal marijuana cases
For the first time, federal prosecutors say they are seeking the forfeiture of Maine properties used in illegal cannabis growing operations that might be tied to organized, transnational crime organizations.
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PublishedMay 18, 2024
York County Jail administrator will take over as new warden of Maine State Prison
Nathan Thayer has served as administrator at the York County Jail for the last three years and will start in his new role at Maine's largest prison on Monday.
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PublishedMay 17, 2024
Homeless man accused of stealing police vehicles who was in police shootout misses third court hearing
The judge learns that York County Jail can't accommodate the inmate for remote court appearance.
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PublishedMay 17, 2024
One arrested as sheriff’s office busts another illegal marijuana grow in Norridgewock
Yibin Zhao, 55, was arrested at a residence where authorities confiscated more than 200 cannabis plants as authorities continue investigating clandestine growing facilities throughout central Maine.
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PublishedMay 17, 2024
Central Maine arrest log: May 10-17, 2024
Augusta- and Waterville-area arrests for May 10-17, 2024.
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PublishedMay 17, 2024
Augusta councilors narrowly approve budget with 3.7% tax increase
The $86.7 million budget passed by a 4-3 vote, with councilors in opposition objecting to rising taxes, failure to address problems downtown.
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PublishedMay 17, 2024
Police: Vienna man, already under arrest, smashes out cruiser window, assaults warden
Police say Robert J. Locke managed to work his handcuffed hands to his front while sitting in the back of a police cruiser and smash out a window Thursday after they responded to his home on neighbors' complaints that he was shooting a gun, honking his car horn and yelling at them.
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PublishedMay 16, 2024
Maine supreme court upholds manslaughter sentence for woman who abandoned baby at birth
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld the 6-year sentence given to Lee Ann Daigle, who left her infant daughter in a gravel pit after giving birth in 1985.
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PublishedMay 16, 2024
‘We’ll always blame ourselves’: Card family shares its pain over collective failure to prevent Lewiston mass shooting
Members of Robert Card's family broke their public silence Thursday to make emotional pleas for improvements to the Army, law enforcement and mental health systems that they say failed to help them in the months before he committed the state's deadliest mass shooting.
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