A Belgrade man who was arrested this weekend in Madison on a drug possession charge pleaded guilty to the charge Monday during his arraignment in a Skowhegan court.

Scott Bickford, 41, initially was stopped about 8:45 p.m. Sunday by Deputy Logan Roberts, who was running a radar detail on Old Point Avenue in Madison, Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said in a news release Tuesday.

Roberts saw a silver 2004 Chevy 1500 pickup heading north on Old Point Avenue and stopped the truck on Pine Street for excessive exhaust noise. A search of the vehicle revealed a container with a substance that tested positive for fentanyl, Lancaster said.

After consultation with the Somerset County District Attorney’s Office, Bickford was charged with unlawful possession of a schedule W drug, narcotics.

Bickford was arrested and taken to the Somerset County Jail in East Madison.

Bickford pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful possession of a schedule W drug, class D. He was fined $400 and sentenced to 24 hours of incarceration for time served, Lancaster said.

AUGUSTA

Monday at 8:05 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Cony Circle.

9:43 a.m., burglary from a motor vehicle was reported on Crosby Street Place.

10:42 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Hancock Street.

11:01 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Western Avenue.

12:18 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Water Street.

12:49 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

12:56 p.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Memorial Drive and Gage Street.

2:11 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was performed on Stone Street.

5:08 p.m., burglary from a motor vehicle was reported on Crosby Street.

5:24 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Western Avenue.

6:10 p.m., needles were recovered on Civic Center Drive.

6:23 p.m., property was recovered on Cony Street.

6:29 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Water Street.

6:36 p.m., theft was reported on Western Avenue.

6:40 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was performed on Winthrop Street.

8:40 p.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Bangor Street.

11:20 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Drew Street.

Tuesday at 12:16 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on State Street.

5:06 a.m., a 36-year-old Hallowell woman was issued a summons on a charge of operating a vehicle without a license, during a traffic stop on Mount Vernon Avenue and Mill Street.

GARDINER

Monday at 8:15 a.m., harassment was reported on Water Street.

6:02 p.m., a well-being check was requested on Brunswick Avenue.

HALLOWELL

Monday at 4:30 p.m., harassment was reported on Middle Street.

Tuesday at 3:06 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Water Street.

MONMOUTH

Monday at 2:42 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Academy Road.

PITTSTON

Monday at 11:52 a.m., trespassing was reported on South Beech Hill.

3:44 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Jewett Road.

RANDOLPH

Monday at 5:21 p.m., a well-being check was requested on Hillcrest Avenue.

WINTHROP

Sunday at 6:07 p.m., harassment was reported on Green Street.

9:18 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Main Street.

9:35 a.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Morton Street.

ARRESTS

AUGUSTA

Monday at 8:54 p.m., Darbe Anagnost, 34, of Augusta, was arrested on charges of burglary and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer (less than $500), after suspicious activity was reported on Green Street. A 35-year-old Norway man also was issued a summons on a charge of burglary.

HALLOWELL

Monday at 10:52 p.m., Jake O. Piper, 23, of Farmingdale, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence (alcohol), during a traffic stop on Litchfield Road.

WINTHROP

Monday at an unidentified time, Carl D. Glidden, 37, of Winthrop, was arrested on a warrant (failure to appear), on Tappan Farm Road.

IN ANSON, Monday at 10:14 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Oak Street.

IN ATHENS, Monday at 11:05 a.m., a burglar alarm was reported on Floyd French Road.

IN BINGHAM, Tuesday at 8:50 a.m., a burglary was reported on West Street.

IN CANAAN, Monday at 1:45 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Henshaw Road.

IN CLINTON, Monday at 8:30 a.m., a Bangor Road caller reported a fire.

3:30 p.m., police investigated a report of an accident involving injury on Battle Ridge Road.

IN DETROIT, Tuesday at 6:44 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Dogtown Road.

IN FAIRFIELD, Monday at 3:17 p.m., a structure fire was reported on Center Road.

8:58 p.m., harassment was reported on Center Road.

9:12 p.m., police made an arrest during a traffic stop on Island Avenue.

IN FARMINGTON, Monday at 3:03 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Farmington Falls Road.

6:29 p.m., police were called to assist another agency at Franklin Health Commons.

Tuesday at 7:10 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Farmington Falls Road.

IN JACKMAN, Monday at 9:25 a.m., police were called to assist another agency on Forest Street.

IN JAY, Monday at 8:37 a.m., theft or fraud was reported on Devenport Hill Road.

1:43 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street.

Tuesday at 1:12 p.m., a noise complaint was taken on Bridge Street.

IN MADISON, Monday at 12:59 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Hardy Street.

2:17 p.m., police made an arrest on Madison Avenue.

4:41 p.m., police made an arrest after a complaint related to a motor vehicle on Lakewood Road.

6:41 p.m., a report of a domestic disturbance was investigated on Thomas Street.

6:47 p.m., a complaint about trespassing was taken from Thomas Street.

9:59 p.m., threatening was reported on Thomas Street.

10:36 p.m., police made an arrest after a harassment complaint on Thomas Street.

IN NEW SHARON, Monday at 6:22 p.m., a report of a missing person was taken on Lane Road.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Monday at 10:37 a.m., a fire or odor investigation was carried out on Mercer Road.

11:23 a.m., a theft was reported on River Road.

8:03 p.m., police made an arrest in an assist of another agency on Waterville Road.

IN OAKLAND, Monday at 6:51 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Elizabeth Street.

12:42 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Church Street.

1:43 p.m., harassment was reported on Audrey Lane.

11:20 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on High Street.

Tuesday at 1:10 a.m., police investigated a report of suspicious activity at Oakland Self Storage on High Street.

IN PHILLIPS, Tuesday at 10:06 a.m., police were called to assist another agency on Bridge Street.

IN PITTSFIELD, Monday at 10:09 a.m., police were called to assist another agency on Main Street.

12:04 p.m., a theft was reported on Waverly Street.

IN RANGELEY, Monday at 10:17 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Mango Loop Road.

Tuesday at 9:57 a.m., police investigated a report of fire or smoke on Main Street.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Monday at 9:13 a.m., a complaint was investigated on Beech Street.

11:36 p.m., a theft was reported on Dinsmore Street.

IN SMITHFIELD, Monday at 12:17 p.m., a burglary was reported on Quaker Lane.

IN SOLON, Monday at 5:17 p.m., police made an arrest during a traffic stop on South Main Street.

IN WATERVILLE, Monday at 7:07 a.m., a theft was reported on Pleasant Court.

8:49 a.m., shoplifting was reported at the Hannaford supermarket at Elm Plaza.

10:16 a.m., a theft was reported at Colby College on Mayflower Hill Drive.

11:14 a.m., harassment was reported on Oak Street.

11:36 a.m., suspicious activity was reported from the Elm Plaza parking lot.

12:28 p.m., threatening was reported on Elm Street.

1:54 p.m., criminal mischief was investigated at Maurice and Son on College Avenue.

9:38 p.m., police investigated a noise complaint on Kelsey Street.

IN WILTON, Monday at 7:04 a.m., police investigated a report of fire or smoke on Gilbert Street.

10:51 a.m., theft or fraud was reported on Weld Road.

8:37 p.m., threatening was reported on Weld Road.

IN WINSLOW, Monday at 11:14 a.m., a theft was reported on Benton Street.

7:27 p.m., police investigated a report of suspicious activity on Frankwood Drive.

9:24 p.m., police made an arrest following a report of a disturbance on Whipple Street.

11:22 p.m., police investigated a disturbance on Bellevue Street.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Monday, Jennifer Storer, 27, of Monmouth, was arrested on a warrant.

Devin Leonard, 25, of Albany Township, was arrested on three warrants.

Zachary Creps, 26, of South Paris, was arrested on domestic violence assault.

Christopher Pineau, 37, of Chesterville, was arrested on domestic violence assault.

Tuesday, Derek Campbell, 32, of Wilton, was arrested on a probation hold.

IN KENNEBEC COUNTY, Monday at 8:08 p.m., Jessica Bryant, 26, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Monday at 2:57 p.m., Karie L. Laird, 39, of Bangor, was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.

9:10 p.m., Dallas Johnathan Cherry, 25, of Somerset County, was arrested on a probation hold.

11:44 p.m., Jayson Michael Weymouth, 45, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a charge of harassment by phone.

A Waterville man who appealed his status as an armed career offender and won saw his original 15-year prison term cut down to about three years.

Brian Thomas Mulkern, 37, was sentenced to time served at a re-sentencing hearing held Tuesday at U.S. District Court in Bangor.

He had pleaded guilty in August 2015 to being a felon in possession of ammunition, which he stole from a home in Winthrop.

In that break-in, Mulkern surprised a girl who was home alone and who called police before fleeing to a neighbor’s house.

He was caught by Winthrop police as he left the home carrying the stolen goods.

In the federal case, Mulkern had maintained he was classified improperly as an armed career offender, which resulted in the 180-month minimum sentence he received in Jan. 28, 2016.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with him, vacated the sentence, and sent the case back to Justice John A. Woodcock Jr. for re-sentencing.

Woodcock, in a ruling leading up to the new hearing, said he planned to award Mulkern credit for the 17 months he was held in state custody on the Winthrop burglary charge prior to his guilty plea in federal court.

“The 1st Circuit Court decision very much paved the way for the outcome today,” said Jon Haddow, Mulkern’s defense attorney, after the hearing. “It was the key to getting the sentence down to this range.”

He described Mulkern as “relieved and grateful” after Tuesday’s hearing, and added, “I think he had expressed a serious desire to rehabilitate, and he had done some rehabilitation in the federal system.”

Haddow said both Mulkern and Woodcock referenced the original 15-year sentence as “a wake-up call.”

In the appeal, Haddow maintained that Mulkern had only two prior “violent felony” offenses resulting from two burglaries of dwellings that took place in 2001 and 2012, and asked the appeals court “to reject the government’s argument, and hold that the defendant’s (drug) trafficking conviction under Maine law is a non-qualifying predicate offense under the (Armed Career Criminal Act).”

That act allows for longer sentences for felons who commit crimes with firearms if they have been convicted of “violent felony” crimes three or more times.

The government, through Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret D. McGaughey, argued in a filing with the appeal that Mulkern was “the very type of person the AACA was designed to punish: someone who continued to commit drug or violent crimes.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Clark, who serves as spokesman for the office, said, “We’ve said what we’ve got to say in the pleading,” and that there would be no other comment.

Mulkern’s new sentence places him on three years’ supervised release.

Haddow said he and Mulkern both anticipate that Mulkern will be returned to state custody shortly to finish serving a six-year state sentence Mulkern received on April 13, 2016. Mulkern had been convicted in Kennebec County court of a burglary and two thefts, which occurred in August 2014 in Winslow.

That six years was to run concurrent with the federal sentence.

Mulkern has been held most recently in the Somerset County jail.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

A West Bath man who furnished a fatal dose of heroin to a former girlfriend was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison.

Mickey Gilley, 35, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen after pleading guilty on Aug. 1. Gilley was also ordered to undergo three years of supervised release.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Gilley supplied heroin and fentanyl to a former girlfriend with whom he was prohibited from having contact because of bail conditions stemming from a previous domestic violence case. The woman died from using the drugs.

Gilley “failed to call emergency personnel because, as he admitted, he feared being arrested for violating his bail conditions,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release. “The former girlfriend died as a result of using the drugs furnished by the defendant. In imposing the sentence, Chief Judge Torresen noted that the defendant chose his own liberty over the life of his former girlfriend.”

According to an affidavit filed by Chad Carleton, a special agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, Gilley and the former girlfriend used heroin on the night of Sept. 20, 2016. Gilley told Carleton he went to Portland that evening to buy heroin before returning to West Bath to the woman’s apartment.

Carleton said Gilley used heroin by injecting it while his former girlfriend snorted it. Medical personnel later confirmed the victim had ingested heroin and fentanyl. Gilley was charged with distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in death, court records show.

“This case combines two of the biggest challenges facing Maine – the illegal distribution of opiates and domestic violence,” U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank said in a statement. “Heroin and fentanyl are deadly poisons that are killing Mainers in record numbers.”

Frank said the U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to work closely with the Maine Attorney General’s Office to make the investigation of such cases a priority.

AUGUSTA — A West Gardiner man accused of deliberately running his SUV into two people last April pleaded guilty Wednesday to two felony-level charges of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.

Dakota L. Brann, 21, who also has an address in Augusta, was indicted in July on two counts of elevated aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated assault, which say he caused serious injuries to two people with his vehicle, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury.

On Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center, those charges were dismissed and the reckless conduct charges were added.

No explanation was offered in court for why the altercation occurred, and District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said afterward there was no clear information about to why it happened, but it might have involved a former girlfriend.

“The defendant claimed it was an accident,” Maloney said, “but obviously we dispute that.”

Brann’s attorney, Darrick Banda, said he did not know the reason behind it other than he did not think it involved a girlfriend.

Brann was sentenced to an initial 20 months in prison, and the remainder of the five-year term was suspended while he serves two years of probation.

Brann has been in jail since his arrest a day after the incident, which was reported at 6:04 p.m. April 11 on Winter Street in Gardiner.

Assistant District Attorney Tracy DeVol told Justice Michaela Murphy that Brann had been in neighborhood of Theresa and Denison Vinal, and there was an argument. Brann left and returned later, pulling into their driveway.

She said another confrontation occurred with a group of people. “The Vinals told Dakota to leave,” DeVol said. “They pushed him and told him he had to leave.”

She said Brann got into his vehicle, a 2005 Cadillac Escalade, backed up, then drove forward, striking the couple.

Both Vinals were treated at hospitals.

Banda told the judge he was satisfied the state could prove the charges based on testimony of disinterested witnesses.

Devol told Murphy that one of the victims was in the court with her attorney but did not wish to address the judge.

Shortly after the hearing, Theresa Vinal, who was one of the two people injured, said her husband was doing better than she was.

“I’m still going to physical therapy and need special glasses,” she said. “It’s a long road.”

Her attorney, Daniel Stevens, said a civil lawsuit is being contemplated.

Maloney said the victims wanted to be sure that there would be a felony conviction and a prison sentence for Brann.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

AUGUSTA

Tuesday at 7:57 a.m., a well-being check was performed on State Street.

8:28 a.m., needles were recovered on Edison Drive.

8:37 a.m., a well-being check was performed on State Street.

9:38 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Jefferson Street.

9:44 a.m., a mental health and well-being check was performed on Middle Street.

10:01 a.m., a 50-year-old Augusta woman was issued a summons on a charge of keeping a dangerous dog, after a complaint was made on Cony Street.

11:07 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Civic Center Drive.

11:22 a.m., a 25-year-old Lewiston woman was issued a summons on a charge of theft by receiving stolen property, after a car fire was reported on Medical Center Parkway.

12:53 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Ward Road.

12:58 p.m., indecency was reported on Winthrop Street.

2:18 p.m., fraud was reported on Iris Court.

2:27 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Howard Street.

3:02 p.m., theft was reported on Western Avenue.

3:23 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Glen Street.

3:48 p.m., property was recovered on Bangor Street.

4:28 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on Cony Street.

4:31 p.m., criminal threatening was reported on Medical Center Parkway.

5:22 p.m., needles were recovered on Water Street.

5:47 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Cony Street.

6 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Water Street.

6:29 p.m., theft was reported on Western Avenue.

6:46 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Washington Street.

7:29 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Worcester Street.

7:53 p.m., harassment was reported on Old Belgrade Road.

7:58 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Northern Avenue.

9:09 p.m., property was recovered on Cony Street.

11 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Bridge Street.

Midnight, suspicious activity was reported on Cony Street.

Wednesday at 12:20 a.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Cony and Haskell streets.

12:34 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Cony Street.

3:29 a.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Western Avenue.

4:04 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Leighton Road.

GARDINER

Tuesday at 10:44 p.m., a 38-year-old Gardiner man was issued a summons on a charge of disorderly conduct, after a noise complaint was made on Mechanic Street.

Wednesday at 6:58 a.m., a suspicious person was reported on School Street.

HALLOWELL

Tuesday at 2:08 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Second Street.

5:49 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Water and Greenville streets.

Wednesday at 1:35 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

MONMOUTH

Tuesday at 4:37 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Old Lewiston Road.

Wednesday at 6:40 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Launch Drive.

PITTSTON

Tuesday at 11:40 a.m., a suspicious vehicle was reported on East Pittston Road.

ARREST

AUGUSTA

Tuesday at 2:05 p.m., Mark Anthony Gooding, 52, of Augusta, was arrested on a charge of operating while license was suspended or revoked, during a traffic stop on Mount Vernon Avenue.

ROCKLAND — A 32-year-old Rockland man was arrested and charged with stabbing a man and a woman he lived with at a Knox Street apartment.

George Gilmore was being held without bail at the Knox County Jail on charges of Class A elevated aggravated assault and Class B aggravated assault, Rockland Deputy Police Chief Chris Young said.

He is likely to make an initial appearance in Rockland Unified Court on Friday.

Rockland police received a call at noon of a stabbing at an apartment in the Knox Apartments on Knox Street.

A 33-year-old man received serious stab wounds to his neck and back. He was taken to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport and was then flown by a LifeFlight helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland.

A female, 28, had mostly superficial wounds, including being stabbed in her forearm. Police have not released the names of the victims.

Officers responded and received a description of the suspect, who was then found inside a bathroom at Dunkin’ Donuts at the intersection of Main and North Main streets. Witnesses said the man had blood on him.

Police evacuated the employees and customers in the business before entering the bathroom and handcuffing Gilmore. Clothing was found inside the bathroom.

He was then taken to Pen Bay Medical Center and then to the jail in Rockland.

No motive has been revealed, but Young said that Gilmore and the two victims were among four adults who lived in the apartment where the attack occurred. Gilmore moved to Rockland from Bridgeport, Connecticut five months ago.

The Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and Rockport police were on the scene, as was a Belfast police canine unit brought in to try to locate the knife used in the attack. The weapon has yet to be found.

A Fairfield man has been sentenced for possessing firearms and ammunition illegally, and he also was fined $5,000.

Steven Lemieux, 54, was sentenced to time served of over six months for the charges, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. He received the sentence in U.S. District Court in Bangor from Judge John A. Woodcock Jr.

Lemieux was convicted June 15 after a two-day jury trial, but he has been in federal custody since May 14.

According to the news release, in December 2016, Lemieux possessed seven firearms and 784 rounds of ammunition. He was prohibited from possessing those items after a 2006 federal felony conviction for providing false information to a federal firearm licensee.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the Fairfield Police Department.

IN ATHENS, Wednesday at 12:58 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Cayford Lane.

IN BENTON, Tuesday at 7:51 p.m., threatening was reported on Hanscom Road.

IN CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Tuesday at 5:03 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Carrabassett Drive.

IN CAMDEN, Wednesday at 11:40 a.m., threatening was reported on Ham Hill Road.

IN CANAAN, Tuesday at 11:41 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Tobey Road.

5:55 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Hinckley Road.

IN CLINTON, Tuesday at 3:20 p.m., a theft was reported at Clinton Variety & Pizza on Main Street.

IN FAIRFIELD, Tuesday at 2:39 p.m., a scam complaint was taken on Summit Street.

10:30 p.m., theft was reported on Summit Street.

Wednesday at 2:37 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Green Road.

IN FARMINGTON, Tuesday at 9:15 a.m., juvenile offenses were reported on Seamon Road.

4:47 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Main Street.

IN HARTLAND, Tuesday at 11:57 a.m., theft was reported on Cooley Road.

1:46 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Morrill Pond Road.

IN JACKMAN, Tuesday at 2:01 p.m., threatening was reported on Forest Street.

IN JAY, Tuesday at 2:12 p.m., a noise was reported on Bridge Street.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Tuesday at 1:55 p.m., a scam complaint was taken on Maple Street.

IN PITTSFIELD, Tuesday at 1:36 p.m., larceny was reported on Somerset Plaza.

Wednesday at 9:54 a.m., mischief was reported on Madawaska Avenue.

IN OAKLAND, Tuesday at 2:26 a.m., a traffic hazard was reported on East Pond Road.

IN RANGELEY, Tuesday at 9:57 a.m., a smoke and fire investigation was conducted on Main Street.

IN RANGELEY PLANTATION, Tuesday at 11:30 a.m., a fire with power lines down and arcing was reported on Bemis Road.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Tuesday at 11:36 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Bennett Avenue.

5:47 p.m., theft was reported on Water Street.

6:47 p.m., vandalism was reported on Water Street.

7:03 p.m., vandalism was reported on Madison Avenue.

7:28 p.m., trespassing was reported on Madison Avenue.

7:50 p.m., vandalism was reported on Madison Avenue.

Wednesday at 6:53 a.m., trespassing was reported on Madison Avenue.

9:10 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Back Road.

9:54 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Water Street.

11:46 a.m., a past burglary was reported on East River Road.

IN VASSALBORO, Tuesday at 2:12 p.m., the theft of a dirt bike was reported on Webber Pond Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Tuesday at 10:08 a.m., threatening was reported at Inland Hospital. A man was arrested and charged with domestic violence terrorizing, according to the report.

12:07 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported near Dunkin’ Donuts on College Avenue.

12:18 p.m., a caller from Oxford Street reported someone was missing.

3 p.m., criminal trespassing was reported at Cumberland Farms on College Avenue.

3:39 p.m., a theft was reported on Gray Avenue.

4:42 p.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Main Street.

4:44 p.m., a theft was reported at the Chez Paree on Water Street.

7:03 p.m., after an accident causing damage was reported on Grove Street near Uncle Dean’s Good Groceries, a man was arrested and charged with operating under the influence and operating without a license, according to the report.

7:11 p.m., a theft was reported on Center Place.

7:52 p.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Gold Street.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Tuesday, Daniel Keirstead, 29, of Sandy River Plantation, was arrested on a warrant.

IN OAKLAND, Tuesday at 6:48 a.m., Brian Charette, 39, of Oakland, was arrested on charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, criminal mischief and violating condition of release.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Tuesday at 7:11 p.m., Richard Foss, 63, of Canaan, was arrested on charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Wednesday at 10:25 a.m., Victor Dudley, 48, of Winslow, was arrested on a charge of assault.

12:03 p.m., Kathleen Marie Adams, 46, of Pittsfield, was arrested on warrants.

IN WATERVILLE, Tuesday at 6 p.m., Michael Clemons, 39, of Norridgewock, was arrested on a charge of domestic violence terrorizing.

10:24 p.m., Natalie Johansmeier, 35, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant.

7:40 p.m., Ryan Dyer, 32, of Waterville, was arrested on charges of operating under the influence and operating without a license.

Wednesday at 4:20 a.m., Michael Bakeman, 26, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of violating conditions of release.

PARIS — Oxford County Sheriff Wayne J. Gallant resigned Wednesday amid allegations that he sexually harassed members of his department.

The sheriff submitted a one-page letter of resignation to the Oxford County Commission and the office of Gov. Paul LePage around 4:30 p.m.

Gallant’s attorney, Jim Martemucci of Portland, said that after “lots of consideration, lots of discussion with his family and consulting with me, he’s decided it’s best for all concerned that he resign.”

Chief Deputy Hart Daley has been named acting sheriff until LePage appoints an interim sheriff, said Oxford County Commissioner David Duguay.

At the end of his shift Wednesday, Gallant ceremonially signed off “10-7” – out of service – by police radio and thanked Daley for his support over the years.

On Nov. 21, Gallant admitted to a television station that he had sent a sexually explicit cellphone photo of himself in uniform in his office to a woman whom he has refused to identify.

That prompted him to step down that day from his position as head of the Maine Sheriffs’ Association, saying in a written statement that “I bring discredit to myself, to my uniform, my badge and the Maine Sheriffs Association. The appropriate thing for me to do is not remain in a leadership position with the association and to step down.”

The next day, the sheriff acknowledged to Oxford County commissioners that he had sent the photo, but described it as an “adult thing that happened two years ago.”

At the time, the commission already had hired an outside investigator to look into two misconduct complaints against Gallant received by the county.

In one complaint, Gallant is alleged to have sent multiple sexually explicit photographs of himself to a male deputy’s girlfriend and asked that Gallant, the deputy and the woman have sex. The deputy rebuffed the offer and Gallant is accused of threatening his job, said Ray Cote, who serves as the business agent for Teamsters Local 340, a union that represents the sworn officers in the sheriff’s office.

In the second, Gallant is alleged to have typed a message on a cellphone indicating he wanted to perform oral sex on a male employee, and then showed the person what he had typed, Cote said.

Gallant has steadfastly denied – through his attorney – that he sexually harassed any employee of the sheriff’s office or threatened anyone with termination in connection with solicitation for sex.

COMMISSION SOUGHT REMOVAL OF GALLANT

First elected in 2006, Gallant, who is in his late 60s, was in his third four-year term as Oxford County sheriff and had served as president of the sheriffs’ association since January.

Before he was elected sheriff, Gallant served as chief of the Wilton Police Department for a year and before that worked for the Rumford Police Department.

Gallant has “been honored to be the sheriff, to serve Oxford County, and to have worked with law enforcement in other communities” during his career, Martemucci said.

Last week, Cote said he brought the accusations of misconduct to the commission in early November and then “became so frustrated with the lack of action and lack of cooperation on this issue that I went to the media” the week of Nov. 20.

“I was compelled to go public with what I knew, which is what I did,” he said.

On Tuesday, after a three-week investigation, commissioners voted unanimously to forward a complaint to the governor asking him to use his constitutional power to remove Gallant from office.

That process would have included a public hearing at which the accusers and Gallant each would have been given an opportunity to speak. Then the governor would have decided whether proof existed that the sheriff had not faithfully or efficiently performed his duties, which would be grounds for removal.

According to the commissioners’ complaint, their investigation concluded that Gallant, “while in uniform and in his office, sent a photograph to a female employee of another law enforcement agency in which his genitals were exposed.”

Gallant also sent “multiple text messages to a subordinate officer and his female companion containing other indecent photographs of himself, the solicitation of sex acts, and the solicitation of nude pictures from both of them,” the complaint filed with the governor’s office said.

Commissioners also said Gallant sent “lewd text messages to subordinate employees that contained photographs of himself, and requested or suggested images of the employees in indecent poses.”

“The sheriff tolerated, engaged in and fostered inappropriate sexual conduct within the department and workplace in violation of law and county policy on sexual harassment, all of which it was the sworn duty of the sheriff to uphold and enforce,” the complaint said.

The complaint asked LePage to “remove the sheriff from office and appoint another sheriff in that office for the remainder of his term,” which expires in 2018.

PROCESS TO APPOINT INTERIM SHERIFF

According to Duguay, the county commissioner, the process to appoint an interim sheriff to fulfill the term is complex, and begins with Oxford County Democrats scheduling a caucus to select at least one nominee, “but I believe the governor insists on two or three names to be submitted.”

All nominees must come from the Democratic Party because Gallant won the sheriff’s seat as a Democratic candidate and there is a mandate to maintain the consistency of that party in office, matching voters’ will.

Duguay said it’s his understanding that “the governor doesn’t necessarily need to accept any of the names that the Oxford County Democrats submit, he can put anyone in that slot. But it has to be a Democrat.”

John Rogers, director of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, said Wednesday that he has not received any complaint or report on Gallant that would prompt the decertification process by his agency. The academy is the entity that issues and manages certification for law enforcement officers in Maine, and may decertify officers based on very limited criteria, including the commission of a felony crime.

Other reasons for decertification include not completing mandatory training, lying on an academy form to obtain certification, and having an inappropriate sexual relationship with the victim of a domestic violence incident in which the officer is involved, according to Maine law. The academy also could consider decertification if an officer engages in “conduct that violates the standards established by the board” and which “involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable and prudent certificate holder would observe in the same or similar situation.”

While aware of Tuesday’s action by the Oxford County Commission seeking Gallant’s removal, Rogers said that unless or until the actions rise to the level of a criminal matter “we really don’t get involved in terms of certification.”

If the academy were to receive a complaint that falls within its jurisdiction, a complaint review committee would convene an investigation that may include a public hearing on the facts before taking any action, which could include a warning, censure, suspension or decertification.

WATERVILLE — A Norridgewock man is free on bail after he was arrested on an allegation that he threatened his wife over the telephone.

Michael Clemons, 39, was arrested Tuesday evening at his home after he reportedly made threats to his wife, who works locally, according to Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey.

Officers spoke to the man’s wife and were able to find probable cause that Clemons had made the threats, Massey said.

Massey said he was unaware of any past incidents of domestic violence involving Clemons, and that officers have not had serious run-ins with him before.

He said Clemons did not harm his wife physically, instead just making spoken threats. The police chief would not divulge details of the threats, but he said Waterville police take domestic violence cases seriously.

Clemons was arrested on a charge of domestic violence terrorizing, with officers from the Maine State Police and Somerset County Sheriff’s Office assisting Waterville police by transferring him.

Clemons was released on $1,000 unsecured bail and is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 2, Massey said. As part of his bail conditions, Massey said Clemons is prohibited from contacting his wife.

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A lawsuit filed against the city of Biddeford by a woman who was wounded in a domestic shooting that killed her son and his girlfriend can move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy rejected a motion by the city to dismiss the suit filed in July by Susan Johnson, who was wounded by her landlord, James Pak on Dec. 29, 2012. That night Pak, now 79, also shot and killed her son, Derrick Thompson, 19, and his girlfriend, Alivia Welch, 18.

The shooting grew out of a dispute involving parking and snow removal at an apartment on Sokokis Road in Biddeford. Police initially responded, but left after roughly 40 minutes when they concluded that the parking dispute was a civil matter.

Susan Johnson wipes a tear from her cheek as James Pak receives two life sentences in the 2012 murders of her son, Derrick Thompson, and his girlfriend, Alivia Welch, on Superior Court in Alfred on Feb. 11, 2016. Johnson, who was wounded in the attack, is suing the city of Biddeford, claiming police didn’t do enough to prevent the shooting. Whitney Hayward/Staff Photographer

Pak opened fire moments after police left the scene. He then called 911 to admit to the crime. Pak is currently serving a life sentence at Maine State Prison.

At issue in the lawsuit is whether the police did enough to prevent the shooting during their first visit to the home, whether officers were adequately trained, and whether their level of training could lead to injury or death. Johnson is seeking unspecified monetary damages.

The city contended in its motion to dismiss that Johnson’s deadline to file the lawsuit, set by state law at two years from when the underlying facts could have been discovered, had expired.

But Johnson’s lawsuit is based in part on investigative information gathered by police that could only be released by the Attorney General’s Office after Pak’s case was fully prosecuted, in line with a state law that prohibits the dissemination of information that could interfere with the prosecution of a crime, a police investigation, or that could be prejudicial if released publicly.

Following Pak’s guilty plea and sentencing in 2016, the information that was previously confidential was turned over to Johnson. It contained a recording of the conversation between Pak and Biddeford police before the shooting.

“James Pak admitted to threatening to shoot Thompson, Johnson and/or Welch,” according to the lawsuit. “Officer Dexter and/or Wolterbeek responded by telling Pak that he can’t make those types of threats. James Pak’s emotional state continued to heighten while speaking with Officer Dexter and/or Wolterbeek. James Pak told the Officer that he had a gun and if the Officer didn’t do something about the parking ‘there is going to be a bloody mess’ and that ‘they would see it in the news.’ ”

According to the lawsuit, neither officer searched Pak’s apartment for weapons, or arrested him for making threats.

Michael Barrucci

Maine State Police and Lewiston police arrested an Otisfield man and charged him with stabbing a South Paris man who was getting a haircut in a Lewiston barber shop Wednesday night.

The stabbing victim was identified as 35-year-old Rashad Robinson, Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a statement.

Robinson was getting a haircut at Major Cuts on Chestnut Street when 23-year-old Michael Barrucci, who is dating Robinson’s estranged wife, came into the shop and stabbed Robinson in the stomach and chest, police said. Robinson’s wife was in the barber shop at the time.

Robinson staggered out of the barber shop and collapsed on the sidewalk. He was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston where he underwent emergency surgery Wednesday night.

Barrucci was arrested and charged with elevated aggravated assault. His bail was set at $500,000 cash.

Dennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:

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Bangor police are on the lookout for a “bad Santa” who handed out candy canes to children in a local department store.

In a roundup of quirky police news posted Thursday morning on the department’s Facebook page, Lt. Tim Cotton wrote the “most bizarre story of the week” involved a complaint about a Santa who handed a candy cane to a young girl as she walked through a store with her mother. The mother thought nothing of the interaction at first, Cotton wrote, but became perplexed and disturbed when she ran into Santa again and he told her “good girls get candy, naughty girls get jewelry.”

“The woman immediately went to management to report that their Santa was a bad one. A veritable Satan-like St. Nick,” Cotton wrote.

Cotton said the store had not hired the Santa and could not find him in the store because he was able to “slip through ladies apparel and small appliances as quickly as prune-filled cookies go through flying reindeer.”

Cotton said police have no leads about the man’s identity or his intentions, but would like to speak with him.

AUBURN — A Minot man who went on a rampage four years ago, setting fire to his family’s home and that of his estranged wife is hoping for a new trial, claiming his constitutional rights were violated in the judicial process that landed him in prison for more than a decade.

Michael Callahan, 49, who later moved to Auburn, had also rammed his estranged wife’s minivan with his truck and tried to run down a law enforcement officer.

After pleading guilty to some of the charges stemming from the May 2013 events, a judge sentenced Callahan to three sentences of: 20 years with all but eight years suspended, plus four years of probation; 10 years, all suspended, plus four years of probation; and five years, all suspended, plus four years of probation.

The sentences were all consecutive to each other and resulted in the defendant being on probation for 12 years after getting out of prison.

The first sentence was on an arson charge for setting fire to Callahan’s ex-wife’s mobile home in Mechanic Falls. The next arson sentence was for burning down his family’s home in Minot on the same day. The final sentence was on an additional arson charge.

On six other felonies, including aggravated assault and reckless conduct, he was sentenced to five-year terms for each, all concurrent with the first arson charge. An attempted murder charge was dismissed by prosecutors.

In his January 2016 amended petition for post-conviction review, Callahan claimed ineffective assistance of counsel. Specifically, he claimed his trial attorney, James Howaniec, failed to adequately advise him about available legal defenses and the risks and benefits of going to trial.

Callahan wrote in his petition that Howaniec hadn’t fully explored efforts to suppress evidence that might be used against him at trial.

Callahan also claimed in his petition that his “substantially compromised” mental state rendered him unable to freely decide on a plea agreement.

Callahan testified Wednesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court that the sentence he ended up getting at his felony plea hearing was different from what he had expected. He also said he had wanted to take his case to trial, but had been “pressured” by Howaniec into agreeing to a plea.

Howaniec, who testified Wednesday at Callahan’s post-conviction review hearing, offered a differing account of his interaction with his former client.

Howaniec said he had proposed taking Callahan’s case to trial where he had planned to mount a defense that focused on Callahan’s compromised mental state due to his mental and physical illnesses, side effects from medications and the stress of a pending divorce, among other factors.

Howaniec, who has practiced criminal defense for more than 30 years, said Wednesday he had consulted with psychologists and psychiatrists in an effort to build a case at trial for possible “abnormal condition of mind” and “insanity” defenses.

He and Callahan had “many, many” discussions about that, Howaniec said, including possible outcomes using those defenses. An MRI had shown lesions on the frontal lobe of Callahan’s brain, the part of the brain that controls cognitive function.

Few of the facts in the case were in dispute, he said, and they weren’t favorable to the defense.

Howaniec said a plea offer from prosecutors had been “unreasonable” because it had been “just too high.”

“I was enthusiastic about taking this case to trial,” Howaniec said Wednesday. But Callahan’s mother and father had urged him to take a plea offer, Howaniec said.

Callahan said Wednesday his mother had told him she wanted to see him again while she was alive.

Howaniec said, “in one sense,” he had been “disappointed” that Callahan hadn’t wanted to go to trial.

Callahan, who uses a wheelchair because of complications from multiple sclerosis, said Wednesday that Howaniec had told him, “This is what you’re going to get” for a plea deal and that the “judge is going to smoke you” if the case goes to trial.

Howaniec said Wednesday that a judge had told him and Callahan during a pretrial settlement conference that he would have sentenced Callahan to 18 years in prison, based on the facts of the case.

Callahan said Wednesday he was “devastated” following his 2014 sentencing and hadn’t been satisfied with Howaniec’s representation. He said he’d thought he would receive six years of probation, not the 12 years that he was given.

District Attorney Andrew Robinson pointed out Wednesday that Callahan had kept Howaniec on as his attorney for more than a year following that plea.

Callahan said he had been led to believe by Donald Hornblower, Howaniec’s co-counsel in the case, that they would likely be going to trial but that potential defenses were never discussed with him.

Wednesday’s hearing is expected to be continued in January.

AUGUSTA

Wednesday at 8:18 a.m., theft was reported on Community Drive.

9:28 a.m., property was recovered on South Grove Street.

9:32 a.m., theft was reported on High Street.

10:01 a.m., violating conditions of release was reported on York Street.

10:41 a.m., counterfeiting was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

11:46 a.m., a well-being check was performed on West River Road.

12:31 p.m., a 54-year-old Augusta man was issued a summons on a charge of operating a vehicle without a license, after a traffic stop was performed on Western Avenue.

1:11 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Water Street.

3:06 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on Water Street.

3:19 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Northern Avenue.

3:24 p.m., harassment was reported on Middle Street.

3:39 p.m., a well-being check was performed on State and Green streets.

4:38 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Summer Street.

5:20 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Riverside Drive.

5:56 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Windy Street.

5:56 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

6:09 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Laurel Street.

7:05 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

8:56 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on White Street.

8:57 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

11:17 p.m., a disturbance was reported on New England Road.

Thursday at 6:35 a.m., a mental health and well-being check was performed on Noyes Court.

GARDINER

Wednesday at 8:54 a.m., a well-being check was performed at an unidentified address.

HALLOWELL

Thursday at 5:09 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

RANDOLPH

Wednesday at 1:39 a.m., harassment was reported on Kinderhook Street.

ARRESTS

CHELSEA

Wednesday at 10:38 a.m., Jeremy Benedict Greenan, 33, of Augusta, was arrested on a charge of failure to appear.

GARDINER

Wednesday at 11:04 a.m., Andrew Jon Glynn, 28, of Farmingdale was arrested on a warrant, on Church Street.

State and local police talked down a 54-year-old woman who was found Thursday morning sitting on the railing of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge with a loaded shotgun, state police said.

Motorists first reported about 10:30 a.m. that the woman walked across the bridge from the Prospect side and perched on the railing on the Verona Island side, according to police.

Traffic was shut down for roughly 20 minutes while officers asked her to put the gun down. She complied, and was taken into protective custody about 11:15 a.m.

She has not been charged, and was transported to a Bangor hospital for evaluation. Her name was not released.

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said Thursday it has charged three people, including a New York City man, following an investigation of the sale of heroin and crack-cocaine throughout Kennebec County.

Late Wednesday afternoon, MDEA agents and Augusta police arrested Sarah Fuschwanz, 33, of Vassalboro, on two counts of felony aggravated trafficking of crack and heroin, and two counts of violating the conditions of her release.

Police stopped her car as she was leaving her home. In the car were two other people. Police also found in the vehicle a variety of suspected drugs, including about 80 grams of crack-cocaine, 10 grams of heroin, and 10 grams of powdered cocaine, along with Suboxone, a prescription used to treat opiate addiction.

In addition to the suspected drugs, police also found $3,250 in cash, believed to be the proceeds of illegal drug sales.

Arrested alongside Fuschwanz was Andre Fields, 51, of the Bronx, New York. Agents charged Fields with two counts of felony aggravated trafficking in heroin and crack. The charges for both people were elevated because of the amount of narcotics seized, police said.

Also charged in the traffic stop was another person in the vehicle with them, Tania Murphy, 33, of Hallowell, who was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant for violating the conditions of her release.

BANGOR – A jury has convicted a second man in a shooting that left one dead and another wounded in Bangor.

Jurors on Thursday found 29-year-old Robert Hansley, of New York, guilty of murder and elevated aggravated assault in the shooting on Nov. 27, 2015.

Police say 38-year-old Robert Kennedy was killed and another man was wounded. Law enforcement officials say the shots were fired to settle a drug debt.

A judge convicted another man, Thomas Ferguson, of elevated aggravated assault in June after finding that he was the accomplice to the shootings.

The defense claimed Hansley was simply with the wrong person at the wrong time and that it was Ferguson who shot and killed Kennedy. Hansley faces 25 years to life in prison.