IN AUGUSTA, Monday at 7:21 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Fairbanks Street.

7:25 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Riverside Drive.

7:38 a.m., theft was reported on Bangor Street.

9:17 a.m., theft was reported on Medical Center Parkway.

9:18 a.m., theft was reported on Gage Street.

9:47 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Burns Road.

10:25 a.m., there was a traffic accident on West River Road and Route 3.

11:09 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Buena Vista Road.

12:02 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Water Street.

12:56 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Civic Center Drive.

1:33 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Lynn Road.

2:16 p.m., there was a traffic accident on South Belfast Avenue and Cony Street.

2:40 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Crossing Way.

2:42 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Memorial Drive and Gage Street.

3:40 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Western Avenue and Whitten Road.

3:43 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Market Square.

3:47 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

4:04 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Northern Avenue.

4:39 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Crossing Way.

4:51 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Hospital Street.

5:15 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Cony Street and Noyes Street Place.

10:21 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Winthrop and Pleasant streets.

10:29 p.m., there was a traffic accident on North Belfast Avenue.

Tuesday at 2:22 a.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Whitten Road.

3:40 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

4:09 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

4:21 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Civic Center Drive.

6:42 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Jefferson Street.

IN FARMINGDALE, Monday at 3:18 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Bowman Street.

IN FAYETTE, Tuesday at 5:56 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Main Street.

IN GARDINER, Monday at 10:23 a.m., a protection order violation was reported on West Hill Road.

1:19 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on Main Avenue.

Tuesday at 12:39 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Mechanic Street.

IN HALLOWELL, Monday at 11:40 p.m., criminal threatening was reported on Hillcrest Street.

IN MANCHESTER, Monday at 6:52 p.m., there was a traffic accident on U.S. Route 202.

IN WEST GARDINER, Monday at 7:19 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Hallowell-Litchfield Road.

IN WINTHROP, Monday at 6:41 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Route 133.

ARRESTS

IN AUGUSTA, Monday at 9:55 p.m., Gene Burgess, 42, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a warrant after suspicious activity was reported on High Ridge Drive.

10:20 p.m., Bradley R. Atkins, 26, of Augusta, was arrested on a warrant after a disturbance was reported on Washington Street.

10:20 p.m., Dylan L. Cook, 24, of Hallowell, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct (loud, unreasonable noise) after a disturbance was reported on Washington Street.

IN CHESTERVILLE, Tuesday at 5:46 a.m., fallen power lines were reported on Stinchfield Hill Road.

IN CLINTON, Monday at 4:30 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Battle Ridge Road.

9:56 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Long Avenue.

IN FARMINGTON, Monday at 7:53 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Wilton Road.

IN HARTLAND, Monday at 9:51 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Crosby Street.

IN JAY, Monday at 10:35 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Forest Circle.

IN MADISON, Monday at 1:16 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Foss Road.

9:53 p.m., threatening via Facebook was reported on Golf Course Road.

IN OAKLAND, Monday at 3:03 p.m., an assault was reported on Sawtelle Road.

4:46 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

6:14 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on East Side Trail.

IN PHILLIPS, Tuesday at 6:16 a.m., an assault was reported on Dodge Road.

IN PITTSFIELD, Monday at 3 p.m., a structure fire was reported on Webb Road.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Monday at 12:15 p.m., trespassing was reported on Madison Avenue.

3:34 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on McClellan Street.

4:29 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Cross Street.

7:33 p.m., theft was reported on Commerce Drive.

Tuesday at 12:21 a.m., theft was reported on Madison Avenue.

7:39 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Norridgewock Road.

9:45 a.m., threatening was reported on Fairgrounds Market Place.

IN STRONG, Monday at 6:40 a.m., a chimney fire was reported on Depot Street.

11:54 p.m., juvenile offenses were reported on McGrath Road.

Tuesday at 1:43 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Temple Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Monday at 8:31 a.m., a report of harassing phone calls was taken on Main Street.

1:11 p.m., an assault was reported on Elm Plaza.

1:33 p.m., shoplifting was reported on College Avenue.

1:41 p.m., an assault was reported on Elm Street.

2:22 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

5:29 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Elm Plaza.

10:11 p.m., a noise complaint was taken on Kelsey Street.

Tuesday at 12:10 a.m., burglary was reported at West River and Abenaki roads.

12:37 a.m., an assault was reported on Pleasant Street.

IN WINSLOW, Tuesday at 12:25 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Nowell Road.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Monday at 3:17 a.m., Nicholas Shurtleff, 25, of Strong, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

3:17 a.m., Jeffrey Garland, 42, of Avon, was arrested on a warrant.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Tuesday at 8:28 a.m., Julian Hernandez, 35, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a warrant.

9:52 a.m., Michael LeBlanc, 29, of Sidney, was arrested on a charge of assault.

9:57 a.m., Anthony Ellsworth Salisbury, 24, of Solon, was arrested on a warrant.

IN WATERVILLE, Monday at 9:26 a.m., Corry Kibbe, 33, of Waterville, was arrested on charges of failure to comply with sex offender registry and on a probation hold.

Tuesday at 12:10 a.m., a 15-year-old was arrested on charges of refusing to submit to arrest or detention, refusing to stop, and burglary.

12:10 a.m., a 16-year old was arrested on charges of refusing to submit to arrest or detention, refusing to stop, and burglary.

12:37 a.m., Johnna Lynn Poirier, 57, of Waterville, was arrested on charges of domestic violence assault and violating conditions of release.

A Biddeford man who “savagely attacked” a woman in Sabattus early Tuesday morning was arrested following a standoff with police at a Saco hotel, police said Tuesday.

Jeremy Norris

Sabattus Police Chief Gary E. Baillargeon in a statement identified the suspect as 45-year-old Jeremy Norris of Biddeford.

Norris has been charged with elevated aggravated assault, domestic violence criminal threatening and domestic violence assault.

He was held without bail Tuesday night at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.

Norris and the victim were in his vehicle on Middle Road in Sabattus around 1:20 a.m. when he “savagely attacked” his 51-year-old female companion, Baillargeon said.

Norris punched her in the side of the head with a closed fist and stabbed her twice in the neck and shoulder, according to Baillargeon.

The woman jumped out of the vehicle as it traveled at low speed and ran to a nearby home to seek help. Norris fled the scene.

Sabattus police investigated and later notified Saco police that Norris was likely staying at the Ramada Inn in Saco.

Saco police identified Norris’ car at the hotel and stopped him as he was trying to leave the hotel parking lot around 9:30 a.m.

“Norris would not get out of his vehicle and a police standoff ensued,” Baillargeon said.

Saco police eventually convinced Norris to surrender around 10:55 a.m.

He was taken into custody, with no injuries reported.

Before being transported to the Androscoggin County Jail, Norris was charged by Saco police with creating a police standoff.

“I want to personally thank the Saco Police Department for their assistance in this investigation and getting a dangerous individual off the streets,” Baillargeon said in his statement.

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

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Two Biddeford women were arrested Tuesday in connection with what authorities called a large scale drug trafficking operation.

Sarah Berthiaume Photo courtesy York County Sheriff’s Office

The women are charged with distributing large quantities of crack cocaine and heroin throughout the greater Biddeford area.

The women ran the drug operation from an apartment on Wentworth Street, Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a statement.

Agents from Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s York District Task Force and Biddeford police raided the apartment early Tuesday morning and arrested Sarah Berthiaume, 36, and Patricia Fancuilli, 44, both of 43 Wentworth St., on drug trafficking charges.

A third person in the apartment, Matthew Nadeau, 34, of Biddeford, was also taken into police custody on an outstanding federal warrant issued by the U.S. Marshals Violent Crime Task Force.

Several undercover drug officers purchased crack cocaine and heroin from the apartment over a period of several months, McCausland said.

Patricia Fancuilli Photo courtesy York County Sheriff’s Office

Berthiaume was charged with trafficking in connection with the undercover purchases. Fancuilli was charged with aggravated trafficking after officers seized 27 grams of crack cocaine and 15 grams of heroin – with an approximate street value of about $6,400 – from the apartment.

During the raid, officers found cutting agents and grinders used to cut and mix illegal drugs and just over $700 in drug proceeds.

Fancuilli was being held at the York County Jail on $15,000 cash bail while Berthiaume’s bail was set at $5,000 cash.

McCausland said Tuesday’s drug raid was the second in six months at the Wentworth Street address. More arrests could be made as the investigation continues.

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

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The Millinocket Regional Hospital was placed on lockdown Tuesday night after receiving two victims in its emergency room who had been involved in a shooting incident.

WCSH-TV quoted Lisa Arsenault, the hospital’s vice president of human resources, as saying the lockdown would remain in effect until at least Wednesday morning.

Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, confirmed that there was a shooting incident in Millinocket and said that state police troopers and detectives had responded to assist Millinocket police.

No other details were available late Tuesday.

IN ANSON, Tuesday at 11:02 a.m., a scam was reported on Horseback Road.

IN ATHENS, Wednesday at 7:21 a.m., debris was reported on the roadway on Fox Hill Road.

IN BINGHAM, Tuesday at 6:24 p.m., harassment was reported on Main Street.

IN CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Tuesday at 2:05 p.m., an assault was reported at the top of the Skyline Lift.

IN CHESTERVILLE, Tuesday at 5:46 a.m., a fire with a tree and lines down was reported on Stinchfield Hill Road.

IN BELGRADE, Tuesday at 6:01 p.m., an accident involving a car and a deer was reported on Augusta Road.

8:19 p.m., a vehicle was reported off the road on routes 8 and 11.

8:54 p.m., a second crash was reported near a first crash on routes 8 and 11.

9:11 p.m., a third crash was reported in the same spot on routes 8 and 11.

IN FAIRFIELD, Tuesday at 5:13 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Kelley Street.

6:58 p.m., harassment was reported on Newhall Street.

IN FARMINGTON, Tuesday at 7:23 p.m., a caller from Fairbanks Road requested that a person be removed from the premises.

IN JACKMAN, Tuesday at 7:11 p.m., a fire with wires down was reported on Main Street.

Wednesday at 8:56 a.m., harassment was reported on Forest Street.

IN JAY, Tuesday at 7:39 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Main Street.

7:55 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Main Street.

8 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Main Street.

IN MADISON, Tuesday at 12:08 p.m., threatening was reported on Main Street.

IN NEW SHARON, Tuesday at 9:01 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Whittier Road.

11:39 p.m., harassment was reported on Mile Hill Road.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Tuesday at 12:33 p.m., trespassing was reported on Sandy River Road.

IN OAKLAND, Tuesday at 10:27 a.m., criminal trespassing was reported on High Street.

1:51 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on North Gage Road.

IN PALMYRA, Tuesday at 3:40 p.m., threatening was reported on Gray Road.

8:17 p.m., harassment was reported on Oxbow Road.

IN PHILLIPS, Tuesday at 6:16 a.m., an assault was reported on Dodge Road.

IN PITTSFIELD, Wednesday at 9:04 a.m., a case involving forgery, larceny or fraud was reported on Canaan Road.

IN SALEM TOWNSHIP, Wednesday at 7:40 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Salem Road.

IN SIDNEY, Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., a person from Pam Cor Drive filed a late report regarding harassment.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Tuesday at 7:39 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Norridgewock Avenue.

10:38 a.m., trespassing was reported on North Avenue.

6:25 p.m., a theft was reported on Madison Avenue.

10:35 p.m., trespassing was reported on Madison Avenue.

Wednesday at 7:10 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Pine Street.

7:51 a.m., debris was reported in the roadway on Madison Avenue.

8:38 a.m., a fire and smoke investigation was conducted on North Avenue.

8:42 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Waterville Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Tuesday at 8:02 a.m., a burglary was reported on Water Street.

8:04 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Kelsey Street.

9:29 a.m., harassment was reported on Louise Avenue.

9:30 a.m., a theft was reported at Day’s Jewelers on Main Street.

12:31 p.m., a shoplifter was reported at the Marden’s Surplus & Salvage store on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

1:37 p.m., a person went to the Police Department to report sex offenses.

4:44 p.m., an assault was reported on College Avenue.

4:55 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Water Street.

4:55 p.m., an assault was reported at Walmart on Waterville Commons Drive.

9:33 p.m., noise was reported on Kelsey Street.

10:24 p.m., a caller from Mae Terrace reported a person was missing.

Wednesday at 1:02 a.m., a theft was reported at The Big Apple store on Elm Street.

IN WILTON, Tuesday at 6:21 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Route 156.

IN WINSLOW, Tuesday at 7:39 a.m., an assault was reported on Bellevue Street.

11:31 a.m., a man was arrested on a warrant on Benton Avenue and charged with possession of marijuana.

ARRESTS

IN FAIRFIELD, Tuesday at 10:18 p.m., Brandon J. Knox, 38, of Fairfield, was arrested on a warrant.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Tuesday at 12:15 p.m., Eddie Ray Sheppard, 45, of Pemaquid, was arrested on a warrant.

1:31 p.m., Gene Lee Burgess, 42, of Skowhegan, was arrested and charged with failure to appear.

1:50 p.m., Charles R. Bellows, 36, of Oakland, was arrested on two warrants.

Wednesday at 4:57 a.m., Gradyn Matthew Dyer, 20, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant.

9:06 a.m., Megan Nichole Burns, 19, of St. Albans, was arrested and charged with violating condition of release and operating vehicle without a license.

IN WATERVILLE, Wednesday at 1:33 a.m., Melissa Breznyak, 26, of Waterville, was arrested and charged with violating conditions of release and theft.

IN WINSLOW, Tuesday at 11:31 a.m., Gradyn Matthew Dyer, 20, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant and charged with possession of marijuana.

SUMMONS

IN FAIRFIELD, Wednesday at 12:04 a.m., James Timothy Jasud, Jr., 43, of Dixfield, was summoned and charged with criminal operating after suspension and possession of suspended or fictitious license.

IN AUGUSTA, Tuesday at 7:49 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Arsenal Street.

9:41 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Stone Street.

10:42 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Bangor Street.

11:50 a.m., shoplifting was reported on Stephen King Drive.

12 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Western Avenue.

1:04 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Sunset Avenue.

3:16 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Stephen King Drive.

3:18 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Cony Street.

3:44 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

3:46 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Stephen King Drive.

3:59 p.m., a past burglary was reported on North Belfast Avenue.

4:06 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Western Avenue.

4:44 p.m., a hit-and-run accident was reported on Western Avenue.

4:49 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Western Avenue.

4:50 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Memorial Circle and State Street.

5:30 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Stephen King Drive.

6:16 p.m., harassment was reported on Glenridge Drive.

7:29 p.m., fraud was reported on Lamson Road.

IN BELGRADE, Tuesday at 6:01 p.m., a vehicle struck a deer on Augusta Road.

10:05 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Route 8.

IN FARMINGDALE, Tuesday at 7:17 p.m., harassment was reported on Litchfield Road.

8:24 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Maple Street.

IN GARDINER, Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Water Street.

8:59 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Route 24.

9:02 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Bridge Street.

Wednesday at 4:29 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Brunswick Avenue.

IN HALLOWELL, Tuesday at 8:08 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Winthrop Street and Balsam Drive.

10:25 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Winthrop and Spring streets.

8:09 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Water Street.

IN LITCHFIELD, Tuesday at 10:49 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Route 197.

IN MANCHESTER, Tuesday at 9:41 p.m., two suspicious vehicles were reported on Western Avenue.

IN MONMOUTH, Tuesday at 2:28 p.m., a past burglary was reported on Grants Point Road.

3:19 p.m., assault was reported on Academy Road.

IN MOUNT VERNON, Tuesday at 10:18 p.m., there was a traffic accident on Castle Island Road.

IN READFIELD, Tuesday at 10:14 a.m., there was a traffic accident on Old Kents Hill Road.

IN SIDNEY, Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., harassment was reported on Pam Cor Drive.

ARRESTS

IN AUGUSTA, Tuesday at 5:52 p.m., James L. Plourde, 34, of Winthrop, was arrested on a charge of violating condition of release after a traffic stop on Winthrop and State streets.

Waterville police have arrested a Winslow woman and her boyfriend who they believe arranged for her two dangerous pit bulls to be stashed out of state in October, just as Maine’s highest court upheld a lower court decision to have the dogs euthanized.

Danielle Jones, 28, and Brandon Ross, 33, of 12 Lucille Ave., Winslow, were arrested at 8:30 a.m. today and charged with refusing or neglecting to comply with a dangerous dog court order, a Class D misdemeanor, Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey said. The couple was arrested as they arrived for work at The Muddy Paw, the business they own on Bay Street in Winslow, he said.

Jones’ pit bulls, Bentley and Kole, killed a dog and seriously injured a woman last year on Lucille Avenue in Winslow.

Massey said police followed a trail of text messages and phone numbers to determine Jones went to New Jersey after she took the dogs for a walk Oct. 24 outside the Humane Society Waterville Area on Webb Road in Waterville, just as the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld an earlier, lower court decision ordering the dogs euthanized.

Jones told shelter officials at the time that the dogs slipped their leashes and ran off into the woods, but police did not buy her story.

They have not yet been able to locate the pit bulls, but continue to search, according to Massey.

Contacted by phone at her business Wednesday afternoon, Jones referred questions to her attorney, Darrick Banda.

“Please don’t call here again,” she said.

Banda, whose office is based in Augusta, said in a phone interview that he had not yet had a chance to read the police affidavit in the case, but his first reaction is that the charge against Jones and Ross is probably one of the most outrageous things he has seen in his years of practicing law. Banda said he is confident the case against Jones will be either dismissed or she will be acquitted.

“I’m not exaggerating to say that this decision to charge is probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen in over 15 years of practice,” he said.

He said Jones did not have legal custody of the pit bulls when they disappeared — the humane society did — and Jones had no legal responsibility to comply with the euthanasia order.

“She had no power over that,” Banda said.

He said Augusta attorney Scott Hess is representing Ross in the case. Hess was not in his office around 2:20 p.m. when a reporter called, but a message asking for comment was left with a woman who answered the phone there.

Waterville police Detective Kyle McDonald arrested Jones and Ross,with help from Waterville and Winslow police officers, Massey said. McDonald has been working the case since the dogs disappeared and on Tuesday obtained arrest warrants for Jones and Ross, he said.

The couple were taken to the Waterville Police Department and released on $2,000 cash bail. They are scheduled to appear Feb. 26 in Kennebec County Superior Court, Massey said.

“They both have conditions as part of their bail, as part of the arrest warrants, not to own or possess any new dogs,” Massey said. “They can keep any dogs they currently have; however, that does not apply to their business. She will continue to be able to work their business, which is The Muddy Paw.”

Massey said McDonald and other officers spent a lot of time investigating Jones’ movements, both locally and out of state, after the pit bulls disappeared. That required detectives to contact people both within and outside of Maine, and the officers were persistent, working through tedious details and connecting all the dots, according to Massey.

“It was a very labor intensive investigation that included going through numerous telephone logs for cell phone and texts,” he said.

Police worked closely with the Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office over the last several weeks on the case, which actually started more than a year ago.

On Aug. 30, 2016, Sharron Carey was walking her Boston terrier, Fergie Rose, down Lucille Avenue near her home, when Jones’ pit bulls, Bentley and Kole, broke free from their yard at 12 Lucille Ave. The pit bulls, a term used to encompass a variety of bull terriers but that is not a specific breed, attacked Carey and her dog. Fergie Rose died later that day and Carey was seriously injured.

After the incident, Jones was charged with two counts of keeping dangerous dogs. The district court found her guilty and ordered the dogs euthanized. She appealed to the higher court and on Oct. 24 this year that court upheld the lower court decision.

Massey said the court decision was rendered around 11 a.m. that day. Jones showed up around noon at the Humane Society Waterville Area where the dogs had been ordered to be housed last year by the court and took them for a walk.

Twenty minutes later, she returned to the shelter and said they had slipped their leashes.

Massey said it was unusual that she was allowed to walk the dogs, albeit in an enclosed area, for the entire year they were housed there. On Oct. 24, she wanted to walk the dogs by herself, he said.

Former Shelter director Lisa Smith said after the dogs disappeared that Jones had typically walked the dogs with Ross, but she was alone that day.

Massey said this morning that Jones went out of state to the New Jersey area Oct. 24 and returned the next day. That is when detectives tried to talk to her, but she declined and referred questions to her attorney, he said.

He said police are not sure where the dogs are, but they speculate she took the dogs to the New Jersey area. He said police looked at cell phone numbers called and text messages sent and received, and then researched addresses of people whose numbers they found and spoke with them.

“That provided a lot of information for us,” he said.

He said McDonald and other officers did great work investigating the case, and the district attorney’s office was of tremendous help as well.

Police continue to investigate, and McDonald is following up on information to try to track down the pit bulls, according to Massey.

This story will be updated.

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AUGUSTA — The prosecution and defense will meet again next month to decide whether there will be a second trial for a Lincoln County deputy accused of sexually assaulting three girls.

A status conference was held Wednesday, Dec. 20 in Kennebec County Superior in the case of 47-year-old Kenneth L. Hatch but there was nothing addressed on the record after that meeting, said Assistant Attorney General John Risler. The two sides met with a judge for a half hour.

Another conference on whether to retry him is scheduled for Jan. 12.

The jury in the first trial deadlocked Nov. 20 on 20 counts and acquitted Hatch on two other counts.

The Whitefield resident was charged with 22 felonies — 11 counts of sexual abuse of a minor, three counts of unlawful sexual contact, and eight counts of aggravated furnishing of marijuana. He was accused of sexually assaulting three girls and providing them marijuana and alcohol in exchange for sex.

Hatch was found not guilty on one count of sexual abuse of a minor and one count of aggravated furnishing of marijuana.

Risler had no other comment on the status of the case.

A telephone message was left Wednesday afternoon with Hatch’s attorney Richard Elliott but there was no immediate response.

Hatch has been on unpaid leave from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office since he was charged in June 2016.

A man and woman from Connecticut were arrested late Tuesday after police stopped their vehicle on the Maine Turnpike in Wells and found large amounts of crack cocaine and the powerful opioid fentanyl.

Maine State Police Trooper Matt Williams pulled over the vehicle on Interstate 95 around 9 p.m. for several traffic violations.

The driver, Abijah Williams, 30, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was in violation of a protective order by being with his female passenger, Mayra Miro, 32, also of Bridgeport.

On suspicion that there might be drugs in the vehicle, Trooper Williams radioed for assistance and Trooper Adam Schmidt and his K9 responded.

A search of the vehicle uncovered 56 grams of crack cocaine and 400 bags of pre-packaged fentanyl, totaling 45 grams.

Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, has overtaken heroin as Maine’s deadliest drug. A report from the Maine Attorney General’s office released in September found that 61 percent of the 185 people who died from drug overdose in the first six months of 2017 were linked to fentanyl.

Both Williams and Miro were arrested and taken to York County Jail in Alfred. They each have been charged with two counts of Class A aggravated trafficking of schedule drugs.

Miro’s bail was set at $25,000. Abijah Williams was denied bail.

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Maine State Police released few details Wednesday about an incident at a house in Millinocket that sent two people to the hospital and then led to a brief lockdown at the hospital itself soon after.

Lt. Troy Gardner said during a press conference in Bangor that someone, or possibly several people, entered a home on Massachusetts Avenue late Tuesday and assaulted an adult male and an adult female.

Both were taken to Millinocket Regional Hospital by ambulance. The male was unresponsive, Gardner said. He declined to name either of the victims.

Bangor-area TV stations reported Tuesday evening that the Millinocket hospital was on partial lockdown to control access to the emergency room, where the two patients were being treated. The hospital reported that they were shooting victims.

Gardner would not confirm that the people were shot and would not discuss why the hospital was put on lockdown. He did say that police have no reason to believe that there might be a specific threat to anyone else in the area.

The two victims were later transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Their condition was not known, but Gardner called their injuries “significant and possibly life-threatening.”

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The State Fire Marshal’s Office has determined that the home where a man’s body was discovered Wednesday was intentionally set on fire.

One man’s body was found inside the two-story home at 72A Shapleigh Road in Lebanon, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Authorities said the man, whose name is not being released, was 58-years-old and lived alone in a second-story apartment. He rented the unit.

“It was evident the home was set on fire,” McCausland said Wednesday evening. “The State Fire Marshal’s Office has made the determination that it was arson.”

It is still not clear to investigators whether the victim was dead before the fire started or whether he set the fire. McCausland said more details concerning the circumstances surrounding the man’s death should be known by Thursday.

“We are still looking into the role the victim may have had in the fire,” McCausland said.

McCausland said the State Police Major Crimes Unit along with the State Fire Marshal’s Office will continue to investigate.

A police canine was brought to the fire scene to sniff for accelerants. The man’s body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office.

The fire was reported around noon.

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

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The York County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday it used bullet fragments to solve a shooting that happened more than a year ago at a home in Waterboro.

Deputies arrested 20-year-old Zachary Jordan of Sanford on Tuesday and charged him with aggravated reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, a Class B offense.

Sheriff William L. King Jr. in a news release said Jordan became a suspect in a shooting that took place on Nov. 6, 2016.

The victims in that case reported that someone had fired a gun at their home. Investigators located two bullets, one on the garage and one in the bedroom of a 20-year-old boy who lived there. King said the shooting may have been instigated by a dispute that the 20-year-old was having with Jordan over a woman.

A bullet fragment from the house and a bullet from Jordan’s 9 mm Ruger were analyzed at the Maine State Police Crime lab. Investigators learned recently that the fragment matched the bullet from Jordan’s weapon.

“On December 19, 2017, Deputy Kevin Collins (a Waterboro contract deputy) re-interviewed Jordan and obtained a full confession,” King said in his statement.

Jordan is scheduled to appear March 9 in Alfred Superior Court.

The attorney for a man charged with illegally re-entering the United States presented police video recordings in federal court Wednesday that he says show a state trooper’s decision to stop and detain a van filled with Spanish-speaking men on Interstate 295 in Portland was a case of racial profiling and an unlawful detention.

Maine State Trooper Robert Burke III said in U.S. District Court that he pulled over the van carrying about a dozen immigrants on Sept. 9 because it had a cracked windshield and the front passenger was not wearing a seat belt.

But defense attorney Robert Andrews presented video clips from Burke’s dashboard camera that he said showed Burke was more interested in the occupants’ immigration status than in the seat belts or cracked windshield.

Wednesday’s hearing focused on defense motions to suppress evidence and dismiss the case, so the merits of the case were not argued. However, Andrews wrote in an Oct. 23 filing that “the real reason the van was stopped was racial profiling by Trooper Burke.”

Warning: This video contains graphic language

The court record includes a two-hour police video of the stop, although only some clips were played in court during the hearing. The video mostly captures conversations between Burke and Trooper Jay Cooley, in which they can be heard ridiculing the Spanish-speaking passengers and referring to them as “disgusting” and “sketchy.”

“This is the (expletive) ICE motha load right here,” Burke tells Cooley when he arrives as backup. “Fourteen of ’em. Not one of them speaks English. Drivers – No driver’s licenses. ICE is gonna be coming out here with their (expletive) SWAT team on this one. I just need you to watch them. They’re all (expletive) sketchy as hell.”

“ICE” is the acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Federal Deportation Officer Elliot Arsenault, left, and Maine State Trooper Robert Burke III leave U.S. District Court in Portland, where motions were heard Wednesday in an immigration case. Staff photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Chapman, the prosecutor in the case, said after the hearing that he could not discuss the case or answer questions about the state troopers’ conduct. But he defended Burke’s actions in a Nov. 9 court filing as a routine investigation that did not breach any protocols.

Chapman said Burke had reasonable grounds to suspect that the defendant, Mario Ernesto Garcia-Zavala, was in the country illegally.

“As the trooper was diligently pursuing matters related to that stop and arrest, including determining whether any of the passengers were licensed drivers, he developed a reasonable suspicion that Garcia-Zavala was an undocumented alien,” Chapman said. “That suspicion was developed well within the appropriate time frame of the initial stop.”

Chapman said that suspicion was based on Garcia-Zavala’s Honduran identification and his inability to speak English.

“Garcia-Zavala possessed no green card, driver’s license or other indicia of lawful presence in the country. He was one of several apparent undocumented aliens in the white van,” Chapman said. “Under these circumstances, it was reasonable for Trooper Burke to suspect, as he did, that Garcia-Zavala was an undocumented alien. The trooper was thus permitted to extend the detention for a reasonable time in order to confirm or dispel that suspicion.”

PREVIOUS ARREST AND DEPORTATION

Whether non-citizens have the same constitutional rights as U.S. citizens is a focus of ongoing legal debate. Courts have ruled that all people in this country, including those here illegally, have many of the same constitutional rights, but they also have held that immigrants facing deportation proceedings do not have all the same rights to due process as citizens have.

In this case, Andrews maintains that no one can be stopped and questioned without a reasonable suspicion.

Garcia-Zavala is 22 years old and a citizen of Honduras. He was first arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas in March 2014 for being in the United States without permission or legal status. He was deported that April, according to court records.

It is not clear how long he had been back in the United States before the traffic stop in Portland on Sept. 9. The men in the van lived in South Portland at the time and were co-workers at an unidentified industrial site, Andrews said.

Court records say Garcia-Zavala admitted to the state trooper who pulled the van over that he was in the country illegally and presented identification issued by the Honduran consulate. It is a federal felony to re-enter the U.S. without permission after having been deported.

Garcia-Zavala has since pleaded not guilty. He likely faces deportation regardless of the outcome of the criminal trial, but is fighting the charge to avoid having a felony record.

Except for his 2014 arrest and deportation, Garcia-Zavala has no criminal record, his attorney said.

Warning: This video includes graphic language

The video now entered into the court record shows Burke and Cooley making fun of the men after the traffic stop. At one point, the troopers try to count in Spanish.

At another point, Burke referred to an informal competition between himself and another trooper about who could arrest the most people that month. Burke explained in court Wednesday that the competition was for total arrests, not deportations.

“There’s no way Flanagan’s gonna beat me this month. No. Way,” Burke says in the video. He then went on to talk about ICE immigration enforcement. “When they show up – there’s no paperwork. It’s like they’re (expletive) kidnapping people. Have you ever seen it?”

When questioned by a reporter about the stop in September, a Maine State Police spokesman initially told the Portland Press Herald that immigration officials were called to help overcome the communication barrier.

“It was a 15-passenger vehicle. Burke reported that (the) driver did not have a driver’s license. Most of the occupants could not produce identification. Most in the back were not wearing seat belts. And no one spoke English. Because of the communication barrier, we sought out the help of a local ICE (agent),” Steve McCausland said. “Typically, that’s a way of getting a quicker response rather than a translator.”

JUSTIFICATION FOR CALLING ICE AGENTS

It took the ICE agents 30 minutes or more to respond in this case. McCausland acknowledged that the officers could have called on available translators, but chose not to.

However, McCausland also said at the time that the ICE agents were called because the failure of the men to provide identification raised the issue of immigration status.

“If there are questions of immigration, we will obviously call the agency who oversees that,” he said. “If there was a fire, we’d obviously call the fire department. If it’s about the woods, we’d call the Maine Warden Service. … Laws had been broken, and the trooper needed to know who he was dealing with.”

Warning: This video contains graphic language

In the video, Burke seems focused more on immigration status than on finding a translator. Upon his return to the cruiser after first speaking with the driver and passengers in the van, Burke calls ICE Deportation Officer Elliot Arsenault.

“Elliot, you’re not gonna (expletive) believe this,” he said. “I got a van load of (expletive) I don’t even know what of about 13 that nobody speaks English. Nobody has IDs. And they’re all not wearing seat belts, so that’s why I stopped them. You might want to come out. This is just gonna be – they’re all – you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell ya.”

Burke tells Arsenault: “I’m in the same spot we were in last time, just so you know, OK?”

Asked on the stand whether he makes such calls to ICE on a regular basis, Burke said no but that he had two or three time previously.

On Sept. 9, Burke was sitting near the intersection of Veranda Street and Washington Avenue when he saw the van pass. Burke said he stopped the van as it got on I-295 because it had a broken windshield and the front passenger wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Nobody had a valid U.S. ID, but a few of the men produced identification cards from Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. The exact number of passengers wasn’t clear because the court records include different numbers.

Burke would eventually arrest the driver, Rudolfo Ramirez, for driving without a license. That decision was made after ICE informed Burke that Ramirez was already undergoing an immigration removal proceeding.

Arsenault said one man – Garcia-Zavala – had been deported and had apparently re-entered the country illegally. Two others did not have any immigration history, he said, adding, “So that tells me they’re in the country illegally.”

It was not clear how many of the other men faced immigration enforcement actions, although at least some of them were detained.

During the stop, a passerby who is an attorney and an immigration attorney and heard about the incident tried to communicate with the van’s passengers. In the video, the troopers repeatedly warn the two women against getting involved. One of the officers said on the video that he came close to arresting a woman who stopped to speak with the men.

MOTION TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE

Andrews, the defense attorney, is arguing that Burke violated the Fourth Amendment rights of his client as well as the other passengers by detaining them after the traffic stop and asking for their identification. He has asked the court to suppress evidence of his client’s identity.

“At most, Trooper Burke had the authority to search Mr. Ramirez when he was arrested for operating without a license,” Andrews said in a Oct. 23 court filing. “It was totally irrelevant that the passengers spoke only Spanish, had identification issued by other countries, and did not have active licenses. The real reason the van was stopped was racial profiling by Trooper Burke.”

Burke, however, testified that he had two reasons for asking for everyone’s identification. First, he planned to cite each person for not wearing a seat belt. And second, he wanted to find out if there was anyone licensed to drive the van, so it wouldn’t have to be towed.

Judge George Singal is expected to issue a ruling after both sides file additional briefs within the next month.

Andrews tried to make the case in court Wednesday that Burke deliberately slowed down the investigation so ICE could arrive on the scene. The entire traffic stop took about two hours.

Burke maintained in court that the delay was justified.

“I would say that I wasn’t moving as fast as I could have with some things, but I had to wait for a tow truck anyway,” Burke said in court.

Andrews played one portion of the dashboard camera video 39 minutes into the traffic stop, when Burke decides to write a ticket.

The full video suggests Burke had other reasons for moving slowly.

Minutes before he decides to write a ticket, Burke told Arsenault, the ICE officer, that he would hold them “for as long as you want.” Arsenault, who was in Massachusetts and did not arrive on the scene, said it would take about 20 to 30 minutes for someone to get there.

After writing the ticket, Burke takes it to the van for one of the occupants to sign. Then he says to the men in the van, “It’s going to take me a half-hour, because I have to write everyone a ticket who doesn’t have a seat belt on.”

Upon returning to the cruiser, he tells Cooley,”they bought that hook, line and sinker.”

Staff reporter Matt Byrne contributed to this story.

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IN AUGUSTA, Wednesday at 8:47 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Fairbanks Street.

11:21 a.m., harassment was reported on Hillcrest Street.

11:58 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Western Avenue.

12:17 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Civic Center Drive.

12:23 p.m., theft was reported on Hospital Street.

12:25 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Water Street.

12:28 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was performed on Green Street.

1:14 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was performed on Noyes Court.

1:31 p.m., theft was reported on Eastern Avenue.

2:47 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Eastern Avenue.

4:14 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on Bridge Street.

6:22 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Water and Winthrop streets.

6:37 p.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

7:04 p.m., a traffic hazard was reported on Water Street.

8:35 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Winter Street.

9:40 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Glenridge Drive.

10:42 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Laurel Street.

11:05 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Winter Street.

Thursday at 1:13 a.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Civic Center Drive.

IN BELGRADE, Wednesday at 8:07 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Augusta Road.

IN LITCHFIELD, Wednesday at 2:22 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Richmond Road.

IN GARDINER, Wednesday at 9:33 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Beech Street.

10:04 a.m., an overdose was reported on Brunswick Avenue.

4:59 p.m., an argument was reported on Middle Street.

IN HALLOWELL, Wednesday at 7:06 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Academy Street.

10:29 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Summer Street.

IN READFIELD, Wednesday at 1:16 a.m., a fight was reported on Millard Harrison Drive.

9:30 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on South Road.

IN WINTHROP, Wednesday at 6:22 p.m., a well-being check was performed on Memorial Drive.

A retired Maine state trooper has been arrested and charged with dealing drugs, including heroin and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.

Jeffrey Linscott, 51, of Buxton, was arrested late Wednesday night after state drug agents said they intercepted him delivering fentanyl to a customer in the parking lot of the Hannaford grocery store in Gorham. The MDEA was aware that the sale was expected to take place and had agents on hand, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Jeffrey Linscott Cumberland County Jail photo

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said they seized from Linscott several grams of what they believe to be fentanyl, as well as packaging materials, scales and $1,000 of suspected drug proceeds. Linscott was charged with aggravated trafficking in fentanyl, trafficking in fentanyl and cocaine and possession of fentanyl.

Linscott, who was a state trooper for 22 years and retired in November 2010, has been under investigation for about two months along with others suspected of dealing heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in Cumberland County, the MDEA said. The agency said agents made several undercover purchases of drugs from Linscott.

Fetanyl, an illegally manufactured drug is a powerful opioid and authorities in Maine believe it is reponsible for more than half of the 376 drug overdose deaths in the state last year, a sharp increase from the year before. It is often mixed with heroin, creating a much more powerful drug that is more likely to cause overdoses.

Lincscott was taken to the Cumberland County Jail after his arrest. Bail was set at $50,000 and he is expected to make his initial court appearance Friday.

He was being held Thursday in a single-occupant “dry cell” at the jail, said Capt. Steve Butts of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. That cell is for people who are suspected of having contraband hidden in their bodies, Butts said.

McCausland said more arrests in connection with the case are expected.

He said Linscott began his career with the state police in 1988 patrolling the Maine Turnpike and was assigned to the barracks in Skowhegan.

He was an agent with the MDEA for three months in 1995 and then promoted to detective and assigned to the homicide unit. He was in that unit for 13 years except for a year in which he was recalled into the military and sent to the Mideast.

McCausland said he doesn’t know what branch of the military Linscott was in and didn’t have information on how he was recalled into the service, although he assumed he had been in the reserves.

In 2008, he asked to be reassigned as a trooper, McCausland said, and was assigned to the Alfred barracks in York County, where he was stationed when he retired.

McCausland said he wasn’t aware of any disciplinary issues with Linscott during his career with the state police.

Linscott was able to make a payment to the state in 2010 to allow his time in the military to be counted toward his state employment and that permitted him to retire early with 25 years of service, McCausland said.

IN ANSON, Wednesday at 12:59 p.m., a vehicle burglary was reported on Hall Street.

3:16 p.m., harassment was reported on Spear Hill Road.

IN CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Wednesday at 1:45 p.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Carrabassett Drive.

4:16 p.m., a caller from Main Street reported someone was missing.

IN CORNVILLE, Wednesday at 10:37 a.m., an automobile theft was reported on West Ridge Road.

IN FAIRFIELD, Wednesday at 11:39 a.m., a burglary was reported on High Street.

IN FARMINGTON, Wednesday at 10:55 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Wilton Road.

3:55 p.m., trespassing was reported on Thompson Walton Court.

10:35 p.m., noise was reported on Court Street.

IN FREEMAN TOWNSHIP, Wednesday at 11:04 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Foster Hill Road.

IN JAY, Wednesday at 1:28 p.m., trespassing was reported on Main Street.

7:19 p.m., an assault was reported on Old Jay Hill Road.

IN MADISON, Wednesday at 5:28 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Kincaid Road.

Thursday at 6:27 a.m., a fire was reported on Hunnewell Road.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Wednesday at 4:40 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Bigelow Hill Road.

IN OAKLAND, Wednesday at 1:28 p.m., threatening was reported on Fairfield Street.

IN PITTSFIELD, Wednesday at 1:58 p.m., a fire was reported on Webb Road.

IN SALEM TOWNSHIP, Wednesday at 7:40 a.m., a traffic accident causing injury was reported on Salem Road.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Wednesday at 8:49 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Waterville Road.

11:22 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on North Avenue.

IN TEMPLE, Wednesday at 9:37 a.m., threatening was reported on Mitchell Brook Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Wednesday at 8:14 a.m., an assault was reported on Spring Place.

12:04 p.m., a caller from Sheldon Place reported someone was missing.

12:47 p.m., a caller from Summer Street reported someone was missing.

2:38 p.m., a caller from Gray Street reported someone was missing.

3:23 p.m., an assault was reported on Kelsey Street.

8:36 p.m., noise was reported on Autumn Street.

9:05 p.m., noise was reported on Autumn Street.

Thursday at 3:04 a.m., a theft was reported at Thayer Garden Apartments, Building 22, on Quarry Road.

IN WILTON, Wednesday at 7:18 p.m., a structure fire was reported on Temple Road.

IN WINSLOW, Wednesday at 8:09 a.m., threatening was reported on Oak Hill Terrace.

ARRESTS

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Wednesday at 11:43 a.m., Christopher James Small, 24, of Norridgewock, was arrested on a charge of burglary of a vehicle.

7:12 p.m., Joshua Allan Stickney, 26, of Anson, was arrested on a warrant.

Thursday at 8:51 a.m., Khanh Quoc Le, 49, of Skowhegan, was arrested and charged with three counts of criminal trespass.

IN WATERVILLE, Wednesday at 8:38 a.m., Brandon Ross, 33, of Winslow, was arrested on a warrant.

Also at 8:38 a.m., Danielle Jones, 28, of Winslow, was arrested on a warrant.

A husband and wife who were shot inside their Millinocket home this week remained hospitalized Thursday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor while police continue to seek information about who might have been responsible.

Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland identified the shooting victims as Wayne Lapierre, 59, and his wife, Diem Lapierre, 33.

McCausland said Diem Lapierre is recovering from her injuries, but her husband’s condition remains much more serious.

The two were apparently targeted during a home invasion late Tuesday at their residence at 355 Massachusetts Ave. McCausland said Thursday that the Lapierre’s two children were at home when the shooting took place. Neither was injured and both are now staying with other family members.

The Lapierres were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, which went into lockdown shortly thereafter to control access to the emergency room. The lockdown was lifted after the couple was transferred to Bangor.

McCausland said Thursday that police are still conducting interviews and gathering evidence from inside the home.

He also said that anyone who might have seen suspicious activity around the home on Tuesday should contact Maine State Police in Bangor at 973-7300.

AUGUSTA — A Waterville man will spend nine months and a day behind bars for sexually assaulting two girls under age 12.

Kevin Easler, 28, had pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful sexual contact that occurred in the period of June to November 2015 in Waterville and was sentenced recently at the Capital Judicial Center.

Once he serves the jail time — which is to begin Wednesday next week — he is to be placed on probation for six years while the remainder of the 10-year term is suspended.

The investigation began after the girls told their mother about what had happened, according to documents at the Capital Judicial Center.

A sentencing memo filed by defense attorney Andrew Wright says Easler cooperated with police. The memo also indicates that the defense and the prosecution had agreed to a three-year cap on the period of initial incarceration.

Wright argued for a fully suspended sentence, saying that Easler had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Asperger’s syndrome, now classified as an autism spectrum disorder.

Neighbors wrote letters of support for Easler, saying he made a mistake. One of Easler’s uncles wrote a letter as well, saying Easler was mentally, socially and emotionally disabled.

The state asked for Easler to serve the agreed-upon cap.

“The state sought three years as an active period of imprisonment because we felt it was similar to other similar offenses, and because we felt a (Department of Corrections) sentence of over two years would give the defendant time to participate in the treatment and counseling options available in custody,” Deputy District Attorney Paul Cavanaugh said in an email sent Thursday. “The defendant presented a volume of mental health information and the court struck what it hopes is the appropriate balance between punishment and treatment.”

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FARMINGTON — Closed cases for July 24-Aug. 4, 2017, in Farmington District Court and Franklin County Superior Court.

Eric R. Abbott, 40, of Wilton, fishing violation of number, amount, weight or size June 6, 2017, in Wilton; $120 fine.

Debra Barbioni, 55, of East Dixfield, operating while license suspended or revoked June 13, 2017, in Jay; $250 fine.

John J. Bennett Jr., 53, of Greene, fishing without valid license May 26, 2017, in Avon; $100 fine.

Justin Francis Bernier, 36, of Strong, motor vehicle speeding more than 30 mph over speed limit May 20, 2017, in Sandy River Plantation; dismissed.

Martin D. Brown, 54, of Chesterville, operating under the influence May 24, 2017, in Farmington; $500 fine, 150-day license suspension. Attaching false plates, same date and town; dismissed.

Keith F. Davis, 44, of Phillips, operating while license suspended or revoked June 9, 2017, in Phillips; $250 fine.

Noah D. Duncan-Perley, 18, of Farmington, operating while license suspended or revoked April 30, 2017, in Farmington; $250 fine.

Melissa A. Dunham, 37, of Starks, fishing without valid license May 27, 2017, in Sandy River Plantation; $100 fine.

Russell J. Dyer, 42, of Strong, failure to register vehicle June 16, 2017, in Strong; $200 fine.

Joanna R. Farrar, 31, of Rangeley, failure to register vehicle June 6, 2017, in Rangeley; $100 fine.

Nelson A. Fenoff, 63, of Farmington, operating while license suspended or revoked May 2, 2017, in Farmington; $500 fine. Operating vehicle without license, same date and town; dismissed.

Dawn M. Fitch, 29, of Jay, operating under the influence June 3, 2017, in Jay; $500 fine, 150-day license suspension. Unlawful possession of scheduled drug June 3, 2017, in Jay; $400 fine. Violating condition of release, June 9, 2017, in Jay; dismissed.

Brandon Gray, 34, of Jay, violation of rule: fishing in closed waters May 28, 2017, in Wilton; $100 fine.

Michael T. Gray, 26, of East Falmouth, Massachusetts, operating while license suspended or revoked June 9, 2017, in Strong; $250 fine.

Valerie Leach, 44, of Chesterville, attaching false plates May 24, 2017, in Farmington; $150 fine.

Shawn F. Levigne, 27, of Farmington, operating while license suspended or revoked May 3, 2017, in Farmington; $250 fine.

Degan Libby, 18, of Jay, operating all-terrain vehicle on public way June 21, 2017, in Jay; $100 fine.

Becki J. McGhee, 48, of Wilton, permitting unlawful use June 16, 2017, in Strong; dismissed.

James Metzger, 23, of Livermore Falls, improper ATV noise and fire control devices June 3, 2017, in Jay; $100 fine.

Joshua Morse, 23, of Bath, operating while license suspended or revoked April 22, 2017, in New Sharon; $500 fine.

Leo Norton, 32, of Livermore Falls, fishing violation of number, amount, weight or size June 4, 2017, in Wilton; $120 fine.

Sean F. Nurse, 42, of Vienna, fishing without valid license June 24, 2017, in Farmington Falls; $100 fine.

Ethan D. Olson, 19, of Buxton, operating/permitting operation, no ID/validation displayed May 27, 2017, in Sandy River Plantation; $100 fine.

Kristen L. Ouellette, 33, of Jay, attaching false plates June 4, 2017, in Jay; $200 fine.

Joel Michael Penwell, 28, of Stratton, operating vehicle without license June 24, 2017, in Eustis; $150 fine.

Charles D. Perri Jr., 24, of Skowhegan, operating under the influence June 10, 2017, in Farmington; $500 fine, 48-hour jail sentence, 150-day license suspension.

Justin Ridlon, 19, of Wayne, minor consuming liquor June 21, 2017, in Farmington; $350 fine. Minor transporting liquor, same date and town; dismissed.

John D. Schmidt, 27, of Jay, attaching false plates June 13, 2017, in Jay; $150 fine.

Randy C. Schmidt, 51, of Livermore Falls, operating vehicle without license May 31, 2017, in Jay; $150 fine.

Hope Althea Schultz, 29, of Jay, operating under the influence May 28, 2017, in Farmington; $500 fine, 150-day license suspension.

Herbert Louis Small, 22, of Jay, operating while license suspended or revoked April 2, 2017, in Jay; $500 fine.

Robert D. Walker, 45, of Greenbush, operating under the influence May 19, 2017, in Strong; $500 fine, 150-day license suspension.

Brendan J. Watterson, 22, of Chesterville, discharging firearm or crossbow near dwelling May 19, 2017, in Chesterville; $150 fine.

Ryan W. White, 38, of Wilton, violating fishing rule May 20, 2017, in Sandy River Plantation; $100 fine.

Dale A. York, 49, of Jay, permitting unlawful use June 4, 2017, in Jay; $200 fine.