IN ANSON, Saturday at 8:38 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Preble Avenue.

IN BINGHAM, Saturday at 1:31 a.m., a disturbance was investigated on Main Street.

IN CLINTON, Saturday at 10:54 a.m., criminal mischief was investigated on McNally Road.

11:49 a.m., a theft was investigated on River Road.

IN EMBDEN, Saturday at 5:31 p.m., a vehicle theft was investigated on Moulton Road.

IN FAIRFIELD, Saturday at 2:30 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Island Avenue.

9:43 a.m., a complaint about harassment was investigated on Main Street.

2:44 p.m., threatening was investigated on Osborne Street.

11:14 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Island Avenue.

IN MADISON, Satuday at 11:53 a.m., a scam complaint was investigated on Main Street.

5:07 p.m., a complaint about harassment was investigated on Weston Avenue.

5:46 p.m., an assault was investigated on Bean Street.

9:01 p.m., a disturbance was reported on John Street.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Saturday at 12:34 a.m., an arrest was made after a report of an assault on Waterville Road.

3:53 p.m., an arrest was made after a report of an intoxicated person on Ferry Road.

IN OAKLAND, Saturday at 12:04 p.m., a theft was investigated on Church Street.

IN PALMYRA, Saturday at 7:47 p.m., a complaint about harassment was investigated on St. Albans Road.

8:53 p.m., a complaint about harassment was taken on St. Albans Road.

IN PITTSFIELD, Saturday at 10:38 a.m., a scam complaint was taken on Libby Street.

7 p.m., an assault was investigated on Waverly Street.

7:12 p.m., a person was taken to the hospital after a report of a disturbance on Dorothy Street.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Saturday at 12:08 a.m., an intoxicated person was reported on West Front Street.

6:37 a.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Indian Ridge.

12:40 p.m., a scam complaint was investigated on Water Street.

1:13 p.m., a disturbance was investigated on Bouffard Street.

3:20 p.m., disorderly conduct was investigated on Fairview Avenue.

4:03 p.m., a disturbance was investigated on Fairgrounds Market Place.

4:48 p.m., a disturbance was investigated on Main Street.

6:50 p.m., a noise complaint was taken on Norridgewock Avenue.

8:21 p.m., a scam complaint was taken on Silver Street. ‘

Sunday at 1:53 a.m., an arrest was made after a report of a domestic disturbance on West Front Street.

IN SOLON, Saturday at 1:36 p.m., a domestic disturbance was investigated on South Solon Road.

8:20 p.m., an assault was investigated on North Main Street.

IN STANDISH, Saturday at 3:17 p.m., a complaint about harassment was investigated on Palmyra Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Saturday at 7:17 a.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

7:59 a.m., suspicious activity was investigated at Gifford’s Ice Cream on Silver Street.

8:23 a.m., an unwanted person was reported at the Waterville post office on College Avenue.

8:58 a.m., a report of fraud or forgery was taken from the Maine Smoke Shop on College Avenue.

9:07 a.m., an oral warning was issued after a report of a domestic dispute on Central Avenue.

9:58 a.m., a burglary of a motor vehicle was investigated on Kimball Street.

10:32 a.m., an arrest was made after a report of shoplifting at Marden’s Surplus & Salvage on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

12:55 p.m., an accident involving an injury was reported on Front Street.

1:17 p.m., juvenile offenses were reported on Maple Street.

3:14 p.m., a theft was reported at Marden’s Surplus & Salvage on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

6:39 p.m., a disturbance was investigated on College Avenue.

6:55 p.m., a noise complaint was taken on West Pleasant Street.

8 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Elm Street.

8:42 p.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Dalton Street.

10:38 p.m., a fight was reported at You Know Whose Pub on The Concourse.

IN WINSLOW, Saturday at 7:50 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on the Winslow walking trail.

3:01 p.m., an assault was investigated at the McDonald’s restaurant on China Road.

ARRESTS

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Saturday at 1:13 a.m., Alec Niemy, 26, of Norridgewock, was arrested on two charges of assault.

4:47 p.m., Robert E. French, 46, of Scarborogh, was arrested on charged of disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing and refusing to submit to arrest or detention.

Sunday at 2:46 a.m., Kelly C. Dore, 55, of Skowhegan, was arrested on charges of criminal threatening, domestic violence assault and domestic violence criminal threatening.

9:21 a.m., Jason C. White, 48, of Fairfield, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

IN WATERVILLE, Saturday at 4:47 p.m., Justin L. Williams, 39, of Waterville, was arrested on charges of a probation hold, violating condition of release and unlawful possession of scheduled drug.

11:13 p.m., Daric L. Davenport, 44, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

Sunday at 1:09 a.m., Jeffrey L. Marshall, 32, of Augusta, was arrested on a warrant.

SUMMONSES

IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 1:09 a.m., Rachel L. Bolduc, 41, of Augusta, was summoned on a charge of operating while license suspended or revoked, with one prior conviction.

IN WINSLOW, Saturday at 7:57 p.m., Kevin Phanor, 29, of China, was summoned on a charge of operating a vehicle with expired registration after more than 150 days.

AUGUSTA — This is a roundup of cases closed May 10-16, 2018, in courts in Augusta and Waterville.

Thomas A. Alley, 52, of Henderson, Nevada, operating while license suspended or revoked March 24, 2018, in Winthrop; $250 fine.

Yolanda Armstrong, 32, of Plymouth, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Sept. 24, 2017, in Waterville; dismissed.

Justin B. Austin, 28, of Augusta, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 10, 2018, in Gardiner; $500 fine.

Heather Beaulieu, 31, of Waterville, protection from harassment order violation June 8, 2017, in Waterville; dismissed.

Gerard Boynton, 30, of Monmouth, trafficking in prison contraband Dec. 3, 2017, in Augusta; six-month jail sentence.

Thomas Brooks, 30, of Waterville, domestic violence assault Sept. 20, 2017, in Oakland; 364-day jail sentence, all but 25 days suspended, one-year probation.

Jeffrey Brown, 38, of Hallowell, failure to register vehicle March 29, 2018, in Hallowell; $100 fine.

Jared Colby, 26, of Waterville, unlawful possession of scheduled drug March 29, 2018, in Waterville; five-year Department of Corrections sentence, all but 18 months suspended, three-year probation. Violating condition of release and two counts aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs, same date and town; dismissed.

Kami Dedoes, 33, of Randolph, failure to register vehicle April 4, 2018, in Hallowell; dismissed.

Sarah L. Delisle, 38, of West Gardiner, domestic violence terrorizing March 17, 2018, in West Gardiner; 364-day jail sentence, all but 12 days suspended, two-year probation.

Joshua T. Eastman, 31, of Monmouth, operating snowmobile on open water March 3, 2018, in Monmouth; $100 fine.

Devin A. Folsom, 27, of Oakland, violating protection from abuse order May 11, 2018, in Oakland; 48-hour jail sentence.

Herby Joseph Fournier, 35, of Waterville, operating while license suspended or revoked March 30, 2018, in Waterville; dismissed. Operating while license suspended or revoked April 14, 2018, in Augusta; $500 fine.

Randy A. Gemelli, 32, of Smithfield, operating under the influence Oct. 15, 2017, in Belgrade; $700 fine, seven-day jail sentence, three-year license and registration suspension.

David W. Giberson, 54, of Rumford, operating while license suspended or revoked March 19, 2017, in Oakland; dismissed.

Asher Conrad Gifford, 56, of Albion, possessing sexually explicit material depicting minor under 12, May 11, 2016, in Albion; five years, all but 42 months suspended, six years’ probation. Four counts of possessing sexually explicit material depicting minor under 12 May 11, 2016, in Albion; five years, all but 42 months suspended on each. Four counts of possessing sexually explicit material depicting minor under 12 June 20, 2016, in Albion; five years, all but 42 months suspended on each.

Mark Anthony Gooding, 52, of Belgrade Lakes, operating while license suspended or revoked Nov. 1, 2017, in Oakland; $250 fine.

Christopher A. Grant, 32, of Starks, operating while license suspended or revoked July 30, 2016, in Belgrade; dismissed.

Kristie M. Grant, 42, of Skowhegan, operating while license suspended or revoked March 31, 2017, in Winslow; dismissed.

Donald Gurney, 47, of Sidney, failure to register vehicle March 15, 2018, in Gardiner; dismissed.

Marisole E. Handren, 20, of Johnston, Rhode Island, operating while license suspended or revoked April 10, 2017, in Sidney; dismissed.

Clinton Paul Hanna, 32, of Belgrade, criminal mischief Aug. 16, 2017, in Waterville; $200 fine, $32.50 restitution. Theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, same date and town; dismissed.

Emilie Hanson, 26, of Winslow, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer March 22, 2017, in Waterville; dismissed.

Jared E. Harvey, 46, of South China, operating under the influence Jan. 28, 2018, in Augusta; $500 fine, 48-hour jail sentence, 150-day license suspension.

Kathryn Hopkins, 27, of Belmont, endangering the welfare of a child Nov. 15, 2016, in Waterville; dismissed. Violating condition of release Sept. 16, 2017, in Waterville; unconditional discharge.

Rebecca-Lynn M. Humphrey, 36, of Winslow, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer July 28, 2017, in Winslow; dismissed.

Becka A. Hurst, 40, of Waterville, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 10, 2017, in Vassalboro; dismissed.

Matthew R. Kerr, 27, of New Sharon, operating under the influence May 13, 2018, in Vassalboro; $500 fine, 48-hour jail sentence, 150-day license suspension. Operating while license suspended or revoked May 13, 2018, in Vassalboro; $500 fine, 48-hour jail sentence. Operating vehicle without license and failure to stop, remain, provide information, same date and town; dismissed.

Kristina G. Kittredge, 33, of Gardiner, failure to register vehicle Feb. 15, 2018, in Augusta; dismissed. Failure to register vehicle March 20, 2018, in Augusta; $100 fine.

Victor P. Lawrence, 64, of Chelsea, failure to comply with sex offender registry act Dec. 20, 2017, in Chelsea; dismissed.

Traci P. Littlefield, 26, of Waterville, operating while license suspended or revoked Dec. 12, 2016, in Waterville; dismissed.

Demarrio Long, 28, of Augusta, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer March 30, 2018, in Augusta; $200 fine, $190 restitution.

Erik Longmore, 28, of Augusta, domestic violence assault March 13, 2018, in Augusta; two-year jail sentence, all but 90 days suspended, two-year probation.

Brittany Lopez, 24, of Union, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Sept. 22, 2017, in Augusta; dismissed.

Bruce F. Macdonald, 64, of South China, cultivating marijuana Feb. 9, 2018, in China; $500 fine.

Joshua D. Macdonald, 34, of Bowdoinham, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 2, 2018, in Gardiner; $500 fine.

Stacey L. Macintyre, 42, of Augusta, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Dec. 24, 2017, in Augusta; 24-hour jail sentence.

Natasha M. Manson, 28, of Oakland, operating under the influence Nov. 5, 2017, in Waterville; $600 fine, 96-hour jail sentence, 150-day license suspension. Refusing to sign criminal summons Nov. 5, 2017, in Waterville; 24-hour jail sentence.

James L. McDonnell, 65, of Litchfield, operating while license suspended or revoked March 15, 2018, in Litchfield; $250 fine.

William J. McLain Sr., 56, of Clinton, violating condition of release Nov. 9, 2017, in Clinton; $100 fine.

Amanda Moody, 36, of Augusta, failure to register vehicle March 25, 2018, in Windsor; dismissed.

Cameron L. Morrison, 19, of Winslow, minor consuming liquor Oct. 29, 2017, in Winslow; $200 fine.

Jessica Nelson, 42, of Winthrop, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs May 12, 2017, in Augusta; $400 fine, five-year Department of Corrections sentence, all but 18 months suspended, two-year probation. Unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs May 12, 2017, in Augusta; $400 fine, 18-month Department of Corrections sentence. Unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs May 12, 2017, in Augusta; $400 fine, 18-month Department of Corrections sentence. Unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs May 12, 2017, in Augusta; $400 fine, 18-month Department of Corrections sentence. Unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs May 12, 2017, in Augusta; $400 fine, 18-month Department of Corrections sentence. Unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs May 12, 2017, in Augusta; $400 fine, 18-month Department of Corrections sentence. Five counts of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, same date and town; dismissed.

Samantha R. Nickerson, 29, of Augusta, operating while license suspended or revoked Jan. 26, 2018, in Clinton; dismissed.

Allen P. Nutt, 36, of Waterville, operating while license suspended or revoked Feb. 15, 2018, in China; $250 fine. Operating while license suspended or revoked Dec. 2, 2017, in Waterville; $500 fine.

Aaron L. Penny, 30, of Manchester, disorderly conduct fighting Nov. 4, 2017, in Winthrop; $300 fine. Assault Nov. 4, 2017, in Winthrop; dismissed.

Jake J. Pilsbury, 26, of Warren, theft by unauthorized use of property May 7, 2017, in Windsor; two-year Department of Corrections sentence, $500 restitution. Violating condition of release May 7, 2017, in Windsor; six-month jail sentence. Operating while license suspended or revoked May 7, 2017, in Windsor; six-month jail sentence. Failing to notify of motor vehicle accident May 7, 2017, in Windsor; six-month jail sentence.

Crystal Pooler, 28, of Oakland, operating under the influence Nov. 8, 2017, in Waterville; $500 fine, 150-day license suspension; endangering the welfare of a child, same date and town; dismissed.

Justin Pomeroy, 24, of Pittsfield, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Oct. 4, 2017, in Waterville; dismissed.

Michael Poulin, 21, of Bath, cruelty to animals Aug. 13, 2016, in Manchester; $250 fine.

Harry S. Reed Jr., 35, of Oxford, criminal trespass Aug. 24, 2017, in Waterville; $150 fine.

Gerald Richards, 74, of Waterville, disorderly conduct, offensive words, gestures Nov. 5, 2017, in Waterville; unconditional discharge; assault and unlawful sexual touching, same date and town; dismissed.

Trevor Rideout, 19, of Pittston, criminal mischief Feb. 26, 2018, in West Gardiner; $200 fine, $569 restitution.

Brandon A. Riordan, 29, of Lisbon Falls, operating after registration suspended Feb. 27, 2018, in Hallowell; $150 fine.

Brandon M. Robinson, 27, of Augusta, violating condition of release March 7, 2018, in Augusta; seven-day jail sentence. Operating while license suspended or revoked March 7, 2018, in Augusta; $600 fine, seven-day jail sentence, one-year license suspension.

Bryan A. Robbins, 25, of Winslow, driving to endanger Dec. 10, 2016, in Winslow; $575 fine, 30-day license suspension. Operating under the influence, same date and town; dismissed.

Cassandra Rogers, 26, of Lewiston, operating while license suspended or revoked Aug. 22, 2017, in Waterville; $600 fine, 10-day jail sentence, 150-day license suspension.

Damien G. Rogers, 45, of Gardiner, failing to notify of motor vehicle accident Feb. 9, 2018, in Hallowell; $150 fine.

Gerald E. Ryder, 70, of Clinton, driving to endanger and reckless conduct July 4, 2017, in Clinton; dismissed.

Jeffrey St. Peter, 52, of Winslow, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Oct. 23, 2017, in Waterville; $200 fine.

William James Scardoni, 38, of Auburn, violating condition of release Sept. 9, 2017, in Waterville; 24-hour jail sentence. Operating after registration suspended and operate while license suspended or revoked, same date and town; dismissed.

Marie Searles, 23, of Chelsea, domestic violence assault Aug. 20, 2016, in Farmingdale; 180-day all suspended jail sentence, one-year probation.

Jordan Smith, 23, of Whitefield, allow minor to possess or consume liquor Oct. 29, 2016, in Waterville; dismissed.

Arnold J. Stephens, 23, of Raleigh, North Carolina, motor vehicle speeding more than 30 mph over speed limit Dec. 26, 2017, in Monmouth; dismissed.

Bruce M. Stetson, 54, of Waterville, driving to endanger June 1, 2017, in Waterville; dismissed.

Gregory E. Storer, 35, of Jay, criminal mischief Dec. 30, 2017, in Monmouth; $200 fine, $166 restitution.

Daniel E. Taylor, 27, of Wilton, driving to endanger Jan. 28, 2018, in Belgrade; $575 fine, 30-day license suspension. Operating under the influence, same date and town; dismissed.

Nicole A. Taylor, 42, of Farmingdale, theft by deception Feb. 15, 2018, in Augusta; 10-day jail sentence; operate while license suspended or revoked, Feb. 21, 2018, in Augusta; dismissed. Operating after habitual offender revocation March 26, 2018, in Farmingdale; $500 fine, 30-day jail sentence. Theft by unauthorized taking or transfer April 24, 2018, in Augusta; 10-day jail sentence. Violating condition of release April 24, 2018, in Augusta; 10-day jail sentence. Unlawful possession of scheduled drug Feb. 1, 2018, in Farmindgale; $500 fine, 364-day jail sentence, all suspended, one-year probation.

Michelle J. Taylor, 53, of Dedham, motor vehicle speeding more than 30 mph over speed limit Jan. 29, 2018, in Wayne; dismissed.

Nicole A. Taylor, 42, of Farmingdale, unlawful possession of scheduled drug Feb. 1, 2018, in Farmingdale; $400 fine, 364-day jail sentence all suspended, one-year probation.

Donald Robert True Sr., 50, of Winthrop, violating protection from abuse order June 19, 2017, in Monmouth; 180-day jail sentence, all suspended, one-year probation.

Leo P. Valcourt, 44, of Waterville, violating protection from abuse order March 2, 2018, in Waterville; three-day jail sentence.

Levi L. Violette, 27, of Manchester, failing to notify of motor vehicle accident May 20, 2016, in Augusta, unlawful possession of scheduled drug and violating condition of release, July 15, 2016, in Augusta; dismissed. Driving to endanger April 10, 2017, in Sidney; $575 fine, 30-day license suspension. Violating condition of release April 10, 2017, in Sidney; $200 fine, $200 suspended. Possession of marijuana, up to 1.25 ounces, and use of drug paraphernalia, July 15, 2016, in Augusta; dismissed.

Steven Warfield, 40, of Canaan, unlawful possession of heroin Feb. 11, 2017, in Oakland; $400 fine, four-year Department of Corrections sentence, all but nine months suspended, two-year probation.

Jenny R. Wickett, 37, of Skowhegan, theft by deception Nov. 2, 2017, in Waterville; 30-day jail sentence, $35.74 restitution; theft by deception, same date and town; dismissed.

Wyatt Wilson, 41, of Augusta, violating condition of release May 13, 2018, in Augusta; five-day jail sentence.

Megan L. Woodcock, 20, of Randolph, criminal trespass March 10, 2018, in Randolph; $100 fine.

Chelsea Wyman, 26, of Augusta, unlawful possession of scheduled drug April 12, 2018, in Clinton; $400 fine, 180-day jail sentence all but 30 days suspended, one year probation. Unlawful possession of scheduled drug and violating condition of release, same date and town; dismissed.

Randy L. Young, 40, of Chelsea, operating while license suspended or revoked April 11, 2018, in Hallowell; dismissed.

IN AUGUSTA, Saturday at 9:41 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Mill Street.

12:34 p.m., theft was reported on Green Street.

12:39 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Littlefield Street.

3:08 p.m., a brush fire was reported on Mud Mill Road. The fire was extinguished.

3:25 p.m., harassment was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

6:05 p.m., a 32-year-old Windsor man was summoned on a charge of theft on Civic Center Drive.

6:55 p.m., a past burglary was reported on Eastern Avenue.

9:36 p.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

10:36 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Mill Street.

Sunday at 12:18 a.m., criminal threatening was reported on Cedar Street.

12:49 a.m., a burglary was reported on Waldo Street.

1:55 a.m., police responding to a report of a disturbance on Sewall Street summoned an 18-year-old woman from Augusta, a 20-year-old man from Winslow, an 18-year-old woman from Augusta and an 18-year-old woman from Farmingdale. They also arrested a 17-year-old juvenile and a 16-year-old juvenile, on one charge each of possession of alcohol or liquor by a minor.

IN HALLOWELL, Saturday at 7:34 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Lincoln Street.

5:32 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Water Street.

Sunday at 6:31 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Water Street.

ARREST

IN AUGUSTA, Saturday at 6:05 p.m., Shane Robert Wilson, 38, of North Fort Myers, Florida, was arrested on Civic Center Drive and charged with operating under the influence and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident.

SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was arrested and charged with criminal use of explosives Sunday after local and state police spent the morning taking various chemicals out of his Summer Street home as part of their investigation.

Philip Ewing, 46, was arrested at 11:31 a.m., according to a clerk at the Somerset County Jail, where he is now being held. Ewing is scheduled to see a judge at 11 a.m. Monday.

Ewing first called the Skowhegan Police Department at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, indicating that he was trying to disable a black powder cannon, according to Chief David Bucknam.

Ewing told police that “he was trying to disable (the cannon) by drilling holes into it as he didn’t feel safe due to everyone yelling about al-Qaida.”

Bucknam said police then met with Ewing, who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. The officers went to Ewing’s residence to ascertain whether the information he had given them was correct.

By peering through the windows of the home, Bucknam said, officers saw containers of bleach, gasoline, kerosene, a 5-gallon metal drum and numerous empty bottles of tannerite and gunpowder.

Officers backed away from the residence and notified the Maine State Police bomb squad.

Neighbors near Ewing’s residence were asked to leave their homes as a precaution.

Bucknam said a search warrant was issued and executed early Sunday morning and Ewing’s residence was “extremely cluttered” with various known and unknown chemicals, as well as other items of interest. Police still are investigating the chemicals and items.

The Summer Street residence has been secured safely, Bucknam said. The surrounding area was blocked off by police Sunday.

Around 11 a.m. Sunday, a heavy police presence could be seen outside the Summer Street residence. The state major crimes unit, the state fire marshal’s office, Skowhegan fire and rescue and Skowhegan police were all at the scene.

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Police say a 10-year-old Orrington boy who was reported missing Sunday hit a police cruiser with a car he stole in Penobscot County.

The boy was reported missing from Snows Center Road around 7:45 p.m. and investigating deputies from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office were told he may be driving a vehicle on Johnson Mill Road. A Holden police officer assisting with the search found the vehicle, which the boy initially pulled over, police said.

When the officer confirmed the boy was driving the car, he attempted to box the vehicle in, according to the sheriff’s office. The boy started to drive away and struck the side of the Holden police car.

The officer was able to detain the boy and remove him from the vehicle, which was later reported stolen from Brewer. Both vehicles received minor damage.

Neither the officer nor the boy was injured, police said. The boy was taken to a local hospital to be evaluated.

The sheriff’s office was assisted in the incident by Holden police, Maine State Police, Maine Warden Service and the Orrington Fire Department.

Following the deadly shooting Friday at a high school in Texas, two schools in Maine took precautionary measures Monday in response to reports of a threat and an overheard conversation that raised concerns.

At Baxter Academy in Portland, administrators called police to report a threatening message found in a bathroom. Police responded and students were evacuated at 1:46 p.m., a short time before they typically would be dismissed for the day, according to Portland police Lt. Robert Martin.

Officers searched the building and determined by about 3 p.m. that there was no threat. No one was arrested or charged, and the investigation continues, Martin said.

Earlier in the day, Lewiston High School was briefly locked down at the request of the Lewiston Police Department, but the superintendent said there was no incident at the school.

A public notice of the lockdown came from a tweet by Lewiston Schools Superintendent Bill Webster at 10:20 a.m.

By 10:56 a.m., the lockdown was over, according to a follow-up tweet by Webster.

Lewiston police said there was no specific threat. The lockdown originated with a report about 9:30 a.m. Monday by a person who overheard a conversation between two other people who were walking near the school, said Lt. Dave St. Pierre. The conversation caused concern, and the third person reported it to the police.

“We don’t know the context of the conversation or who made (the comments),” St. Pierre said. “We’re obviously seeking that person.”

St. Pierre said police are cautious in response to such tips, especially after the recent school shootings in Florida and Texas.

“With the proximity to the school and the climate, we are more diligent with it because of school shootings happening around the country,” he said.

The school put in place a “soft” lockdown, he said, in which classes and school activities continued as usual but the buildings were secured and parents were notified of the situation.

“We’re continuing to look into it and hopefully will find the person involved in this conversation to ascertain what was said,” St. Pierre said.

The threats come after another deadly school shooting, this time in Santa Fe, Texas, where a student opened fire Friday, killing 10 people and wounding 13.

Following the shooting in February in Parkland, Florida, schools around Maine received repeated threats of violence, interrupting classes and sometimes leading to the cancellation of classes.

AUGUSTA — When Jeremy Clement drove his four-wheeler from Fairfield to Oakland after reportedly calling his girlfriend multiple times on the phone, broke through the door of the house where she was staying and fired a round from the handgun he was armed with, wounding her, he was really trying to commit suicide, his defense attorney argued as Clement’s trial for attempted murder got underway Monday.

In his opening statement, the prosecutor disagreed. Not only did Clement come to kill his girlfriend that night, the state’s attorney said, he intended to kill her family, too.

Clement, 36, is charged with attempted murder, burglary, elevated aggravated assault, assault and possession of a firearm on April 19, 2017, the date police say he drove a four-wheeler to the Caret house in Oakland, kicked in the door, got into an altercation with Roseanna Caret after asking to talk to her daughter, Jasmine Caret, then shot Jasmine Caret in the shoulder. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in October 2017.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Madigan said Monday that the shooting was a moment that was “never going to stand by itself” and asked the jury of eight men and four women, “How does that single moment become an event that turns into evidence that then convinces each and every one of you beyond reasonable doubt what defined that moment?”

While the shooting was a single moment, Clement’s attorney, Walter McKee, said there was more to the story. Clement and Jasmine Caret had been communicating that day, he said, but Clement intended to kill himself that day. However, when he got to the house where Caret was living with her mother, Roseanne, in Oakland, things got out of hand. He was hit in the head by a baseball bat, and the gun went off.

Jasmine Caret, testifying in the afternoon in Kennebec County Superior Court, nearly became ill and sobbed after she was shown the bloody shirt she had been wearing the day she was shot. She had a similar reaction to seeing the bat her mother used to beat Clement with. She asked for a trash can in case she got sick.

Jasmine Caret said Clement called close to 100 times that day and played songs for her. One song had the lyric “I didn’t mean to treat you all so bad, but I did it anyway.” She said she may have called him once in the day.

Caret, wearing a pink dress with a white sweater, showed the scar where she was shot. She said she no longer has the full use of her right hand. She had to learn to write with her left hand and no longer can do simple daily tasks such as tie her shoes.

“I can’t feel my fingers,” she said. “I can’t straighten my hand.”

Clement did not show emotion during the entire first day of the trial, instead looking forward without expression. Aside from one moment near the end of the first day, he faced forward and did not look at those observing the trial.

The physician who treated Jasmine Caret, Dr. Lawrence Kassman, the prosecution’s first witness, said Caret was “awake and alert” when she was brought in, though she had a collapsed lung that required treatment. The doctor estimated that Caret’s lung was roughly 20 percent collapsed. He said people can die of collapsed lungs if they go untreated. She also had nerve damage in her right arm, likely from being shot.

Jasmine Caret testified she was concerned about Clement’s welfare that day and called police.

Fairfield police Sgt. Matthew Wilcox corroborated her testimony, saying Caret had called him to check on Clement earlier in the day. He said Clement was “tearful and upset” but did not appear to want to take his own life. He spoke on the phone with Clement later in the day, but the call was cut short when he had to assist another officer.

“I’ve dealt with Jeremy on a couple of different occasions,” Wilcox said.

Jasmine Caret’s mother, Roseanna, testified she had known Clement since her daughter was 13, and that he had called her daughter at least 20 times that day and was angry over the phone. She said she heard Clement say, “I’m going to kill you and your family, too.”

Around 8:30 p.m. that night, she heard his four-wheeler come into her driveway. She said that by the sound of his voice, she could tell Clement wanted to hurt them.

“I was concerned for my daughter,” she said.

Roseanna Caret got a baseball bat her late son had made in high school, which Madigan showed to the jury. She said Clement kicked open the door, which sent her flying and caused her to “black out.” She came to when she heard a loud bang and began hitting Clement after she realized he had shot her daughter.

“I was gonna protect Jasmine,” she said.

Kassman, the doctor, said he did not treat Clement directly, but he did have a laceration on his head that required 20 to 25 staples to close.

During cross-examination, McKee questioned Roseanne Caret’s testimony and memory. He said Caret had said in an earlier statement under oath that she attacked Clement with the baseball bat before he shot her daughter. Caret said she later retracted that statement.

The exchange between Roseanna Caret and McKee got heated to the point that Justice Bill Stokes had to ask Roseanna Caret not to speak over McKee and only answer the questions he asked. Roseanna Caret said she did not remember all the events from that day, including how many times Clement fired the gun, whether she spoke to an officer who was speaking to her mother May, who was also present at the house, and whether Jasmine had struck Clement with a croquet mallet.

Roseanna Caret did admit that she heard Clement say over the phone while he was on a speaker that he was going to kill himself, although earlier she had said she did not hear him say that.

She did not see Clement shoot her daughter, but said that she was awakened by the bang of the gun, at which point she “commenced” hitting Clement with the bat.

Roseanna Caret speaks April 20, 2017, about subduing Jeremy Clement after he allegedly entered her home in Oakland and shot her daughter, Jasmine Caret, the previous evening. Roseanna Caret suffered serious head wounds while fighting off Clement with a bat before police arrived and arrested him. Staff file photo by David Leaming

McKee said Caret said she heard three shots in an earlier statement, but Caret said she did not remember. One bang she could have heard, she said, was when the officers subdued Clement with a Taser.

Photos of the wounds Roseanne Caret suffered were entered into evidence, including bruises on her neck and back, as well as a wound to her skull from when she was thrown back by the door. She said she landed on jars, which cut her head.

In the afternoon, Jasmine Caret’s grandmother May was called to the stand. She kept a log of all the calls Clement made to her house that day, and said she saw him take a pistol out of his pocket. She said he had lied when he came to the house when he said he didn’t have a weapon.

McKee played a recording of an earlier statement she had made, in which she said she did not see Clement shoot Jasmine, but May Caret seemed to become confused.

“That don’t sound like my voice,” she said.

Jasmine Clement admitted having been drinking that day and said in the past she has struggled with alcoholism, having gone through treatment eight years ago.

McKee asked her why she had said in an earlier statement that she had not been drinking that day. She said she was advised to lie about drinking, but couldn’t recall who advised her.

A blood-alcohol test had been administered to Jasmine Caret, Kassman, the doctor, said, and it indicated she probably had been drinking and could be considered legally intoxicated that day.

Caret’s mother said she saw her daughter drink three Twisted Teas but did not believe she had been drinking earlier in the day.

David Grant, who lives across the street from the Caret house, testified that Jasmine called him earlier that night to ask for help in case Clement came. Grant said he later heard “glass breaking and screaming” and went over to the house. At that time, Jasmine was just coming out, already having been shot. He said he went inside to separate Clement from Roseanna.

“I just pulled him off, grabbed him and dragged him across the floor,” Grant said. He said he helped police subdue Clement.

During McKee’s questioning, Grant said Roseanna Caret was beating Clement with the baseball bat.

David Grant surveys a room where blood remains on the floor and walls on April 20, 2017, at his neighbors’ home at 230 Oak St. in Oakland. Jeremy Clement allegedly entered the home the previous day and shot Jasmine Caret, whereupon her mother, Roseanna Caret, subdued Clement with a bat before police arrived and arrested him. Grant assisted police in the arrest. Staff file photo by David Leaming

Oakland police Officer Todd Burbank testified that Clement resisted arrest. He screamed profanities at Burbank and attempted to kick the window out of the police cruiser. Burbank tried to take Clement to the hospital because he had a laceration on his head, but Clement kept trying to kick the window out, so Burbank said he stopped the car and used pepper spray to subdue Clement. He then took him to the hospital. After searching Clement, he found a .40-caliber bullet on him.

Peter Thibbetts, a school resource officer with the Oakland Police Department, collected the spent shell casing, the handgun, the baseball bat and croquet mallets. He said the gun appeared to have jammed after it was fired initially.

In answer to a question from McKee, Thibbetts said May Caret had said Clement fired three times and had pointed the gun at Roseanna, though the gun was fired only once.

David Savage, the town’s code enforcement officer, who was a sergeant with Oakland police, also testified. When he got to the scene, he said, he helped Jasmine Caret by applying pressure to her wounds before paramedics arrived.

Court is scheduled to reconvene at 9 a.m. Tuesday. Stokes said it’s the jury could begin its deliberations Tuesday afternoon, but the trial is expected to last into Wednesday.

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IN CHESTERVILLE, Sunday at 12:07 p.m., police were called to remove a person on Ridge Road.

IN CLINTON, Sunday at 3:18 p.m., harassment was reported on Silver Street.

IN FAIRFIELD, Sunday at 10:27 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on High Street.

12:54 p.m., domestic disturbance was reported on Norridgewock Road.

2:25 p.m., a structure fire was reported on Skowhegan Road.

6:48 p.m., vandalism was reported on Cardinal Drive.

9:30 p.m., theft was reported on Center Road.

IN FARMINGTON, Sunday at 2:04 p.m., harassment was reported on Porter Hill Road.

3:51 p.m., police were called to remove a person on North Street.

IN JAY, Sunday at 2:55 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Plaisted Road.

10:53 p.m., domestic disturbance was reported on Main Street.

Monday at 6:50 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street.

IN MADISON, Sunday at 4:42 p.m., theft was reported on Pine Street.

5:27 p.m., domestic disturbance was reported on Preble Avenue.

5:38 p.m., a harassment complaint was reported on Horsetail Hill Road.

Monday at 1:07 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Preble Avenue.

IN OAKLAND, Sunday at 2:27 p.m., fraud or forgery was reported on First Park Drive.

IN PALMYRA, Sunday at 9:51 a.m., a motor vehicle burglary was reported on Oxbow Road.

IN PITTSFIELD, Sunday at 6:42 a.m., loud noise was reported on Hartland Avenue.

10:35 a.m., assault was reported on Raymond Street.

6:48 p.m., an intoxicated person was reported on Somerset Avenue.

9:08 p.m., disturbance was reported on Canaan Road.

IN RIPLEY, Sunday at 7:23 p.m., vandalism was reported on Tripp Road.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Sunday at 10:15 a.m., violation of bail was reported on North Avenue.

12:08 p.m., domestic disturbance was reported on North Avenue.

12:37 p.m., domestic disturbance was reported on North Avenue.

2:25 p.m., a harassment complaint was reported on Water Street.

4:04 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Madison Avenue.

6:07 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Family Circle.

11:27 p.m., a report of disturbance led to an arrest on Tammy Lane.

IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 9:29 a.m., assault was reported on College Avenue.

10:04 a.m., an unwanted person was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

10:47 a.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Water Street.

12:58 p.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

1:19 p.m., an arrest was made after a report of a property damage accident in JFK Plaza.

2:12 p.m., harassment was reported on Summer Street.

2:24 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on College Avenue.

4:41 p.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Elm Court.

7:49 p.m., harassment was reported on Cool Street.

10:16 p.m., a noise complaint was reported on Bartlett Street.

11 p.m., a traffic stop led to an arrest on Western Avenue.

11:22 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Elm Street.

Monday at 12:15 a.m., a pedestrian check led to an arrest on Silver Street.

IN WILTON, Sunday at 1:38 p.m., theft was reported on Main Street.

8:26 p.m., disturbance was reported on Main Street.

IN WINSLOW, Sunday at 10:45 a.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Patterson Avenue.

7:40 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Norton Street.

Monday at 2:01 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Patterson Avenue.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Sunday at 1:18 a.m., Eric B. Sanborn, 27, of Rangeley, was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear in court.

9 p.m., Christopher Richard Piccolo, 39, of Wilton, was arrested on charges of theft, two counts of operating while license suspended or revoked with prior conviction and violating condition of release.

11:55 p.m., Richard Elden Storer, 22, of Chesterville, was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence (alcohol).

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Sunday at 11:31 a.m., Philip John Ewing, 46, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a charge of criminal use of explosives.

9:10 p.m., Kate Lynn Tripodi, 33, of Cornville, was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear in court.

Monday at 12:46 a.m., Daytona John Roode, 19, of Skowhegan, was arrested on charges of assault and refusing to submit to arrest or detention.

IN WATERVILLE, Sunday at 11:10 p.m., Shaun Cook, 46, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of violating condition of release.

Monday at 12:27 a.m., John Rancourt, 43, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of theft.

IN AUGUSTA, Sunday at 9:49 a.m., theft was reported on Eastern Avenue.

9:53 a.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Bangor Street.

11:16 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Crossing Way.

11:58 a.m., harassment was reported on Malta Street.

1:46 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Pearl Street.

1:57 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on Boothby Street.

2:07 p.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Learners Drive.

2:57 p.m., an overdose rescue was done on Water Street.

5:27 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Civic Center Drive.

6:14 p.m., a well-being check was done on Water Street.

10:38 p.m., criminal threatening was reported on Mount Vernon Avenue.

Monday at 12:11 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on State and Green streets.

4:01 a.m., a well-being check was done on Western Avenue.

5:05 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Crossing Way.

IN GARDINER, Sunday at 2:16 p.m., theft was reported on Adams Street.

IN HALLOWELL, Sunday at 10:50 a.m., a well-being check was done on Water Street.

IN MONMOUTH, Saturday at 9:36 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Ridge Road.

11:50 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Pease Hill Road.

3:05 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Route 135.

4:56 p.m., a well-being check was done on Main Street.

IN MOUNT VERNON, Saturday at 11:22 p.m., a well-being check was done on Marble Point Road.

IN WEST GARDINER, Saturday at 1:54 p.m., vandalism was reported on Libby Lane.

ARRESTS

IN AUGUSTA, Friday at 5:59 p.m., Brandyn Erich Engler, 26, of Albion, was arrested on a charge of being a fugitive from justice, at the Kennebec County jail. According to court documents, the arrest stemmed from a burglary charge in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Sunday at 9:01 p.m., Timothy Norman Jennings, 39, of Augusta, was arrested on a warrant, on West Crescent Street.

11:15 p.m., Valerie Murphy Lowe, 52, of Augusta, was arrested on a charge of violation of probation, after a domestic disturbance was reported on Mill Street.

SUMMONSES

IN AUGUSTA, Sunday at 10:36 a.m., Amanda J. Hoenshell, 29, of Gardiner, was summoned on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer (less than $500), after shoplifting was reported on Civic Center Drive.

IN GARDINER, Friday at 7:08 p.m., Avery M.T. Teehan, 21, of Augusta, was summoned on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, after a Maine Avenue caller reported a theft.

A New Yorker is charged with dealing in heroin in the Alfond Youth Center parking lot on North Street in Waterville.

Jermaine Blunt, 33, of New York, made an initial appearance in front of a judge Monday at the Capital Judicial Center via video from the Kennebec County jail.

Blunt had been held at the jail in lieu of $75,000 bail set by a bail commissioner. An affidavit by Waterville police Officer Duane Cloutier said the bail was set at $25,000 for each of the three class A charges of aggravated trafficking — two in heroin and one in cocaine base — with an additional $500 cash for a related charged of failing to provide correct name and date of birth.

On Monday, Judge Eric Walker agreed to the state’s request for $75,000 bail with conditions that prohibit Blunt from use and possession of alcohol and illegal drugs and from leaving the state of Maine. Walker said the bail could be reviewed once an attorney is appointed for Blunt.

A man known as “Shawn” or “Jamal” was dealing dugs in Waterville, according to a confidential informant working with police, Cloutier wrote.

Coultier wrote that he and three other law enforcement officers worked with the informant, placed a wireless transmitter on him, provided “buy money” and had him call “Shawn” for drugs on May 15. Cloutier said “Shawn” said to meet at the parking lot of the Boys and Girls Clubs & YMCA of Greater Waterville at the Alfond Youth Center on North Street. The youth center, which is also near the municipal pool, basketball courts and a playground, has some 5,000 members and has programs for children as young as toddlers.

Cloutier said “brown tar heroin and a bag of suspected crack cocaine” was obtained by the informant during the drug buy in the parking lot.

The same scenario was repeated May 17, this time for heroin. The offenses are charged as “aggravated” because the location of the alleged trafficking is an area classified as a “safe zone,” which includes such areas as an athletic field, park, playground or recreational facility, according to Maine law.

Police obtained a search warrant for the man known as Shawn and found no drugs on him, according to Cloutier. However, the suspect refused to give his name and date of birth, eventually telling officers he was from Boston and New York.

Fingerprints sent to the FBI identified the suspect as Blunt, according to a separate affidavit by Waterville police Officer Luis Rodriguez, who assisted in the booking process.

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An Albion, New York, man originally facing state drug charges has been indicted on a federal charge of distribution of heroin.

Sharoz Haywood, 21, also known as “Baby Dreads” and “Rah Rah,” is accused of distributing the drug on July 14, 2017. That is the same date listed on state charges of aggravated possession of a schedule W drug and unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, which allegedly occurred in Augusta.

The state charges were dismissed last month. Haywood was arrested April 18 on a federal complaint in the Western District of New York and was released on $5,000 unsecured bail with home confinement conditions. He was indicted May 16.

According to the complaint, a confidential source told Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Officer Brian Wastella that “Baby Dreads” was selling a gram of crack cocaine for $100 and half gram of heroin for $100. Investigators later watched as the confidential informant purchased $200 worth of heroin from Haywood in Augusta.

Attorney Stephen C. Smith has been appointed to represent Haywood, and an arraignment date has yet to be set in U.S. District Court in Bangor. The prosecutor is Assistant U.S. Attorney Jody Mullis.

Conviction on a charge of distribution of heroin carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

An Orland man remained in the Hancock County Jail on Monday after his initial court appearance on a charge of gross sexual assault on an intellectually disabled woman.

The assault occurred in February, according to Hancock County District Attorney Matt Foster. The suspect, Van Stevens, was driving a bus taking the woman and other intellectually disabled women to Ellsworth, but after he dropped off the others, he allegedly drove the woman to a parking lot in Stonington, where he assaulted her.

The incident wasn’t reported for almost two weeks. According to Foster, that’s when Stevens showed up at the woman’s house, where he told her mother that he was there to pick up her daughter for a trip the two planned to take. The mother turned him away and spoke to her daughter, who told her about the alleged assault.

Stevens, who told investigators the contact was consensual, Foster said, is being held on two charges: Class A gross sexual assault (compulsion) and Class C gross sexual assault. The second charge is because Stevens was driving a bus under a contract with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

His bail has been set at $5,000 cash or $20,000 surety and he has been ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim and not be a driver of public transportation.

The case illustrates some of the difficulties that arise in dealing with alleged sexual assaults on those with disabilities, Foster said.

He said perpetrators will often convince victims that they will be blamed if they report the assault. Foster said he’s not sure if that happened in this case, but the woman didn’t report the alleged assault until her mother questioned her about the man who came to their door and what had transpired in February.

“She was afraid she would get in trouble,” Foster said. “This is such a violation of public trust.”

The case was investigated by the Maine State Police. The trooper who investigated did not return a call seeking comment Monday.

A recent investigation by National Public Radio said there is an “epidemic” of sexual assaults on people with intellectual disabilities. Federal statistics suggest that the rate of sexual assaults on the intellectually disabled is seven times higher than sexual assaults on those without disabilities.

Three men were arrested in Lebanon after state troopers caught them using a pickup truck to drag a stolen shed down the road, according to Maine State Police.

Troopers were called to the York County town on Sunday by a concerned citizen who reported three men had stolen a shed from a foreclosed property on Pork Street and were dragging it away.

When troopers arrived, they found the men still dragging the 25-foot-long shed, which was blocking half of Heath Road, state police said. Matthew Thompson of Lebanon, Timothy James of Pembroke, New Hampshire, and Robert Breton of Milton, New Hampshire, were arrested after troopers verified the shed was indeed stolen.

State police said Thompson was found with crystal meth and prescription pills that had not been prescribed to him. He was charged with unauthorized taking or transfer, and state police will seek indictments for unlawful possession of a Schedule W drug, reckless conduct, criminal mischief and unlawful possession of a Schedule Z drug.

James and Breton were charged with theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and are expected to be indicted on additional charges of reckless conduct and criminal mischief, police said.

All three men were taken to the York County Jail and held on $5,000 bail.

The York County Sheriff’s Office assisted with the case.

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Douglas Fletcher Franklin County Detention Center photo

JAY — A man is charged with threatening to light a mortar-style firework to throw at a police officer in his cruiser, Police Chief Richard Caton IV said.

Douglas Fletcher, 35, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of terrorizing and disorderly conduct for loud unreasonable noise, the chief said.

Officer Dylan Rider responded to a complaint of noise at about 11:21 p.m. Friday on Keep Road and warned Fletcher to stop setting off fireworks, Canton said. After Rider got in his cruiser to leave, Fletcher lit another firework and walked up to the cruiser with a mortar-style firework and a lighter. Caton said it looked like Fletcher was going to light it and throw it at Rider.

Fletcher did not have a permit from the Jay Fire Rescue Department to use fireworks, as required by town ordinance, the chief said.

A conviction on a terrorizing charge is punishable by up to 364 days in jail and up to a $2,000 fine. A conviction on a disorderly conduct charge is punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.

Fletcher posted $250 cash bail and released Saturday from the Franklin County Detention Center.

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AUGUSTA — Four people were arrested Monday on drug charges after city police say they searched a residence on Page Street and seized packaged heroin and cocaine.

Augusta police executed a search warrant at 2:45 p.m. at the building, where more than 18 grams of heroin packaged for sale and 4 grams of crack cocaine were found by authorities, according to a news release Tuesday from Deputy Chief Jared Mills. A Maine State Police dog assisted with the search of the residence as well as a Kennebec County Sheriff’s deputy, according to Mills.

Following the search, police arrested Scott Holbrook, 53, of Augusta; Desiree Mckenna, 25, of Augusta; Isidore Holmes, 25, of Brooklyn, New York; and an unidentified 17-year-old girl from Rockaway, New York.

Holbrook, McKenna and Holmes were each charged with two counts of trafficking in scheduled drugs. Holbrook’s bail was set at $15,000 cash, McKenna’s at $5,000 cash, and Holmes at $25,000 cash. All three were being held Tuesday at the Kennebec County jail in Augusta.

The 17-year-old was being held at an unidentified juvenile correctional facility, according to Mills.

The warrant was executed by the Augusta Police Department’s Special Response Team and resulted from a joint investigation with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

AUGUSTA — Jeremy Clement took the witness stand Tuesday in his trial for attempted murder, at times getting choked up when saying he never wanted to hurt his ex-girlfriend and maintaining that when he was hit from behind by a baseball bat, the gun he meant to kill himself with discharged, wounding Jasmine Caret.

His testimony described a relationship plagued by alcohol addiction that cost him his children, plunged him into depression, and led him to consider suicide.

Clement, 36, of Fairfield, is charged with attempted murder, burglary, elevated aggravated assault, assault and possession of a firearm on April 19, 2017, the date police say he drove a four-wheeler to the Caret house in Oakland, kicked in the door, got into an altercation with Roseanna Caret after asking to talk to her daughter, Jasmine Caret, then shot Jasmine Caret in the shoulder. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in October 2017.

Taking the stand Tuesday afternoon, Clement described how both he and Jasmine Caret suffered from alcohol addiction, which ruined their relationship. Clement has three children, including a 5-year-old son with Caret. He said he had to call the Department of Health and Human Services because of how much Caret was drinking. He said DHHS looked into his addiction issues, and took his children away from him about a week before the shooting.

“All I wanted to be was a good father,” Clement said.

After his children were taken away, Clement said he fell into a deep depression. In addition to drinking, he began to think about committing suicide.

Clement’s relationship with Caret had been “great” to begin with, he said. They had met when he was 16, had been dating for about six years, and had been living together. However, he said he had to take a leave of absence from work because things were falling apart with his family.

On April 19 before the shooting, Clement said he saw Jasmine Caret once after he called her what he estimated to be 40 times that day. He wanted to sit down with Caret and talk about their son. He met her on the side of the road on Route 201 and asked about his son. He had a hearing the following day regarding his son and was “crushed” at the thought of losing his children.

He had started drinking around 11 a.m. that day and drank about half a bottle of vodka by the time he went to the Caret house, he said, but maintained that at no point did he threaten Jasmine Caret over the phone.

Earlier in the day he had been replacing a sliding glass door at his Norridgewock home with a friend, when he decided he wanted to “put the plan in action” and commit suicide. He took the gun that was later used in Oakland, put it to his head and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed, and he said he “didn’t have the guts” to try it again.

When a Fairfield police officer came to check on him at the request of Caret, he said he told police he was not feeling suicidal that day. He told the jury he didn’t want to get put into a “jam” since he had a DHHS hearing about his son the next day, so he “shooed” them away.

“I told them I wasn’t (depressed),” he said. “I lied.”

At about this point Clement said he decided to take his four-wheeler over to the Caret house.

“I was planning to commit suicide and have her watch it,” he said. When asked why he wanted Jasmine Caret to watch him shoot himself, Clement responded, “I don’t know, I don’t know.”

The defense and the state have portrayed two different versions of what transpired once Clement made it to the Caret house, the biggest difference being who acted aggressively first. State’s attorney Michael Madigan says Clement shot Jasmine Caret, at which point her mother Roseanna hit him with a baseball bat. Defense attorney Walter McKee maintains Clement’s intent was to kill himself and not harm Jasmine Caret on the day he went to the Caret household and that Roseanna Caret hit Clement with the baseball bat before the gun went off.

On the stand Clement testified that when he went to the Caret house, he used his foot to open the breezeway door and tried to talk to Jasmine Clement. She wouldn’t tell him anything about his son, he said, and he took out his pistol to bring it to his head.

At this point, he said, he couldn’t directly see Jasmine. He was holding the gun high in the air to keep it away from Jasmine. As he was bringing it down, he said he was struck on the back of the head. The gun went off, and the next thing he knew he was being Tasered by police.

“I was telling (hospital workers) that I didn’t mean for this to happen and it was supposed to be me,” he said.

Madigan, in his cross examination, called into question Clement’s story. He asked why he had never mentioned in earlier interviews that he had actually attempted suicide that day. He had spoken to police officers, attorneys, hospital workers and others, but did not mention it. Likewise, he said Clement was saying how he never wanted to hurt Jasmine Caret. But at no point at the hospital did he ask how Caret was doing after being shot, nor in separate police interviews did he ask about Caret.

“They never would have told me,” Clement said of hospital staff. “At that point I’m concerned about myself.”

Madigan asked Clement about his anger that day. His home had been damaged, chairs and a shade for the sliding door had been broken. Clement said some of that had happened before that day. He didn’t consider himself mad, but said there was “no processing any of my feelings.”

Madigan asked why Clement took the gun and extra ammunition to the Caret home if he didn’t want to hurt Jasmine. The two sparred over how Clement got into the house. At first Clement said he had kicked open the door, but later he said he didn’t knock Roseanna Caret down because he had opened the door gently. When he walked in, he said he addressed Jasmine Caret briefly, then turned to face a closet with Jasmine out of sight just to his right. He brought out the gun, slid the chamber back with the gun high in the air, and brought the gun down with the intent to shoot himself. That’s when he was hit in the back of the head, he said.

“But she’s the one that got shot,” Madigan said.

“She’s the one that got shot, yeah,” Clement said.

Madigan said Clement’s claim about how he was holding the gun didn’t add up because of the entry and exit wound in Jasmine Caret’s shoulder. She was crouched lower to the ground. In her testimony the previous day, Jasmine Caret had said Clement was holding her down. Clement denied that.

Earlier in the day, McKee called Julie Hoogeveen, a physician’s assistant employed by MaineGeneral Medical Center at the hospital where Clement came in to be treated for the laceration on his head. As part of due diligence, she said, when a patient comes in, medical information about them is collected, such as their medical backgrounds and current symptoms. Part of that involves screening for “suicidality,” Hoogeveen told McKee.

“It’s important because we have to assess the risk, and also we have to decide how complex the workup needs to be,” she said.

Hoogeveen said Clement did express a desire to commit suicide, saying he had said he planned to kill himself in front of his partner. She read from the medical report in which Clement said “I wanted her to see me do it.” She said Clement did not say he wanted to hurt anyone else when he was at the hospital.

Before the lunch break, McKee called Maine State Police Det. Jonathan Heimbach to the stand and questioned him about the testimony of Roseanna and May Caret, Jasmine’s mother and grandmother. McKee asked Heimbach about interviews he conducted with Roseanna and May. He asked Heimbach about the timeline of events May Caret had outlined, and Heimbach said May Caret had said Roseanna Caret hit Clement with the baseball bat before the gun went off. She also had stated Clement had fired the gun three times, including once at Roseanna. Roseanna Caret had said earlier that the gun was fired three times. However, it was concluded the gun was fired once.

Before lunch, McKee made a motion to acquit Clement of the charges against him. Justice Bill Stokes denied it.

Tuesday’s proceedings followed an emotional first day of the trial, when the three Carets testified. At several points, Jasmine Caret sobbed and nearly became ill, especially after she was shown the bloody shirt she was wearing when Clement allegedly shot her. Jasmine Caret explained on Monday that she no longer has the full use of her right hand because of the shooting and also suffered a collapsed lung.

Before the trial resumed Tuesday, one juror said she had seen media coverage of the case. However, after a meeting with Stokes, Madigan and McKee, the juror was allowed to remain.

Shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday, Stokes said there would be no more evidence introduced. He dismissed the jury for the day, saying court would reconvene at 9 a.m. Wednesday to hear closing arguments and for the jury to begin deliberating.

He reminded jurors not to talk to each other or anyone else about the case and to avoid any media coverage.

“You’re the judges of the facts,” Stokes said.

Colin Ellis — 861-9253

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Twitter: @colinoellis

AUGUSTA — Starkly different closing arguments capped the murder trial of Aubrey N. Armstrong on Tuesday, as the prosecutor called for a conviction in a drug-related case he said offered a glimpse “into a dark and disturbing world,” while the defense pointed to evidence suggesting someone else may have been responsible for the killing.

Justice Daniel Billings said he intends to deliver a verdict around 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center.

Armstrong, 29, of Far Rockaway, New York, opted against testifying at his own trial, telling a different judge who advised him of his rights, “I am not going to testify.” Those words came from an interpreter, one of two people translating between English and Guyanese Creole for Armstrong.

He faces charges of murder, felony murder and robbery in connection with the drug-related fatal bludgeoning two and half years ago of Joseph Marceau, 31, of Augusta.

In a closing argument Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General John Alsop told the judge in presenting the evidence about the bloody murder, “We have glimpsed into a dark and disturbing world, a dystopia that is the result of the unseen sort of creeping apocalypse that is the scourge of heroin addiction in our state and in our times.”

“The world,” Alsop continued, “is peopled by cold-blooded drug merchants that are spreading their poisons for money and for hopelessly, morally and physically compromised and damaged addicts that dwell in the wreckage of their own lives. This is not a pretty picture.”

Two other men who pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery in Marceau’s death have fingered Armstrong as the man who administered the fatal beating in a trash-strewn, fourth-floor apartment at 75 Washington St. in Augusta.

But Armstrong, who is not a U.S. citizen but is legally in the country, should be cleared of the charges because there is no direct evidence tying him to the scene of the crime on Nov. 23, 2015, argued his defense attorney, Brad Grant.

“Most compelling is the fact that nowhere in the apartment are there any fingerprints or DNA of my client,” Grant said, suggesting that someone else murdered Marceau.

He told the judge that DNA from Michael “Dirty” McQuade, now 47, was found there and that DNA of Zina Fritze, 27, was found on the back pocket of Marceau’s pants, where he would be expected to keep his wallet. McQuade and Fritze recently had been evicted from the apartment.

Grant on Tuesday called a series of witnesses, beginning with Michelle Arbour, who testified that she lived in the adjacent apartment and heard loud banging noises that night before seeing the shadows of three people fleeing from the other apartment.

Arbour said she had heard Fritze’s voice through the kitchen wall, which was common to both apartments. However, Arbour said she could not hear what was spoken although another man who was in her apartment did.

When Grant called Justin Sawyer as a witness, however, he answered a few basic questions but then invoked his 5th Amendment right against testifying. The attorney representing him, Lisa Whittier, told the judge, “My client will be asserting his 5th Amendment privileges in this case.”

McQuade was one of those who entered the guilty pleas, and he testified last week that a group of people had plotted to rob Marceau of 5 grams of heroin he had been trying to sell. McQuade said that once the group reached his former apartment, Marceau was attacked by co-defendants Armstrong and Damik Davis. McQuade said Armstrong continued the attack even after Davis halted, eventually hog-tying Marceau and dragging him into a bedroom. Davis, who answered the door when police came to investigate the noises, fled but was arrested shortly afterward.

Prosecutors put into evidence a blood-spattered grade stick, one whose imprint was evident across Marceau’s face, abdomen and buttocks in color photographs shown during the trial.

Alsop described Marceau as “a happy-go-lucky man who has made the fatal mistake of making it known to the four of them that he’s got heroin in his pocket.”

McQuade said Armstrong initially struck Marceau across the head with a milk bottle, but Grant said there was no glass in Marceau’s hair and none seen by investigators or in photos of the scene.

McQuade said within the first 10 seconds Marceau hollered for them to “just take it,” meaning the drugs, but the beating didn’t stop.

“He was bent over,” McQuade testified. “He was being beaten down to the floor. I think he was in a crouch. They were kicking him. They were punching him. They were picking up whatever they could. There were things strewn around.”

Grant theorized that McQuade was not even at the murder scene, suggesting it was only Fritz in the apartment with Davis and Marceau.

Grant told the judge, “I just don’t understand how the testimony of McQuade can be reconciled with the lack of Aubrey’s DNA in the apartment and the lack of broken glass in the apartment.”

Alsop, in countering that argument, said, “Apparently a milk bottle was not found, but the gist of the testimony rings true, your honor.”

Alsop also pointed to a white cellphone believed to be Armstrong’s that was found outside the apartment building that night. “He dropped it there when he was running from the apartment,” Alsop said.

Alsop said there were references to “Aubrey,” to “Acon,” which Alsop said was Armstrong’s “New York moniker” and to “Aubrey1989black” (Armstrong was born in 1989) and to Armstrong’s daughter. Witnesses at trial said Armstrong was known in Maine as “Butter.”

Fritze, 27, hanged herself in jail a day after pleading not guilty to the indictment charging her with Marceau’s murder. Damik “Doughboy” Davis, 28, also of New York, and described as “muscle” for Armstrong, also pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery. He was not called to testify at Armstrong’s trial.

Plea agreements for both men indicate that if they testified truthfully they would each serve an initial 10 to 15 years of a 25-year prison term

Billings, just prior to leaving the courtroom, asked Alsop that in order to convict Armstrong of Marceau’s murder, “Doesn’t the court have to rely on the testimony of Mr. McQuade?”

“It does, your honor,” Alsop said, “and it should.”

Another witness, Kallie M. Bryant, 27, who is at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham serving a sentence for forgery, theft and trafficking in prison contraband, testified Tuesday morning that she saw McQuade and Fritze earlier on Nov. 23, 2015, and that both were “dope-sick” and trying to sell a cellphone.

Last week, Karen Lea, formerly of Augusta, and her daughter Katrina Lea, then 18, testified that at the time they were both addicted to heroin, that Armstrong and Davis were living there and selling drugs from the apartment. They also said they saw Fritze, McQuade and Armstrong climb into the Leas’ apartment that night through the window on the fire escape shortly after emergency vehicle sirens sounded in the neighborhood, and that Armstrong’s clothes had blood on them.

Lea said Armstrong had messed up his drug-dealing finances and that another dealer, Richard J. Baker, of Bronx, New York, said Armstrong would have to kill and rob somebody to make up for it.

Another witness, Amanda Ware, 31, of Sidney, testified last week that Armstrong told her he was $10,000 short.

She said she had encountered Armstrong in Augusta and in various drug deals, and recalled he used a white or silver cellphone. Ware said that a white cellphone found by investigators on the ground outside McQuade’s apartment building could be the one she saw Armstrong using. It was shown to her in a plastic evidence bag.

She also testified that she had talked with Armstrong about marijuana — which she said was his drug of choice, not hers — and that he told her “something about him being down 10 grand and he had to come up with 10 grand before going home.”

Ware pleaded guilty in March 2018 to a federal charge of using/maintaining a drug-involved premises and aiding and abetting in connection with a central Maine drug conspiracy. She is being held in the Hancock County jail pending sentencing.

She said she and her attorney had negotiated various immunity agreements about her testimony.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

Sidney P. Kilmartin, the former Windham man convicted of sending cyanide to a suicidal Englishman who used the chemical to kill himself, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison.

The bizarre case has attracted attention from legal scholars. The most serious charge on which Kilmartin was convicted was a century-old statute, “mailing injurious articles resulting in death.” U.S. District Judge John Woodcock had ruled earlier that Kilmartin could have been sentenced to life in prison under that charge.

But on Tuesday, Woodcock said he was troubled by the thought of sending Kilmartin, 56, to prison for that long a term.

“Life without any hope is quite a sentence to impose on anyone,” Woodcock said, adding that he has handed down a sentence that harsh only once, and it was mandatory for the crime in that case.

Kilmartin has a history of severe mental illness, and in 2012 he joined online chat rooms for people contemplating suicide.

In the chat rooms, Kilmartin offered to sell suicidal people cyanide, which he had obtained by posing as a goldsmith. Distribution of cyanide is tightly controlled, but is available to goldsmiths, who use it in etching.

But instead of sending cyanide, Kilmartin sent harmless Epsom salts. One “customer,” Andrew Denton of Hull, England, complained after the substance he received from Kilmartin failed to kill him and he reported Kilmartin to the FBI. Kilmartin then agreed to send Denton real cyanide and asked him to clear his computer hard drive of their correspondence. Denton took the substance and died. Prosecutors contend Kilmartin sent the cyanide because he wanted to make sure that Denton didn’t follow up on his complaints to authorities.

Tuesday’s 2½-hour hearing at U.S. District Court in Portland was a continuation of a sentencing hearing held April 27, when federal prosecutors and Kilmartin’s lawyer took longer than the time allotted to make their cases on sentencing. The case has been in federal court for more than four years.

U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank made no specific recommendation on the sentence, but asked Woodcock to impose a harsh punishment. Kilmartin’s attorney, Bruce Merrill, asked for a sentence of 10 years, arguing that his client’s mental illness resulted in him living in “an alternate reality.”

ATTORNEY PLANNING AN APPEAL

Kilmartin spoke only briefly, telling Woodcock that he was “disgusted” with himself for what he did. “It was something that was a result of my pure stupidness,” Kilmartin said, adding that “the court did me no favors when it took the death penalty off the table.”

Woodcock told him that prosecutors, not he, had decided not to seek the death penalty in the case.

Kilmartin also showed some combativeness, telling Woodcock “you can’t kill somebody who killed themselves,” countering a key finding in the conviction.

Merrill spent substantial time casting doubt on the verdict until Woodcock cut him off and said he needed to focus on factors that were to be considered in sentencing instead of trying to undercut the jury’s verdict. Merrill said he plans to appeal both the verdict and the sentence in the case.

E. James Burke, a clinical professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law, said the Kilmartin case has fascinated legal observers and noted the sentence that Woodcock ultimately imposed could have been harsher.

He said that Woodcock had ruled earlier that Kilmartin’s act was similar to second-degree murder, meaning a killing without premeditation or caused by the offender’s dangerous conduct.

OPERATING IN ‘A MORAL BLACK HELL’

Maine statute doesn’t include a second-degree murder charge, Burke said, but murder in Maine is punishable by 25 years to life.

“For causing a death, 25 years in the state of Maine for murder would be the absolute minimum,” Burke said. “It’s indisputably a heavy sentence, but if the judge felt that this is akin to second-degree murder, that’s a heavy crime.” While opting not to impose a life sentence, Woodcock said Kilmartin had preyed on a particularly vulnerable group of people.

Kilmartin hatched “a terrible scheme to defraud suicidal people and a scheme that led to the death of Andrew Denton,” Woodcock said. “Society just can’t allow a person to give a loaded gun to someone who wants to kill themselves.”

The judge called Kilmartin “intelligent and calculating,” but said his actions showed he was operating in “a moral black hell, an appalling moral vacuum.”

Edward D. Murphy can be contacted at 791-6465 or at:

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Nine people, including a pair in Kennebec County, have been arrested on felony drug charges following a months-long investigation in Aroostook County by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

MDEA Commander Darrell Crandall said Kurt Doody, 22, of Caribou, and Autumn Parady, 20, of Gardiner, but previously of Caribou, were both arrested in Augusta last week and both were charged with trafficking in fentanyl. They had relocated before the investigation was complete.

Police say the investigation, which started in late 2017, involved surveillance, interviews and undercover drug buys.

Also arrested were:

• Lucas Wynn, 31, of Presque Isle, trafficking in methamphetamine

• Scott Pelletier, 28, of Limestone, trafficking in heroin

• Tyler Cyr, 31, of Caribou, trafficking in methamphetamine

• George Tamberello, 31, of Caribou, trafficking in crack cocaine

• Brian Cyr, 36, of Caribou, trafficking in crack cocaine

• Chris Tuttle, 30, of Presque Isle, trafficking in heroin

• Nicholas Hall, 33, of Presque Isle, trafficking in heroin.

Doody remains in the Kennebec County jail; Parady has posted bail.

Drug agents are seeking three more people as part of the investigation. They are Amber Shaw, 30, and Josh Easler, 29, both of Presque Isle, and Fernando Vazquez, 41, of Springfield, Massachusetts.

These offenses are Class B crimes, which carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.

The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine State Police, the Caribou Police Department, the Presque Isle Police, the Limestone Police Department, and the Augusta Police Department helped the MDEA with the investigation and locating and arrested the suspects.

Police asked that anyone with information on the whereabouts of Easler and Shaw to call the Aroostook County Crimestoppers at 800-638-8477 or text 207-538-8477.

HALLOWELL — A small picket fence that connects two buildings in downtown Hallowell, the restaurant Slates and its affiliated bakery, was knocked over late Saturday night or early Sunday morning in what police say was a hit-and-run crash.

The wooden fence was attached to a small metal gate, which connected a small seating area in the parking lot of Slates Bakery to a tree-covered space behind the restaurant. But early Sunday, that fence appeared to have been ripped off the ground, then dragged some distance away.

“We believe someone from that parking area drove in through there,” said Hallowell Police Chief Eric Nason. “They had it kind of fenced off. There were some tables and chairs in the way, and somebody decided to go through there and hit the fence and hit some chairs and tables. Then they drove the fence up the street a little bit before it either became dislodged or they threw it away. Then they drove away.”

Early this week, the dislodged fencing was leaning against the side of the yellow restaurant building, which is on Water Street.

Nason did not know the cost to repair the damage or whether someone will be charged in connection with the crash.

“We’ve kind of canvassed the area, seeing if anybody has seen anything,” he said. “We could use some information to identify the vehicle that was involved.”

It’s at least the second time in recent months that police have investigated a hit-and-run crash that damaged property in downtown Hallowell. In mid-March, a security camera at the other end of downtown caught a truck coming down Winthrop Street and sliding into a snow bank on Water Street. The impact caused a street lamp to fall over and break a window on the front of an empty storefront.

Police have not charged anyone in connection with that crash, Nason said.

Charles Eichacker — 621-5642

ceichacker@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @ceichacker