Sanford Police are asking for the public’s help in their investigation of the death last Friday of a man struck by a car driven onto a ball field in the middle of youth baseball game.

The department released a series of images, apparently from photos or videos taken by spectators, that show different individuals who were on the field at the time. Detectives are seeking help identifying the people in the photos so they can to speak with witnesses who were standing near the vehicle when it exited the ball park.

In one photo, a man is throwing a bat at the car in an apparent attempt to district the driver, police said. Other images show people watching the vehicle crash into the gate as it leaves the park and two people standing feet away from the gate where the vehicle struck and killed 68-year-old Douglas Parkhurst of West Newfield.

Police are asking anyone who knows the individuals in the photos to contact Detective Colleen Adams at 207-324-9170 x226, or by email at cjadams@sanfordmaine.org.

Carol Sharrow, 51, is being held on $500,000 cash bail on a manslaughter charge for killing Parkhurst as she crashed the car into a gate next to the field.

Sharrow has two previous convictions for drunken driving, police said Monday morning, but authorities aren’t saying whether alcohol was a factor in the incident Friday. Sharrow also has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.

Stunned baseball players and spectators watched in disbelief as the vehicle drove onto and around the field during the game. Parkhurst was there watching his teenage grandson play and witnesses said he pushed some children out of the path of the car before he was hit.

In an unusual twist, Parkhurst had confessed five years ago to the hit-and-run death of a 4-year-old girl in Fulton, New York, in 1968. Parkhurst was never prosecuted because the statute of limitations ran out before his confession.

Relatives of the girl said news that Parkhurst had been killed by a driver in Sanford brought closure to the family.

IN ANSON, Tuesday at 8:08 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Preble Avenue.

IN BINGHAM, Tuesday at 5:02 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Main Street.

IN CANAAN, Wednesday at 3:38 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street.

IN CLINTON, Tuesday at 6:49 a.m., criminal mischief was reported on Mutton Lane.

9:24 a.m., an intoxicated person was reported on Baker Street.

Wednesday at 12:26 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Park Avenue.

IN DETROIT, Tuesday at 7:49 p.m., a smoke investigation was conducted on North Road.

IN FAIRFIELD, Tuesday at 5:28 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Osborne Court.

8:06 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Wandrup Drive.

IN JAY, Tuesday at 7:19 a.m., a smoke investigation was conducted on Main Street.

IN MADISON, Wednesday at 8:50 a.m., threatening was reported on River Road.

IN NORRIDGEWOCK, Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Old County Road.

1:36 p.m., threatening was reported on Currier Drive.

7:41 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Smithfield Road.

10:53 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Mercer Road.

IN OAKLAND, Tuesday at 5:54 p.m., harassment was reported on Fairfield Street.

10:02 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on High Street.

IN PALMYRA, Wednesday at 7:28 a.m., an assault was reported on Madawaska Road.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Tuesday at 12:32 p.m., theft was reported on North Avenue.

2:56 p.m., threatening was reported on St. Mark Street.

3:35 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Park Street.

10:04 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Patrick Street.

Wednesday at 9:23 a.m., trespassing was reported on Lynn’s Way.

IN ST. ALBANS, Tuesday at 6:29 p.m., theft was reported on Main Street.

IN WATERVILLE, Tuesday at 10:38 a.m., threatening was reported on Gilman Place.

12:19 p.m., a fire call was taken on Common Street.

12:55 p.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Pleasant Street.

1:17 p.m., an assault was reported on North Street.

2:15 p.m., a noise complaint was taken on Oakdale Street.

2:38 p.m., harassment was reported on Sherwin Street.

2:55 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Grove Street.

3 p.m., shoplifting was reported on JFK Plaza.

3:08 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Crestwood Drive.

3:47 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Grove Street.

6:42 p.m., shoplifting was reported on Kennedy Memorial Drive.

6:54 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Temple Street.

8:51 p.m., a noise complaint was taken at Pleasantdale Avenue and North Street.

10:01 p.m., a domestic dispute was reported on Water Street.

IN WILTON, Tuesday at 6:29 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Route 4.

2:15 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on U.S. Route 2.

10:50 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street.

IN WINSLOW, Tuesday at 11:10 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Randall Road.

SUMMONSES

IN WATERVILLE, Tuesday at 2:55 p.m., a 12-year-old was summoned on charges of assault and criminal mischief.

Tuesday at 8:01 p.m., Tony James Glidden, 30, of Fairfield, was summoned on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Tuesday at 8:10 a.m., Raymond Chasse, 54, of Wilton, was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief.

11 a.m., Larry Lawrence Plourde, 41, of Lewiston, was arrested on a writ.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Tuesday at 2:34 p.m., Richard Wayne Thompson, 52, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a charge of operating after habitual offender revocation.

3:57 p.m., John Whitney, 32, of Norridgewock, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and domestic violence threatening.

5:17 p.m., Joshua John Hartley, 33, of Canaan, was arrested on a warrant.

8:39 p.m., Dustin Tyler McKenney, 25, of Skowhegan, was arrested on a warrant.

Wednesday at 9:15 a.m., Todd Eric Parsons, 41, of Palmyra, was arrested on a charge of domestic violence assault.

IN AUGUSTA, Tuesday at 2:21 p.m., harassment was reported on Stone Street.

2:33 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Tall Pines Way.

2:50 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Stephen King Drive.

3:40 p.m., criminal trespass was reported on Bangor Street.

5:33 p.m., theft was reported on Riverside Drive.

7:02 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was done on Mount Vernon Avenue.

7:50 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was done on Community Drive.

8:13 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Community Drive.

10:51 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Eastern Avenue.

Wednesday at 4:16 a.m., an intoxicated person was reported on Chase Avenue.

IN GARDINER, Tuesday at 8:49 p.m., assault was reported on Prospect Street.

IN MANCHESTER, Tuesday at 8:04 a.m., harassment was reported on Meadow Hill Road.

IN MONMOUTH, Tuesday at 2:10 p.m., assault was reported on Main Street.

ARRESTS

IN AUGUSTA, Wednesday at 12:34 a.m., Alicia Marie Lutz, 27, of Augusta, was arrested on a warrant, on Green Street.

Speed and alcohol are believed to be likely factors in a motor vehicle crash Sunday in South China that sent one man to the hospital by helicopter, police said.

Boivin O’Neal, 54, of Windsor, was traveling south from China toward Windsor in a 2008 Chevrolet pickup truck when he failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway, left the road and struck a tree, said Sgt. Patrick Hood, of the Maine State Police.

O’Neal suffered injuries that required him to be flown from the scene by LifeFlight helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, though a spokeswoman there said Wednesday she did not have any record of O’Neal having been treated at the hospital.

Evidence observed at the scene suggested both speed and alcohol were likely factors in the crash, Hood said.

No charges have been filed at this point and the case remains under investigation.

Firefighters from China and Weeks Mills and Delta Ambulance also responded to the scene.

Rachel Ohm — 612-2368

rohm@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @rachel_ohm

AUGUSTA — A pair from Vassalboro were arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly trying to sell heroin in the parking lot of Home Depot in Augusta and violating bail conditions by being in each other’s company, authorities said.

A man charged in the incident told authorities “drugs were in his crotch area” and he removed his pants, revealing bags of drugs, police allege.

Christa Pauley, 30, and Olin Charette, 61, were charged with unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, a class B felony, and multiple counts of violating conditions of release, according to court documents. Police also charged Pauley and Charette with conspiracy to commit unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, a class C felony.

At the same time, a third person, Michael “Ben” Seegars, 20, of New York, also was arrested on a charge of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. He was present when police confronted Pauley and Charette, and a drug-sniffing dog helped officers find crack cocaine and heroin that he allegedly had hidden in his pants, according to court documents.

Police arrested Pauley and Charette after following them during a car ride from Vassalboro to Augusta, according to a probable cause affidavit filed at the Capital Judicial Center.

Charette and Pauley then reportedly drove farther south on back roads into Hallowell and Farmingdale before returning to Augusta and going to the Home Depot parking lot.

As members of the Maine Drug Enforcement Administration watched, Pauley allegedly left her car and got into a white pickup truck with two occupants, said Jonathan Richards, a member of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, in the affidavit. One of those occupants was Seegars.

Agents then approached the truck and saw “that Pauley was making a lot of fast moves with her hands as was the person seated in the center of the vehicle,” Richards said.

After Pauley and Charette left the vehicles, the agents told them they were conducting a bail check. They then found two bags of heroin that fell from a pocket in Pauley’s sweatshirt, according to Richards.

Charette and Pauley had prior drug trafficking charges and had been released from jail on the condition that they not contact each other, according to Richards.

“I asked (Charette) why they were together,” Richards said in the affidavit. “(H)e told me that he loves her.”

During that stop, a member of the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office also arrived at the scene with a drug-sniffing dog. The dog allegedly signaled that Seegars had drugs on his body, according to the affidavit.

After Seegars “stated that the drugs were in his crotch area,” he was taken to another section of the parking lot, where he removed his pants and allegedly produced “multiple baggies of crack and heroin,” Richards said.

Charette, Pauley, and Seegars were taken to the Kennebec County jail and made their initial court appearances on Wednesday afternoon at the Capital Judicial Center via a video feed.

Afterward, Pauley was being held in lieu of $7,500 bail, Charette was being held in lieu of $5,000 bail, and Seegars was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Charles Eichacker — 621-5642

ceichacker@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @ceichacker

AUGUSTA — A 47-year-old woman wanted on a murder charge from New York was arrested in Augusta last week.

Yashonia Michele Davis, who is listed as having addresses in Augusta and in Bronx, New York, is being held without bail at the Kennebec County jail.

At a court hearing Friday via video from the jail, she contested extradition back to New York, and her next hearing is set for June 26 at the Capital Judicial Center.

Maine authorities learned recently that Davis, who also is known as Michelle Davis and Monique MacFaline, and Edward E. Evans, 29, were wanted in connection with a recent homicide in Bronx, New York, and were believed to be in Maine.

Davis was stopped May 30 on Pierce Drive in Augusta by members of the Maine Violent Offender Task Force, according to a court affidavit by Maine State Trooper David Alexander.

Davis is wanted in connection with the slaying of Abraham Caraballo, 52, of Bronx Park South, according to information from the New York Police Department’s Public Information Office.

Caraballo died of wounds May 8 in Saint Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, New York, police say. Police responded to a 911 call on April 21 at an apartment at 946 Bronx Park South and found Caraballo in a hallway “unconscious and unresponsive with a laceration and trauma to his head,” as well as a 57-year woman “with a laceration and trauma to her head.”

The woman, who was taken to the same hospital, was listed in stable condition.

A warrant for Davis’s arrest was authorized May 30 by Judge Jeffrey M. Zimmerman. Davis is charged with murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

The man accused of killing a Somerset County Sheriff’s deputy took a bottle of water and a pack of Old Gold cigarettes when he robbed a Norridgewock convenience store the night Cpl. Eugene Cole was slain, according to a newly released 911 transcript.

The transcript, released Wednesday by the Office of the Maine Attorney General, describes the phone call that helped spur the four-day manhunt for John Williams, who has been charged with murder in Cole’s fatal shooting in Norridgewock on April 25.

Williams, 29, was carrying a gun when he robbed the Cumberland Farms in Norridgewock before fleeing in Cole’s pickup truck, according to the transcript.

“Umm, the kid just come in here and I … he wanted Old Gold, I grabbed it, he grabbed it out of my hand,” said the female store clerk who called 911 early that morning. “He had a water and he was driving a sheriff’s ahh, pickup truck and he had a gun.”

The woman described a short, thin man in his late 20s who she said was a regular customer at the store.

“He came in and grabbed the water and like I said, I know, well not know him, but he comes in here all the time,” the clerk said.

She said Williams was driving a white pickup with the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office logo on the side and 1312 – Cole’s call number – on the license plate.

She recognized the truck because it had stopped at the convenience store for gas earlier that night and because it was the same one driven by “the older sheriff guy who patrols around here and has a son here also.”

Cole was a 13-year veteran of the sheriff’s office. His son David Cole works as a deputy for the sheriff’s office.

“They said it had 1312 on it,” the dispatcher said. “Do we have 1312? COM 1312? 1311? Yeah, she’s reporting that it said 1312 on the plate and we’re having negative contact with 12. Which … Ma’am which way did he go?”

The clerk said Williams took off fast and appeared to be headed toward Smithfield. The dispatcher told her to lock the door and that police would be on their way to the store.

Cole was found dead from a single gunshot wound outside a home on Mercer Road on April 25.

Williams was arrested April 28 outside a camp in Fairfield, in part of a wooded area that was searched by around 200 law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies after the robbery.

Police have not offered a motive for the killing. Though Cole was involved in the arrest of Williams’ girlfriend on drug charges just a few days before the murder, a previously released police affidavit suggested it was a moment of happenstance between Cole and Williams, who was on edge about a court appearance in Massachusetts on firearm charges.

John D. Williams, the man charged in the killing of a police officer, took a bottle of water and a pack of Old Gold cigarettes when he robbed a Norridgewock convenience store the night of Cpl. Eugene Cole’s murder, according to a newly released 911 transcript.

The transcript, released Wednesday by the Office of the Maine Attorney General, describes the phone call that helped spur the four-day manhunt for Williams, who is accused of shooting and killing Cole on April 25 in Norridgewock.

According to the transcript, Williams was carrying a gun when he robbed the Cumberland Farms in Norridgewock before fleeing in Cole’s pickup truck.

“Umm, the kid just come in here and I… he wanted Old Gold, I grabbed it, he grabbed it out of my hand,” said a female store clerk who called 911 early that morning. “He had a water and he was driving a Sheriff’s ahh, pickup truck and he had a gun.”

The woman described a short, thin man in his late 20s who she said came into the store all the time, though she didn’t know his name.

“He came in and grabbed the water and like I said, I know, well not know him, but he comes in here all the time,” the clerk said.

She said Williams was driving a white pickup truck with the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office logo on the side and 1312 — Cole’s call number — on the license plate.

She said she recognized the truck because it had stopped at the convenience store for gas earlier in the night and because it was the same one driven by “the older sheriff guy who patrols around here and has a son here also.”

Cole, a 13-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, also had a son, David Cole, who works as a deputy for the sheriff’s office.

“They said it had 1312 on it,” the dispatcher said. “Do we have 1312? COM 1312? 1311? Yeah, she’s reporting that it said 1312 on the plate and we’re having negative contact with 12. Which … Ma’am which way did he go?”

The clerk said Williams took off fast and appeared to be headed toward Smithfield. The dispatcher told her to lock the door and that police would be on their way to the store.

Williams, 29, faces a charge of murder in the killing of Cole, who was found dead from a single gunshot wound April 25 outside a home on Mercer Road.

Williams was arrested April 28 outside a camp in Fairfield, in part of a wooded area that was searched by around 200 law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies after the robbery.

Police have not offered a motive for the killing. Though Cole was involved in the arrest of Williams’ girlfriend on drug charges just a few days before the murder, a previously released police affidavit suggested it was a moment of happenstance between Cole and Williams, who was on edge about a court appearance in Massachusetts on firearm charges.

Rachel Ohm — 612-2368

rohm@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @rachel_ohm

A Winslow man has been summoned on a theft charge after allegedly stealing $400 from the dispenser of a Waterville ATM as a customer was finishing a transaction, police said.

Aaron Rockafellow, 27, is charged with theft and is scheduled to appear in court July 17, according to Waterville police Sgt. David Caron.

On Friday, Rockafellow allegedly stole $400 from a woman at the Camden National Bank ATM on Front Street as she was completing a transaction from her vehicle.

He then ran across the Two Cent Bridge from Waterville into Winslow, where he escaped in a vehicle that had been parked on the Winslow side of the bridge, Caron said.

He said police were able to identify the vehicle with the help of witnesses.

It is possible the victim will be able to recover the money through the court system, Caron said.

He said the ATM on Front Street is generally a safe area, but people should be cautious and aware of their surroundings anytime they use an ATM.

Rachel Ohm — 612-2368

rohm@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @rachel_ohm

AUGUSTA — A father whose 2-year-old son was rescued from drowning in the Kennebec River in September 2016 successfully has completed a deferred disposition, and a charge of endangering the welfare of a child dismissed.

Christopher J. Norwood, 33, of Augusta, had to complete a parenting course, among requirements set by the court, in order to be free of the charge.

His son was rescued by Sean Scanlon, of Dresden, who was alerted to the child’s predicament by screams from people on the west side of the river. The boy, wearing a hoodie and a diaper, was floating face down with his rear end in the air.

District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said Wednesday she was not allowed to comment on any Department of Health and Human Services case.

“I am pleased that (Norwood) complied with the conditions in the deferred disposition and that he took those conditions seriously: the parenting class; completing the Prime for Life class, which teaches about the effects of marijuana on himself and his family, including the impact of second-hand smoke; and getting his medical marijuana card so that he would have doctor’s oversight on the amount of marijuana,” she said.

Maloney said the investigation revealed that Norwood was in his apartment and thought the child was napping and had not realized he had left.

The day of the incident, Scanlon jumped into the river at the East Side Boat Landing and swam a few seconds until reaching the boy.

“He was blue in the face and his whole body was turning blue, and I knew he wasn’t breathing,” Scanlon said a day after the rescue. “I didn’t hesitate and I didn’t think. I was bringing that kid in one way or the other.”

Scanlon turned the boy face-up and carried him to shore while patting his back attempting to get the boy to cough up any water he might have swallowed. He carried the boy up to where emergency responders could reach him.

The charge against Norwood was filed Sept. 27, 2016, after Augusta police investigated the near-drowning.

Then-Deputy Chief Jared Mills said Norwood was “at a location far enough away that he could not provide the proper care to ensure the safety of a 2-year-old child.” Mills also said the boy was doing well after being rescued, and that the state Department of Health and Human Services was involved in the investigation and working to ensure the safety of the boy.

Norwood had pleaded guilty June 6, 2017, to the child endangerment charge under the Alford doctrine, indicating — as the judge explained — that while he does not agree with the state’s version of events, a jury or fact-finder hearing the evidence could find him guilty of the charge.

However, under an agreement with the state that the judge approved, the case was continued for a year to allow time for Norwood to complete various requirements. Success meant he could withdraw that plea and the case would be dismissed. If he was unsuccessful, he risked being sentenced up to 364 days in prison.

Attempts to reach Norwood on Wednesday through a cellphone number and through Facebook were unsuccessful. Shortly after the rescue, he released a statement through his attorney, thanking those who helped his son and asking people to reserve judgment about the incident.

In court a year ago, Norwood’s attorney, Scott Hess, told Justice William Stokes that the event was “a mistake my client feels terrible about.” Hess said Norwood believes he did not “recklessly endanger” the health, safety or welfare of a child, as the statute is phrased. Hess did not respond to calls for comment Wednesday.

The state Department of Health and Human Services was involved in the case and the child was released from the hospital to a safe location not with his parents.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office is blaming a crash on Route 1 in Woolwich on road rage.

Sheriff’s deputies, Wiscasset police and first responders were called to the crash near the Wiscasset town line just after 8 a.m. Wednesday.

The crash involved two northbound cars, a 2012 Nissan driven by 25-year-old Brittany O’Kelly, of Bath, and a 2004 Mazda driven by a 17-year-old girl from Damariscotta, according to a social media post by the sheriff’s office.

Neither driver was injured.

“The investigation of the crash determined that this was a road-rage type of incident,” the sheriff’s office said.

As a result, O’Kelly was cited for driving to endanger and the 17-year-old driver was cited for following too closely.

Traffic was held up for about half an hour.

Dispatch records indicate police had twice responded to calls in recent months about the behavior and school-shooting-related statements by Brandon Luzzi, who lives at 106 Thomaston St., above, in Rockland. There is no indication in the records of what followed the police response to the calls or what police may have done.

Two people called Rockland police to report statements a local man made about school shootings and guns in the months before he triggered a districtwide school lockdown last week, dispatch records show.

A friend of Brandon Luzzi told a police dispatcher that Luzzi said he “lives in a house across from this school where another guy went crazy, and I have guns.”

Brandon Luzzi, 62, of Thomaston Street continues to undergo mental health evaluation and treatment and has not been charged with a crime. He allegedly told a friend that he heard voices in his head telling him to “do a school shooting.” The friend notified police the morning of May 29, prompting the lockdown at schools in Rockland and in surrounding communities, while officers confronted and detained Luzzi. After obtaining a search warrant, police seized seven guns, mostly hunting weapons, from his home, along with various types of ammunition.

A review of police dispatch records obtained by the Portland Press Herald through a public records request showed that it wasn’t the first time he had mentioned his paranoid feelings, firearms and school shootings.

The first call came Sept. 14, 2017, from Joseph Dady, who identified himself as a friend of Luzzi’s.

“Brandon acts paranoid frequently, but today stated that he ‘lives in a house across from this school where another guy went crazy, and I have guns,'” Dady told a dispatcher, according to the records.

The dispatcher assigned the call to Rockland Police Officer John Bagley at 11:25 a.m. Bagley responded and cleared the scene 35 minutes later.

Police have previously indicated they had contact with Luzzi, but had declined to describe the nature of the calls. The dispatch information provides a window into the contact police had with Luzzi before he was taken into custody.

In the second call, which was received April 20, 2018, at 11:01 a.m., someone from the Rockland Red Cross reported a string of disturbing statements by Luzzi.

“Brandon Luzzi has been making statements about being exposed to wave radar and hears voices,” according to a description contained in the dispatch records. “Talked about devices implanted. Has mentioned something about school shooting – software to induce one. Would like to speak to an officer about this.”

Rockland Police Officer Andrew Redden responded.

‘VERY RECEPTIVE’ TO TREATMENT

There is no indication in the records of what followed the calls or what actions police took in response.

Luzzi’s mother, Chevala DeLorenze, said she was unaware of the previous reports about her son, but that upon hearing the reports, she said it seemed to verify the police version of events – that he was hearing voices.

DeLorenze said she spoke with Luzzi this week, and that he is still at Pen Bay Medical Center, where he is cooperating with doctors as they try therapy and medication.

“I can’t tell you how much better he sounds,” DeLorenze said. “They’re trying medications and he’s very receptive and up to that.”

Luzzi has not been charged with a crime, but he remains hospitalized and could face one count of felony terrorizing if he is released, police have said. Any decision about whether to charge him will fall to the Knox County district attorney.

There had been other, earlier calls, as well, involving Luzzi’s address, but none seemed to point to behavior connected to his alleged school threat.

In one 2016 call, Luzzi phoned police to report he was having a disagreement with a “lady friend” who refused to leave his house and was insisting that she sleep in a spare bedroom. No officers were dispatched.

In another call in 2016, it appeared that Luzzi reported a case of suspected criminal mischief.

In two instances, Luzzi showed up at the police station, first in November 2016, and asked to speak to an officer about something personal. He again appeared at the police station in 2017 and asked to make out a victim report.

In both of those cases, no further information was provided, and portions of the records that may have categorized the calls were redacted.

ELEVEN OFFICERS FANNED OUT TO SCHOOLS

On the morning of the lockdown after police received the tip from another friend of Luzzi’s about the threats he allegedly made, at least 11 police officers were scrambled to the area’s schools.

Once the security was in place, Bagley, the Rockland officer, approached Luzzi’s home and spoke with him in his front yard.

Luzzi told Bagley about the voices and that he had at least one hunting rifle in the house, but said “he is able to keep the voices at bay and is of no harm to anyone,” according to a search warrant affidavit filed in connection with the case.

Luzzi tried to go back into his house, but police took him into protective custody. Police entered Luzzi’s home after obtaining the search warrant, finding seven firearms, a flare gun and ammunition.

Officers seized a Marlin model 60 semi-automatic rifle, an H&R 16-gauge shotgun, a Browning 0.30-06 rifle, a Savage 110CJ .270-caliber rifle, a Weatherby Mark 5 .30-06 rifle, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, a Winchester model 94 rifle and an orange flare gun. The weapons are being kept at the Rockland Police Department.

Matt Byrne can be contacted at 791-6303 or at:

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IN AUGUSTA, Wednesday at 10:01 a.m., a sex offense was reported by a caller on Greenlief Street.

11:15 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Cony Street.

11:36 a.m., a mental health and well-being check was done on Eastern Avenue.

11:42 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Water Street.

11:44 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Oak Street.

12:20 p.m., simple assault was reported on Green Street.

12:47 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Water Street.

3:09 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Civic Center Drive.

4:19 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Howard Street.

4:19 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was done on Glenridge Drive.

4:32 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Winthrop Street.

5:35 p.m., a mental health and well-being check was done on Glenridge Drive.

6:52 p.m. a domestic disturbance was reported on Glenridge Drive.

7:22 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Child Street.

7:33 p.m., a traffic accident involving injury was reported on South Belfast Avenue.

7:59 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Bridge Street.

8:07 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Glenridge Drive.

8:39 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Washington Street.

9:38 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Glenridge Drive.

9:39 p.m., criminal mischief was reported on Bangor Street.

10:44 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Cedar Street.

10:50 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Glenridge Drive.

11:40 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Ridge Road.

Thursday at 1:02 a.m., simple assault was reported on Gage Street.

IN MANCHESTER, Thursday at 12:56 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Readfield Road.

ARREST

IN HALLOWELL, Wednesday at 7:41 p.m., Henri Robert Guite, 38, of Fairfield, was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle without a license and operating while license was suspended or revoked, during a traffic stop on Water and Maple streets.

SUMMONS

IN AUGUSTA, Wednesday at 6:46 p.m., Shawn Gagne, 44, of Augusta, was summoned on a charge of criminal trespass, on Washington Street.

Maine’s new electronic court filing system will be available to the public for a fee, the state’s top judge said Thursday.

Maine Chief Justice Leigh Saufley said the new electronic court filing system will allow remote access to court documents, such as schedules, motions and decisions.

The Supreme Judicial Court was about to hold a public hearing Thursday morning on the $15 million system when Chief Justice Leigh Saufley said the court had already decided the matter. The system will allow prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges to file documents online and the public will have access via the internet. Details, including fees for accessing documents, are still to be determined.

Saufley said some documents that are currently off-limits to the public, such as divorces involving children and many juvenile matters, will remain off-limits. Saufley said the new system will allow remote access to court documents, such as schedules, motions and decisions.

“This is good news for transparency in our court system and a better-informed public,” said Cliff Schechtman, executive editor of the Portland Press Herald.

Schechtman, other media representatives and the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition were in Augusta to testify before the high court to urge that the new system be accessible to the public. Many were surprised that Saufley opened the meeting by announcing that the system would be “internet-based” and largely open to the public.

The decision “is great news and a good thing for the public and everyone who is concerned with an open, transparent and accountable court system,” said Sigmund D. Schutz, an attorney and board member of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition.

He said his organization and others will now focus on details of the plan for the new filing system. Saufley indicated that rules will be proposed by fall and the public will be given an opportunity to comment. She also suggested that the court might make some recommendations to the Legislature about whether to expand the categories of documents that are confidential in court files.

“We need to make sure that line is drawn in the right place,” Schutz said.

Ilse Teeters-Trumpy, a family law lawyer who was a member of the advisory task force, said there was great concern about privacy by the members of the group.

Teeters-Trumpy said she hadn’t seen Saufley’s comments and declined to comment on her decision. But she explained the task force’s recommendation, noting the difference between accessing court documents online from a home or office, and going to a courthouse to review them.

“We felt the potential for abuse was greater (with online access) than if someone were forced to go out in public to the courthouse,” she said. Although many family law matters are confidential, she said, issues like financial and health matters are sometimes referred to in public filings and the task force wanted to make sure they were shielded.

Teeters-Trumpy said lawyers might ask judges to seal more documents to preserve privacy if the public is allowed internet access to court filings.

The state signed a contract to install a new electronic system with Tyler Technologies in 2016 and it is expected to take years to fully roll out. A task force formed to study access to the system recommended last year that remote public access should be limited to dockets – the lists of cases that are ongoing in the courts. The task force recommended forcing the public to travel to a courthouse to see documents associated with cases, a decision overruled by the court, according to Saufley’s announcement Thursday.

The public can access most documents filed in federal courts via PACER, an internet-based system that tracks cases in all federal courts. Users generally have to set up an account. Fees charged to access documents are typically 10 cents a page, but that fee is usually capped at $3 for documents that contain more than 30 pages.

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

emurphy@pressherald.com

LEWISTON — Police said a bank branch was robbed Wednesday by a man who handed a teller a note saying he was armed and who then fled on a bicycle.

Keith Anthony Phillips, 57, of Lewiston, was arrested without incident within an hour at a Pierce Street apartment, police said.

He was charged with robbery and was being held Wednesday night on $20,000 cash bail at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.

Police said no weapon was seen during the robbery at the Androscoggin Bank branch on Lisbon Street at about noon. An undisclosed amount of money was taken.

The robbery charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Police officers, detectives and agents from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Central Maine Violent Crimes Task Force, the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and local police departments coordinated in the search for the suspect.

SKOWHEGAN — A proposed repeal of a ban on fireworks sales in Skowhegan, a draft sex offender residency ordinance, and other proposed town ordinances and policies are set for a vote Monday at Town Meeting.

The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Skowhegan Opera House on Water Street.

On the fireworks issue, voters will be asked to repeal the sales ban currently in place.

Town Manager Christine Almand said the town follows state law on the use of fireworks but banned the sale in a referendum vote in 2012. She said the question in 2012 was worded in “a three-way split,” which might have confused voters, and that 60 percent of residents did not want a complete ban on fireworks sales.

Under that rule, residents could buy fireworks in neighboring towns and shoot them off in Skowhegan, but the town didn’t get any economic benefit from sales elsewhere.

The Legislature permitted the sale and use of consumer fireworks — not commercial-grade used by licensed companies — in January 2012, ending a 63-year statewide ban; but it was up to communities to decide whether they wanted to regulate them further. Maine law does not allow anyone under 21 to buy, sell, possess or use fireworks. Legal fireworks include those certified by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, such as certain firecrackers, morning glories, Roman candles and flaming fountains.

On the sex offender residency restrictions question, rules of residence would apply to anyone convicted of a felony class A, B or C sex offense against someone who had not yet turned 14 years old, whether the offense occurred in Maine or elsewhere.

A convicted sex offender, under the ordinance, could not live, rent or own a home within 750 feet of a public or private elementary, middle or secondary school or any of the “safe zones” in Skowhegan. Safe zones are public parks, athletic fields or recreational facilities.

Safe zones in Skowhegan are Bucky Quinn Field on South Factory Street, Pat Quinn Ball Field on East Maple Street, Memorial Field on East Maple Street, Carl Wright Ball Fields at the Community Center and Lake George Regional Park on U.S. Route 2, at the Canaan town line.

Voters also will be asked to act on a Skowhegan building safety ordinance, which would update the current International Building Codes adopted by the state.

In the Special Amusement Ordinance proposal, the town would address a state law that no longer requires cities and towns to issue special amusement permits.

“This is an amendment just to remove the necessity for a permit when you have music on premise where alcohol is sold. You can have a radio, but if you’re going to have live music, you needed a permit,” Almand said. “This would remove the necessity of a permit, so it saves the businesses money by not having to pay for a permit or the advertising for the permit.”

There also is a question on the Monday warrant to address licensing requirements pertaining to pawnbrokers and secondhand precious metal dealers and to establish a schedule of fees for construction or business applications, licenses and permit fees in Skowhegan.

Permits are required for stores such as jewelry shops, based on an addition in 2013 to the pawnbrokers’ law. The permit fee would be $55. Reporting transactions to police, as is required, would be flexible within a 15-day window to ensure quick turnover if market prices suddenly drop.

Skowhegan residents also will be asked whether the town should buy a 30-foot-wide public easement from the Skowhegan Economic Development Corp. for $15,000 around the downtown site of the former Kennebec Valley Inn and whether to authorize selectmen to buy a piece of property for a price not to exceed $55,000 as the future site of a combined public safety building on East Madison Road.

Doug Harlow — 612-2367

dharlow@centralmaine.com

Twitter:@Doug_Harlow

IN ANSON, Wednesday at 6:35 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Front Street.

IN BINGHAM, Wednesday at 11:02 a.m., a domestic disturbance was investigated on Murray Street.

IN CANAAN, Wednesday at 9:52 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Hinckley Road.

IN CHESTERVILLE, Thursday at 6:52 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Sand Pond Road.

6:58 a.m., a disturbance was reported on East Shore Drive.

IN FAIRFIELD, Wednesday at 11:42 a.m., threatening was investigated on West Street.

5:46 p.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Main Street.

8 p.m., a scam complaint was taken on Burrill Street.

10:04 p.m., an arrest was made after a disturbance on Main Street.

Thursday at 12:38 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Main Street.

7:53 a.m., an intoxicated person was reported on Main Street.

IN FARMINGTON, Wednesday at 12:49 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Meadow Brook Heights.

8:57 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Wilton Road.

Thursday at 1:04 a.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Main Street.

IN JAY, Wednesday at 7:20 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Intervale Road.

8:12 p.m., disturbance was reported on Intervale Road.

Thursday at 12:24 a.m., suspicious activity was reported on Main Street.

1:01 a.m., an assault was reported on Pleasant Drive.

IN MADISON, Thursday at 12:38 a.m., trespassing was investigated on Preble Avenue.

IN MOSCOW, Wednesday at 8:02 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Stream Road.

IN NEW SHARON, Wednesday at 5:51 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Farmington Falls Road.

IN OAKLAND, Wednesday at 12:35 p.m., a theft was investigated on Main Street.

IN PITTSFIELD, Wednesday at 10:51 a.m., a theft was investigated on Somerset Avenue.

IN RANGELEY, Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Carry Road.

IN RANGELEY PLANTATION, Wednesday at 9:44 p.m., a report of a missing person was taken on South Shore Drive.

IN SKOWHEGAN, Wednesday at 11:37 a.m., threatening was investigated on Dartmouth Street.

2:10 p.m., trespassing was investigated on Indian Ridge.

2:46 p.m., threatening was investigated on Family Circuit.

6:38 p.m., a theft was investigated on Water Street.

7:13 p.m., an assault was investigated on McClellan Street.

IN SMITHFIELD, Wednesday at 12:06 p.m., a harassment complaint was investigated on Village Road.

IN STRONG, Wednesday at 11:26 a.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Farmington Road.

1:13 p.m., trespassing was reported on Farmington Road.

IN WATERVILLE, Wednesday at 7 a.m., threatening was reported on Water Street.

8:43 a.m., suspicious activity was investigated at Head of Falls on Front Street.

10:43 a.m., an accident involving an injury was reported on Washington Street.

12:19 p.m., a theft was investigated on Silver Street.

12:42 p.m., a harassment was reported on Sherwin Street.

2:40 p.m., a theft was reported on College Avenue.

2:50 p.m., a burglary was investigated at the Boys and Girls Club on Main Place.

2:58 p.m., an unwanted person was reported at the Hannaford supermarket on Elm Plaza.

3:47 p.m., an assault was investigated on Brooklyn Avenue.

4:25 p.m., sex offenses were investigated on College Avenue.

5:39 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on The Concourse.

5:45 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Eustis Parkway.

6:17 p.m., a theft was investigated on Green Street.

6:37 p.m., a noise complaint was taken on King Court.

7:55 p.m., a harassment complaint was taken on Dalton Street.

7:59 p.m., a theft was investigated on Mayflower Hill Drive.

8:44 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Carver Street.

10:10 p.m., a drug offense was investigated on Green Street.

10:22 p.m., a noise complaint was investigated on Oakland Street.

IN WINSLOW, Wednesday at 3:25 p.m., a report of fraud was taken on Benton Avenue.

5:44 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Clifford Avenue.

8:02 p.m., an assault was investigated on Bellevue Street.

9:31 p.m., suspicious activity was investigated on Lithgow Street.

11:53 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Monument Street.

11:55 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Paine Street and Clifford Avenue.

11:56 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on St. John and South Garand streets.

IN WILTON, Wednesday at 7:43 p.m., a theft was reported on Depot Street.

Thursday at 7:14 a.m., a vehicle accident involving an injury was reported on U.S. Route 2.

ARRESTS

IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, Wednesday at 2:30 p.m., Bridget M. Daku, 45, of Farmington, was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief.

8:52 p.m., Randi Lynn Sencabaugh, 34, of Jay, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, loud unreasonable noise.

IN SOMERSET COUNTY, Wednesday at 10:07 a.m., Marion Louis Parsons, 48, of Palmyra, was arrested on charges of violating a protection order and possession of hypodermic apparatuses.

6:22 p.m., Curtis D. Snyder, 26, of Augusta, was arrested on a probation hold and warrants for unpaid fines and failure to appear on a charge of domestic violence terrorizing.

8:44 p.m., Scott A. Boardman, 53, of Palm Coast, Florida, was arrested on a charge of violating conditions of release.

10:59 p.m., Kimberly A. Parker, 55, of Skowhegan, was arrested on warrants for unpaid fines and failure to appear on a charge of operating under the influence.

IN WATERVILLE, Wednesday at 9:06 a.m., Richard Hildreth, 62, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant.

9:06 a.m., Randall Cook, 63, of Waterville, was arrested on a warrant.

10:36 p.m., Marc J. Mizzoni, 39, of Waterville, was arrested on a charge of violating condition of release.

SUMMONSES

IN WATERVILLE, Wednesday at 4:34 p.m., Patricia D. Uhlman, 49, Wilton, was summoned on a charge of theft by deception.

9:33 p.m., Barbara S. Girard, 50, of Waterville, was summoned on a charge of operating while license suspended or revoked.

AUGUSTA — For the first time since killing and dismembering his father four years ago, Leroy Smith III is eligible for a glimpse of the world outside a state institution.

A judge has approved a request by Smith to be absent from Riverview Psychiatric Center for up to three hours at a time with one-to-one supervision by the hospital staff and with strict conditions.

The order, issued Wednesday and made available in court Thursday, follows a hearing last month at the Capital Judicial Center.

In September 2017, Smith was found not criminally responsible for manslaughter in the slaying of 56-year-old Leroy Smith II on May 3, 2014, in their Gardiner apartment. He was put in the custody of the commission of the Department of Health and Human Services and placed at Riverview for treatment.

The younger Smith, who has been held at the state hospital since several days after the slaying, claimed his father was trying to poison him by putting d-CON in his food, so he had to act first.

Under Justice William Stokes’ order, Smith’s time outside Riverview is “to be implemented incrementally at the discretion” of the Riverview staff.

It limits Smith geographically to a 5-mile radius of the state hospital in Augusta and requires “that prior to any community activities, he must have a careful nursing assessment, particularly focusing on possible presence of any significant anxiety and/or agitation.”

In addition, Smith and any of his belongings “should be thoroughly searched after each community trip,” according to the order.

As with other patients in the custody of the commissioner, Smith must petition the court for changes in the conditions under which he is held, and petitions for may be submitted every six months.

Smith’s attorney, Scott Hess, said Thursday that Smith did not testify at the May 18 hearing. “The State Forensic Service and Riverview were in support of the plan,” Hess said in an email.

Stokes’ order makes it clear that if Smith violates the treatment plan order, flees Riverview or gives probable cause to believe he has committed a crime, the off-grounds privileges are revoked and the violation must be reported within 48 hours to the court, the State Forensic Service, defense counsel and the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

At a January 2016 hearing when he was found incompetent to stand trial, Smith told a judge that his lawyers had failed to represent him properly and that a gun was held to his head in 2011 in an incident somehow involving the heavy metal band Slayer. “I had a gun held against my head and was sworn to keep secret about what I am,” he said, adding, “The whole entire group Slayer was there.” At one point in the case, Smith also claimed to be a political prisoner.

Forensic psychologists have said that Smith was suffering from delusions.

Under a 2015 law, Smith was the first person in Maine to be forced to take psychiatric medication in an effort to restore his mental capacity to be able to participate fully in his defense.

“He has a belief that, starting many years back, that he was destined to be a famous rock star; he was destined to be educated by well-known guitarists,” a clinical psychologist, Peter Donnelly testified in June 2016 at a court hearing.

Donnelly said that Smith has said he is the God of the kingdom of heaven, Icarus, and that at a Phish concert people put a gun to his head, that there was an affiliation with Slayer and Slipknot, both thrash metal bands, and that Smith was warned somehow that his father was going to poison him with rat poison.

However, Donnelly also said at that point, “There’s been an absence of the more grandiose aspects of his delusions since he started his medications.”

Police say Smith stabbed his father to death, dismembered the body and distributed body parts in trash bags in a rural area off Lincoln Street in Richmond.

Smith told police he stabbed his father in the head and neck and then used three knives to “dismember his father” — a Ginsu knife and an Asian-style knife and an unidentified third weapon, according to an affidavit filed in court. The state medical examiner found that the elder Smith was stabbed to death, saying he died of “sharp force trauma,” according to investigators.

Smith was arrested in Westbrook two days after the slaying. He told officers at the Cumberland County jail he had killed his father and “filleted him and buried him in the woods because his dad sexually assaulted him his whole life,” according to an affidavit by Maine State Police Detective Jonah O’Roak. There was no evidence of any sexual assault committed by Smith’s father.

After the insanity plea, one of Smith’s lawyers, Pam Ames, said that even after treatment involving medication, Smith continues to believe his father would have killed him if he had not struck first.

“He knows what he did but has a subjective belief his father tried to kill him with rat poison,” Ames said outside the courtroom. “He honestly felt, in his mind, if he did not kill his father, his father would kill him.”

The elder Smith lived in fear of his son and knew he suffered from mental illness, Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber said at the time of the plea.

Friends had described the elder Smith as helpful, friendly, and a passionate musician skilled in carpentry and mechanical work, and said he was trying to help his son with his troubles.

Attorneys for both sides agreed early that Smith was legally insane at the time of the slaying. Smith, however, maintained he was not.

Leroy Smith III had been banned in the fall of 2013 from his apartment building in Westborough, Massachusetts, after he started to upset other tenants and the landlord, Westborough police Chief Alan Gordon said shortly after the younger Smith’s arrest in the Maine slaying.

At one point, Smith set his guitar and amplifier on fire in the backyard because “he believed they were emitting evil music,” Gordon said.

The younger Smith was served with a protection from harassment order on Oct. 29, 2013, and violated it a day later, Gordon said. The town’s court issued a warrant for his arrest when Smith failed to show up for his court date.

At some point after the initial protection order was issued, the Secret Service contacted police to say they wanted to question Smith about threats he allegedly made against the president, and Gordon said the FBI had launched an investigation into the allegation.

Gordon said Smith “thought he was God,” a claim he repeated frequently on his Facebook page, which includes a picture of the burned out guitar and amplifier and numerous rambling, profanity-laced entries that describe, among other things, a deep paranoia about the government.

Betty Adams — 621-5631

badams@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @betadams

LEWISTON — Police said a bank branch was robbed Wednesday by a man who handed a teller a note saying he was armed and who then fled on a bicycle.

Keith Anthony Phillips, 57, of Lewiston, was arrested without incident within an hour at a Pierce Street apartment, police said.

He was charged with robbery and was being held Wednesday night on $20,000 cash bail at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.

Police said no weapon was seen during the robbery at the Androscoggin Bank branch on Lisbon Street at about noon. An undisclosed amount of money was taken.

The robbery charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Police officers, detectives and agents from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Central Maine Violent Crimes Task Force, the FBI Safe Streets Task Force and local police departments coordinated in the search for the suspect.

An Ogunquit man was being held Thursday night in the York County Jail in connection with a sexual assault that allegedly happened late last month in Arundel.

Gezler S. Heron, 22, allegedly assaulted a female acquaintance at a home in Arundel, said York County Sheriff William L. King Jr. in a news release. The woman told investigators that she was raped, beaten and choked during the assault, King said.

“After an investigation by York County Sheriff’s Office, the perpetrator was identified, and an arrest warrant was obtained for Gezler S. Heron, 22, of Ogunquit,” King said. Heron was arrested Wednesday evening.

Heron has been charged with gross sexual assault and aggravated assault and was held on $50,000 cash bail.

Heron is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. Friday in York County Superior Court.