Police, Fire and Courts

BOSTON — Personnel and assets from the First Coast Guard District are being deployed to support rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

On Saturday Air Station Cape Cod deployed two…

The Maine State Police/Marine Patrol Dive Team has recovered the body of a woman who was on-board a recreational fishing boat today approximately 10 miles off of Biddeford Pool.

The woman…

ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Superior and Rockland District Court from Aug. 14-25.

Superior Court

Darrell Crosby, 59, of Jefferson,…

Just after 10:30 a.m., Aug. 27, deputies from the Knox County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of a two vehicle crash at the intersection Rt. 235 (Ridge Rd.) and Old Augusta Road in Warren.…

BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity Aug. 14-24. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.

July 29 (late entry)

BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Aug. 18-24. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.

Aug. 18

Kent…

GARDINER – Maine Securities Administrator Judith Shaw announced that Robert H. Edmunds III, formerly of Nobleboro, has been sentenced in Lincoln County Superior Court to 18 months in…

RocklandThe following deed transfers were recorded from July 28-Aug. 4 at the Knox County Registry of Deeds.

An Ontario man was found dead on Maine’s Appalachian Trail (AT) near Bigelow Mountain Preserve Sunday afternoon, Aug. 20. Gerald Gabon, 55, from Milton, Ontario, Canada, was found dead…

ROCKLAND – Almost the entire summer went by before Rockland EMS needed to assist individuals at the Breakwater, according to Asst. Chief Adam Miceli. Now, twice in two days, their transport “Mule…

ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from Aug. 14-18.

Maine Fire Marshal’s Office investigates second fire at the home in 18 months

SOUTH THOMASTON – Aside from some minor details, the Maine Fire Marshal’s investigation of a fire at 34 Field Street in South Thomaston has been closed. That house, which burned a year and a half…

WALDOBORO — Waldoboro police responded to 94 total calls for service from Aug. 15-22. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt. A person…

CAMDEN — Family, hikers, and first responders attempted to save a man who was suffering a medical emergency this afternoon, Aug. 22, while hiking close to the summit of Megunticook Mountain in the…

BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Aug. 8-21. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.

Aug. 8

Kaitlin Brady, 18, of Belfast, was issued…

KNOX — On Monday, August 21, at approximately 9:21 p.m., Waldo County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash in the Town of Knox on Penney Road.

Upon arrival, reponders…

ROCKLAND — A Cushing man was sentenced to three and a half years in jail for assaulting a woman and trying to strangle her in Rockland on May 8…

SEARSMONT — Four people were injured and one driver died Aug. 18, following a two-vehicle crash on Route 3 in Searsmont just after 8 p.m.

The operator of a 2013 Chevrolet…

BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity Aug. 9-17. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt. 

July 11 (late entry)

BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity Aug. 7-15. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.

Aug. 7

ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from Aug. 7-11.

WASHINGTON – Two people were injured around noon today, Saturday, August 19, when a golf cart was struck by a car on Billings Road, Rte 73, in Washington. The two occupants sustained injuries from…

ROCKLAND — Rockland police reported the following activity Aug. 7-13. An arrest or summons does not apply guilt. A person charged with a crime…

PROSPECT — The Maine State Police are appealing to the public in an effort to track down a single axle UniLift boom lift that was stolen from the side of the road on Route 1-A Aug. 16.

WALDOBORO — Waldoboro police responded to 92 calls for service from Aug. 8-15. Listed below are a few of the highlights. An arrest or summons…

In the wake of the Aug. 12 Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacy rally and deaths and injuries, fliers targeting people based on race and sexual identity turned up around Boothbay Harbor on…

At least three Lincoln County law enforcement agencies, Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset and the Sheriff’s Office, have been…

ROCKPORT — On Aug. 12, Rockport Police were called to Mt. Pleasant Road, where a bicyclist apparently went off the road, hit a tree, suffered head trauma, and lay in deep vegetation beside the…

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ROCKPORT — They call themselves the “Unofficial Ladies Auxiliary Club of Rockport.” This unique club consists of five women, who last winter…

BELFAST — The following deed transfers were recorded in the Waldo County Registry of Deeds July 31 - Aug. 11.

Belfast

Kevin D. Gray to…

ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from July 31-Aug. 4.

BELFAST — Belfast Police responded to the scene of their second goat caper this year, when they were called to Belfast’s Rail Trail to collect two escapee goats Aug. 14.

ROCKLAND – Carrying the injured off the breakwater, lowering a suddenly disabled contractor from the roof of Hannaford’s, launching boats into quarries for the sake of a fallen hiker,…

BELFAST — The following Unified Criminal Court cases were closed in Waldo County from July 28 - Aug. 10. 

Kaylee M. Heino, 18, of Warren, terrorizing in Belfast…

MAN REMAINS IN JAIL ON $50,000 CASH BAIL

ROCKLAND — A Warren man remains in the Knox County Jail after he was arrested last week for allegedly causing injuries to a young child. The…

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Angel McCracken, 26, of Damariscotta, who was arrested in late May on prostitution charges, when several alleged clients were summonsed on charges, has not been charged with any crime, according…

BELFAST — A Belfast man was arrested and charged with gross sexual assault Aug. 8, following an anonymous online tip.

Christopher G. Farrar, 28, was arrested following an…

WINTERPORT — An Aug. 3, rollover accident was attributed to the effects of driving while drowsy, according to the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office.

Corporal Darrin Moody responded to North…

BELFAST — The Belfast Police Department reported the following activity July 21 - Aug. 9. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.

July 4 (late entry)

BELFAST — An alleged broken roofing contract led to the arrest of a Northport man, charged with felony home repair fraud.

Stephen E. Boyle, 46, reportedly entered into the…

ROCKLAND — The Knox County grand jury handed down their indictments against 12 defendants August 9. An indictment does not imply guilt.…

BELFAST — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office reported the following activity July 28 - Aug. 8. An arrest or summons does not imply guilt.

July 28

ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from July 24-28.

ROCKLAND — The following cases were closed in Knox County Superior and Rockland District Court from July 10-Aug. 4.

Two separate single vehicle accidents Aug. 12, have left three dead and two critically wounded, according to a media report from Sergeant Nicholas Oettinger, of the Waldo County…

First responders work fast to help woman out of Jeep

ROCKPORT — Firefighters worked fast in Rockport Thursday afternoon to extricate a woman from her Jeep, after she veered off Route 90 and rolled the car before coming to a stop in the trees.

ROCKLAND – Local dispatchers simultaneously toned Rockland Fire and its mutual aid sources to a small fire on Cedar Street around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10. The 911 caller reported a fire…

CAMDEN — Camden police reported the following activity from July 1-31. An arrest or summons does not apply guilt. A person charged with a crime…

BOSTON — A late afternoon flight with nine passengers aboard the Boston-bound Cape Air flight to Boston got a little windier Aug. 9 when the upper portion of the door opened.

According to…

UNITY — A Unity man was arrested Aug. 5, following an investigation into scrap metal stolen from a Unity business in July.

Matthew Cowette, 32, has been charged with two…