An Ellsworth man on federal supervised release for a previous conviction for possessing child pornography this week was sentenced to…
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The Gorham Police Department is warning residents to lock their cars after responding to more than 20 motor vehicle burglaries…
A member of Venezuelan transnational criminal organization Tren de Aragua was free in New York City for three weeks in…
Five Chinese nationals have been charged after they were caught spying on Camp Grayling, a National Guard training facility located…
A Lewiston man was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday in a Portland federal court for sexually exploiting…
The Lewiston Police Department on Tuesday announced that they had executed two search warrants, resulting in the seizure of a…
The Rockland Police Department announced on Tuesday that their officers will now be equipped with a new Kevlar cord restraint…
A Lewiston man pleaded guilty on Friday in a Bangor federal court to filing a fraudulent application to obtain an…
More than half a million illegal immigrants with pending immigration cases with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have a…
A homeless man who earlier this year was charged with assaulting people with a machete, and who a month ago…
York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery this week touted the sentencing of a Maine man convicted of manslaughter in connection…
An investigation into a string of over 20 package thefts from a Westbrook senior citizen living facility has led to…
The Hampden Police Department in Massachusetts busted a large-scale illegal marijuana growing operation on Tuesday. Hampden Police Department along with…
Lewiston was rocked by a series of violent incidents Tuesday evening, with police responding to two separate reports of gunfire…
A Lisbon man with multiple previous state convictions for possessing and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty this week to a…
Maine Statistical Analysis Center (MSAC) released a report Monday on the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) among police departments throughout…
Following the Portland City Council’s unanimous vote to divest public funds from companies that do business with Israel, the law…
A Brownfield man was arrested on multiple drug and firearm charges following a raid conducted by the Maine Drug Enforcement…
A traffic stop in Lewiston shortly after midnight on Thursday led to the arrest of two men and the seizure…
Asian restaurant owners in Maine have become targets for sophisticated and often lucrative burglaries at the hands of well-organized, highly…
A motor vehicle crash on Main Street in Westbrook on Tuesday that left one car flipped on its side led…
A Portland man who in 2020 sold fentanyl-laced fake pills that killed a York County woman has been sentenced to…
Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor’s Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in the U.S. was arrested last week on Nantucket Island by federal immigration officers after…
The New York man charged in April with criminal threatening and aggravated sex trafficking for running his “massage parlor” as…
A joint operation by the Portland Police Department and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the arrest of a…
A Bangor-based homelessness fundraising organization is propagating educational materials aimed at helping homeless individuals avoid arrest for a variety of…
On Tuesday the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee voted to advance a proposal from…
The owner of multiple massage parlors throughout Maine has been arrested in connection to a police investigation into alleged sex…
Federal authorities in Boston have seized more than 350 internet domains that investigators believe were used for the illegal importation…
An Edgartown man has pleaded guilty to charges related to an armed bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard, federal prosecutors said…
Four individuals from Massachusetts and New York face charges in connection with a health care fraud scheme that allegedly involved…
In the span of less than two weeks since Lewiston city officials and the Androscoggin County district attorney announced their plans to…
A 59-year-old man was found dead in an apparent suicide at a state park in Washington County on June 8,…
The city of Portland has ordered a property owner to clean up a hazardous waste site left behind by an…
A 36-year-old New York man is facing multiple charges following a pursuit and altercation with Portland police early Monday morning.…
A Bangladeshi illegal alien who earlier this year was arrested by Connecticut State Police on multiple charges of sexual abuse…
The U.S. Attorney General went back to an old play pulled off by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III to…
A traffic stop early Tuesday morning in Lewiston led to the arrest of a felon out on bail after a…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday the arrest of an illegal alien charged with five counts of…
A Dixfield man has been arrested after authorities found a 9-month-old baby girl suffering from an opioid overdose at a…
Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be offering its high school-aged incarcerated…
The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying its efforts against Chinese organized crime networks operating in Maine, following a series of…
A fugitive wanted in Maine for multiple firearms violations was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Auburn on…
The search of a residence in Palmyra by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday led to the seizure of…
Two men were arrested on Thursday in Farmington following a significant drug bust that resulted in the seizure of cocaine,…
Lewiston city officials, the chief of police and the Androscoggin County district attorney held a press conference on Thursday alongside…
Maine Wire Reporter Seamus Othot contributed to this story. The small family home at 254 Academy Road in Monmouth may…
A homeless man who in January was charged with assaulting people with a machete outside a Portland apartment complex was…
Firefighters in Lewiston battled a fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon at a College Street home that has been subject…
The Yarmouth Police Department was dealt an unexpected surprise on Monday when resident came to them seeking help disposing of…
Rockland Police announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a man suspected of burglarizing a museum and stealing tools from…
In response to a series of shooting incidents in recent weeks, the Lewiston Police Department, alongside city officials and the…
A Chinese national arrested during law enforcement raids on illegal marijuana grows in March is now facing federal charges. [RELATED:…
A homeless man is facing robbery and criminal threatening charges after allegedly entering a U.S. Post Office in Portland and…
A back-to-school event with over 300 attendees at Lewiston’s McGraw Park on Friday was interrupted by a teen male firing…
New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella has filed Civil Rights Act complaint against a man accused of vandalizing a Jewish…
A man who led police on multiple chases through the Portland area late last year has pleaded guilty to the…
A Brazilian national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2021 has been taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs…
A 38-year-old Auburn man who is the subject of a long-term drug trafficking investigation related to the sale of marijuana…
A juvenile male was injured in a drive-by shooting that occurred early Monday morning near the intersection of Pine and…
A man is facing multiple assault charges after being arrested in connection to a baseball attack outside Portland’s Homeless Services…
A new class action lawsuit filed in Florida has revealed a massive data breach that reportedly left roughly 2.9 billion…
Two days after Christmas 2023, the bodies of Jean C. Robinson, 76, and her daughter, Allison “Joy” Cumming, 53, were…
Maine’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted unanimously on Tuesday to reject a proposal from Versant Power that would have helped…
An illegal alien wanted for attempted murder in Brazil was deported last month by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
After more than a week of investigating without an arrest, Portland Police announced on Friday that they have arrested a…
A registrant in the Maine Sex Offender Registry was arrested on Thursday after a juvenile victim and witnesses came forward…
A man found guilty of committing a stabbing attack in a Westbrook parking lot this January has been received a…
A man wanted for a felony domestic violence charge was found on Tuesday by Auburn Police in possession of a…
Amid a growing recruitment crisis among Maine’s law enforcement agencies, which have been struggling to continue normal operations with reduced…
While no arrests have yet been made, Portland Police announced on Tuesday that the investigation into last week’s fatal shooting…
An investigation launched early last year into a fraudulent vehicle purchasing scheme that targeted online sellers has concluded with the…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent…
A Sedgwick man is facing up to 60 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to producing and sharing child…
After reports of a biological man using the women’s locker room at a Missouri Life Time Fitness, the state’s Attorney…
A man’s attempt to hide illegal drugs from law enforcement by flushing them down the toilet of a Waterville residence…
A Canadian-born illegal alien with outstanding warrants for grand theft and armed robbery was caught stealing more than $3,000 of…
Over three months since an illegal alien caused a car crash on I-95 in Wells that left a Maine woman…
Last month border agents in Arizona intercepted a shipment of approximately four million fentanyl pills in the largest seizure of…
One of the four victims that was hospitalized after a Tuesday evening shooting on Forest Avenue in Portland has died…
A special report released Tuesday by the FBI examined the number of drug offenses in connection with human trafficking incidents…
A Kentucky woman who founded a charitable nonprofit organization meant to host Ukrainian orphans in the U.S. was sentenced on…
The man accused of stealing a 54-year-old Maryland woman’s car in broad daylight over the weekend in Virginia on Sunday,…
The Portland Police Department is investigating an apparent shooting that occurred near Morrill’s Corner Tuesday evening that resulted in four…
A former basketball coach at a Massachusetts high school is facing federal charges for allegedly transporting a former student across…
On Monday, South Portland Police released the identities of one of the two male teens who escaped from South Portland’s…
A Westbrook man pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland on Monday to robbing a bank in South Portland in…
A Portland man is facing a charge of attempted murder after allegedly shooting a woman in the arm early Monday…
A crowd of pedestrians leaving an event at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium narrowly avoided being struck by a habitual offender driving…
Law enforcement are still searching for two minors who escaped from South Portland’s Long Creek Youth Development Center on Friday and…
A Venezuelan national living in the United States illegally shot a Texas police officer multiple times during a domestic violence…
Five people were arrested after police raided a Lewiston drug house for the third time in eight months, Lewiston Police…
A pediatric anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital was arrested and charged last week with the possession and distribution of child…
While correctional facilities across the State of Maine are providing Medical Assisted Treatment (MAT) aimed at reducing recidivism of inmates…
The Maine Democrat’s candidate for State Senate District 19 was charged with Operating Under the Influence (OUI) in May, according…
The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) will be launching a prison rehabilitation program specifically tailored for Muslim inmates, aimed at…
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland on Tuesday to his role in burglarizing several Maine…
A Border Patrol K-9 helped agents assigned to a California border station intercept over $1 million in cocaine from being…
Lewiston Police are investigating the second shooting incident in less than a week at the same public housing complex where…