ELLSWORTH, Maine — A local man who suffered injuries that were not life threatening in a shooting this month in Lamoine has been arrested on unrelated charges, according to police.
Joshua McKinney, 25, was arrested early Friday after Ellsworth police stopped his vehicle and found drugs in the car.
Police say McKinney’s license has been suspended and that they arrested him on a charge of operating a motor vehicle after revocation. McKinney also had with him prescription drugs that he had not been prescribed, according to police reports, and so was charged with unlawful possession of drugs. The pills he had were Suboxone and Ritalin, police indicated.
McKinney was taken to Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth but was released later Friday morning on $750 unsecured bail, according to jail officials.
McKinney was one of four men who were shot early on the morning of March 11 outside a home in Lamoine. One of them, Lawrence “Randy” Sinclair, 32, of Ellsworth, was shot in the head and died later that day.
McKinney’s injuries from the shooting were not life-threatening, police have said.
Also shot were Michael Carter, 30, of Lamoine and Torrey Garland, 34, of Ellsworth. Carter, who lives at the home on Route 184 where the shootings occurred, suffered injuries that were not life threatening, but Garland was listed in critical condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor in the days after the shooting. Garland’s condition has since improved enough for state police detectives to interview him about the incident.
McCausland said police now are sorting through conflicting witness statements about what happened outside the home at 749 Douglas Highway, where Carter lives with 22-year-old Tacy Mullins.
Mullins, 22, and Jacob Sinclair, 24, of Ellsworth, were present at the house at the time of the shooting but were not injured. Mullins lives at the home with Carter and Sinclair is Randy Sinclair’s brother.
Police say they have recovered a weapon from the shooting scene but have declined to identify what kind of gun it is or who owns it. Police have not indicated who might have fired the gun or why four men men showed up at the house at 4:30 a.m. on a Sunday. No charges have been filed yet in the matter.
Stephen McCausland, spokesman for Maine Department of Public Safety, indicated Friday in an email that there are no new developments in the shooting case, which remains under investigation.
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(Sarcasm button on) The look of shock on my face is priceless…………………
Ditto
Time to make the popcorn :-p
Buttered I hope, will make it easier not to choke on it while reading some of the lame comments sure to come, like one below…
There will be plenty of butter… To bad I have to step out for a couple of hours but I will have plenty to read by then.
Edit: I’m home :-)
No doubt
I’m ready…
Do we think drugs might somehow have been involved? The shooting madness in this state is incredible. On second thought, the shooting and killing of that young man in Florida is pure madness too.
As the E-Trade baby would say…..”this is my surprise face”
This guy is into drugs???
Whoda thunk it?
…but he is such a good boy (that be neighbor speak)
Some people just don’t learn……..
And they won’t when they are let go on $750 bail.
We’re not living in China, around here we don’t let people rot in jail before they have their fair trial and conviction.
But they threw him in jail… and he hasn’t had a trial yet! How can that be, here, in America!!
The pills he was carrying probably had a street value similar to the bail set for him, so how does that deter him from doing the same thing again? It doesn’t.
I’m not suggesting keeping people in jail indefinitely, but the bail system is messed up. Individual commissioners come up with values without doing due diligence and the bail prices they set are all over the map.
Apprently they have TOO many trials, maybe they need to take it a little more seriously when sentencing.
Bail is not punishment. It is to assure the accused will show up in court. I doubt that any judge thought this loser would “get away.”
Maybe we should and some this crap would stop!
I knew it… time to move a regional office of the BDN to Lamoine…
Haven’t the police figured out yet who fired the gun in Lamoine? Maybe I watch too much tv, but isn’t there a gunpowder residue test that tells you whether or not a person has fired a gun recently? I fail to understand why the police are having such a difficult time coming up with a simple statement about who shot the gun. I am now prepared to hear the litany of excuses for delay by the police, from all those who are happy to be kept in the dark, for as long as possible.
You watch too much TV, let the police do their work and when ready they will let YOU know what is found. Honest to gaaw (Karmin), people think they should know every move that LEO does before a conclusion is found.
You’re right. The people have no right or reasonable expectation that they should have access to the truth. Move along, everyone. Nothing to see here!
There could be a law enforcement officer or a relative involved and they are trying to figure out a way to cover it up.
Cops or upstanding citizens in Ellsworth involved in drugs…….. No way!!!!!!
Borrowed sarcasm filter off or broken…..
Sounds like a case of a bit too much CSI
It’s called a paraffin test which is a wax….maybe their waitin for the bees ??
Drugs, and substance abuse in general along with lack of personal responsibility is dragging this country down big time. Wonder how we fix it?
Vote out the feelgood liberal politicians that profit from the system as it is.
Vote out the nasty conservatives who drive us to “drink.”
These guys are all angels ;-)
How many times can you lose before you are “lost?
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”
-Henry David Thoreau
He was arrested for drug possession…..????? I’m gobsmacked….
Really, dude? REALLY?
If community organizers were packing, would you have more respect? “Our community needs help for its food kitchen,” said the community organizer as he coolly leveled his 9 mil. “Go ahead, city councilman. Make my day.”
Drug use – what is the matter with us? Do we have so little intestinal fortitude that we can’t give up that fleeting “high” when we know that it is going to result in big trouble sooner or later?
I’ll bet he forgot they were in the car, the dunderhead. The police are trying to make themselves look relevant again, since they can’t piece together the multiple shooting/murder in Lamoine, so they were trailing him after his release from hospital, and pulled him over fully knowing his license was suspended, (they would have discovered this information weeks ago), and then, having “reasonable suspicion”, pulled the car apart until they found the pills.
Of course you’re right, he probably didn’t know they were in his car. Someone must of left them in there. Those darn cops stopping him for no license, pulling the poor guys car apart, what’s it coming to.
Nope they can’t. and they will rationalize their behavior because life has been “unfair” to them and they are just trying to “get theirs”.
Having not enough control over these drugs should bequest the govnt’ into being the only dispensor for all to be legal, or control it to reduce the criminal violence associated with it.
Just wait until LePage and the Republicans cut services and funding to help the thousands upon thousands of addicts who actually want help. We’re going to see this drug related violence sky rocket like we’ve never seen before. NO neighborhood or community will be safe.
the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
Really? And you are certain of that, right?
Perhaps you havent been paying attention, but crime has been on a steady increase since a certain clinic was put in. Im sure its coincedence though
Funding’s being cut as we speak and yes…you are correct. There will be a literal crime wave when this goes into effect. A good indicator is the sharp rise in firearm sales going on all over Maine. The fun part is….you’re gonna pay for it all through property tax which is going through the roof with this Governor.
Well he was shot so I would assume he had got meds from the hospital maybe they need to look into that and see if maybe they were his and not in a bottle? I dunno benefit of the doubt :@)
” drugs that he had not been prescibed”. Just gotta read a little.
Ritalin and Suboxone?
Didn’t the hospital just give him tylenol? I thought that he was all over facebook about the stupid doctors and nurses who wouldn’t give him anything stronger for pain.
One word…incorrigible.
Here’s what you’ll hear about this guy and the one that died and the other one who is still in the hospital…”Yes he’s made mistakes, but haven’t we all, and deep down he’s really a good person and is trying to change his ways and needs to be given another chance.” Well I call BS. Eventually those “mistakes” add up to simply being a bad seed who is a detriment to society and needs to be removed for a long period of time. I’m sorry, this is harsh, but it’s reality. The same bad actors commit the vast majority of crimes. I’m sick of people calling crimes “mistakes”.
If he hadn’t been involved in a shooting this wouldn’t even be an article. Clutching at straws to keep an already bickering public at attention to the case.