ELLSWORTH, Maine — A local man who was shot in an altercation in Lamoine that resulted in the death of another man continues to have run-ins with law enforcement officials in Hancock County.
Joshua A. McKinney, 25, was arrested June 15 by Ellsworth police after an officer spotted McKinney driving a car along a local road. The officer knew McKinney’s license was suspended and so stopped the vehicle, Ellsworth police Chief John DeLeo said Thursday.
After being stopped, McKinney was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle after revocation and violating bail. He had been arrested in March on charges of operating after revocation and unlawful possession of prescription drugs.
Another man riding with McKinney in June, Andrew Elsner, 20 of Ellsworth, also was arrested on a charge of permitting unlawful use and on a probation hold. According to DeLeo, Elsner had a valid license to operate a motor vehicle at the time of the stop.
On Monday, June 18, McKinney was arrested yet again, this time by a Maine State Police trooper. According to the Hancock County Jail log, McKinney was arrested by Trooper Mike Southard on charges of violating conditions of release and possession of hypodermics.
McKinney was one of four men shot March 11 outside a home on Route 184 in Lamoine. McKinney’s injuries were not considered life-threatening, police said at the time.
McKinney contacted the Bangor Daily News nearly two weeks later, after the paper reported his March 23 arrest, to tell the paper that the shooting stemmed from a dispute over a truck paint job. McKinney said people were assuming the shooting was drug-related but that it was not.
Michael Carter, 30, of Lamoine, has been arrested on charges of murder, elevated aggravated assault, aggravated assault and illegal possession of a firearm as a result of the shooting, which took the life of Ellsworth resident Lawrence “Randy” Sinclair Jr. Carter has pleaded innocent to the charges and is expected to appear Monday, June 25, in Hancock County Superior Court for a bail hearing.
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Let me guess, this guy has a dispute with the cops about a paint job on his truck too.
What a sorry state of affairs.
Time to make a change of lifestyle…
This guy will obviously never learn. Some puppies will never train, no matter how many newspaper swats or ‘clicker+treat’ sessions you try.
What do we do, electro shock therapy to align the synapsis in his head? Can’t think of much else……
He says the shooting was not drug related but for a bad paint job. Then he’s caught with hypodermic needles. Maybe the guy painted the truck by squirting the paint with the needle hense the poor job?
How hard is it to just NOT break the law?
For a criminal, pretty hard I guess. I think we’ll be seeing his name in the paper until he’s put away…
How about the court system keep this guy behind bars before the next time he kills someone while driving and we read that in the newspaper.
Yes, he broke the law, and yes he should be punished. However, not ONE of his arrests has been for any form of reckless driving. Possession, yes. Driving while under revocation, yes. Not for reckless driving.
Having your license revoked by the state does not mean you lose the knowledge to drive safely. It means you have done something that makes the state take the privilege of driving away from you. It can be for something as minor as a paperwork error. It’s not always for something major/dangerous/reckless.
Assuming that he will kill someone while behind the wheel is way off base.
Very adept at driving while stoned…
They never said what his license was suspended for. You are ASSUMING it was for that.
Sad how any many Junkies have been made out of Mainers, it’s our Specialty. I have ESP
you just assuming their mainer’s or do you have esp.. should be no shortage of judges in this state, they just need to come here and hand pick..
We got your number boys…..
Addiction …another person consumed by drugs, lets get him a free ride to the nearest free meth or pot clinic…or better yet a free ride to Mexico.
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Do you need a hypodermic needle for MJ?
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Do not confuse methadone clinics with medical marijuana dispensaries. One is for those who who have allowed themselves to become addicted to mind altering. life-changing drugs with a place for terminally ill or those with chronic illness and injury to go for a medication suggested by their physician to relieve physical suffering.
No one who gets their medication from a medical marijuana dispensary gets a free ride. There is no mileage money given and no tax payer’s money is spent buying the medicine that controls physical suffering for many Mainers. Many of those patients are unable to work because of their illness or disability so they must buy this valuable medication on their own, unlike many who can get pill bottles full or heavy duty pharmaceuticals.
One word: incorrigible. No doubt we’ll be hearing about this loser again and again.
He’s looking to win the “Tri-fecta”