Stories about Maine State Police
Maine State Police lieutenant not disciplined after gun went off inside
AUGUSTA, Maine — An investigation by a division of the Maine State Police was unable to determine why a lieutenant’s firearm accidentally discharged during a computer training session. Lt. Shawn Currie, commander of the state police commercial vehicle enforcement division, was not disciplined after the Feb. 27 incident. Currie was ...
POLL QUESTION
Should Maine allow teachers to carry guns in school?
The bill would allow school boards to establish procedures for trained school employees to carry concealed handguns on school property.
Mattawamkeag fire chief, deputy chief placed on unpaid leave for alleged misuse of funds
MATTAWAMKEAG, Maine — Town leaders are seeking the resignation of Fire Chief Robert Powers after he and his wife, Deputy Chief Lynne Powers, were suspended without pay for an alleged misuse of funds that state police are investigating, the Board of Selectmen’s chairman said Tuesday. The Board of Selectmen emerged ...
Federal judge grants class action status to state retirees’ lawsuit
BANGOR, Maine — A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit filed by Maine retirees over the elimination in 2011 of cost-of-living adjustments for Maine state employee retirement benefits. The ruling, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge George Singal, clears the way for about 28,000 retired teachers, ...
Team of Maine troopers, sheriff’s deputies head to NJ to help in wake of hurricane
BANGOR, Maine — A team of Maine State Police troopers and Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department deputies left for New Jersey on Sunday morning to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on the region when it made landfall a week ago. The 11 troopers and four deputies ...
Maine state trooper placed on leave pending investigation
FORT KENT, Maine — Officials with the Maine State Police confirmed Friday that an officer attached to the Troop F barracks in Houlton is the subject of an internal investigation and has been placed on leave. Trooper Stanley Jandreau, an 18-year veteran with the Maine State Police, is on “administrative ...
Maine State Police to get new line of cruisers this summer
The Associated Press on July 01, 2012, at 3:41 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine State Police are getting new cruisers beginning this summer. Officials say the new vehicles will be Ford Police Interceptors, which are based on the Ford Taurus. The Interceptors will replace Crown Victoria cruisers, which Maine State Police have been using since 1996. Ford has stopped making ...
Transportation Committee split about using Highway Fund money for Maine State Police
AUGUSTA, Maine — The immediate issue was funding $36,000 from the Highway Fund for part of the cost of a forensic chemist in the state police crime lab, but it triggered a far broader debate in the Legislature’s Transportation Committee over use of the fund for purposes outside of roads ...
MDEA bust yields large quantity of drugs, including $190,000 in bath salts
HUDSON, Maine — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, aided by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, seized a large amount of bath salts — with a street value of $190,000 — and arrested three people on felony drug trafficking charges after raids Wednesday night, an MDEA spokesman said Thursday. ...
Maine police receive funds for holiday patrols
The Associated Press on Dec. 03, 2011, at 12:11 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — Forty-seven police agencies in Maine are getting federal money to beef up patrols on the lookout for impaired drivers during the holiday season. The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety has distributed $200,000 to 41 police departments, five sheriff’s offices and Maine State Police. The money will pay ...
POLL QUESTION
Backlog at Maine Computer Crimes Unit keeps child pornographers on the streets
VASSALBORO, Maine — The Maine State Police’s Computer Crimes Unit — tasked with investigating child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking crimes as well as other computer-based offenses — successfully closed four cases last week. The bad news is that eight new cases also arrived last week. And some of those ...
State police respond to reported Enfield gun incident
ENFIELD, Maine — Maine State Police got a call Wednesday morning from a woman hiding in her house from a man she lives with who reportedly threatened to shoot her, but after an investigation police determined no crime occurred, Trooper Thomas Fiske said. “There was a comment made that the ...
As speeders become more brazen, police seek to analyze habits
AUGUSTA, Maine — In recent weeks, a 16-year-old high school student was clocked at 103 mph on the Maine Turnpike in York, a 38-year-old mother with three children in her car was stopped for going 93 mph in a 45 mph zone in Aroostook County, and an 82-year-old man was ...
Danforth man seriously hurt in bird hunting accident
on Oct. 04, 2011, at 6:19 p.m.
WESTON, Maine — A Danforth man suffered serious injuries in a bird hunting accident Tuesday morning in Weston. John Shaw, 35, suffered severe damage to his left leg when the shotgun being held by his uncle and hunting partner, Douglass Conklin, discharged unexpectedly shortly after 11 a.m., according to Travis ...
Domestic assault suspect found hiding in Kenduskeag trailer
KENDUSKEAG, Maine — A local man who was wanted by police in connection with two domestic violence assaults was arrested Sunday night after a state police trooper found him hiding in a vacant mobile home he had been hired to fix up. Dereck Connors, 36, was arrested without incident after ...
Police search for clues in case of missing Lewiston woman
The Associated Press on Sept. 23, 2011, at 5:06 p.m.
LEWISTON, Maine — Maine State Police are searching for clues in hopes of learning the whereabouts of a young Lewiston woman who last was seen nearly three months ago. Investigators searched a house on Sabattus Street in Lewiston on Friday in hopes of uncovering clues connected to the disappearance of ...
Fort Fairfield man charged with possession of child pornography
FORT FAIRFIELD — A Fort Fairfield man who worked with a local after-school program was arrested Thursday after investigators say they found at his home sexually explicit images of children as young as 5 years old. Sgt. Glenn Lang of the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit said Friday that ...
Whitefield man arrested after threatening neighbor with gun
WHITEFIELD, Maine — A Whitefield man is behind bars Friday afternoon after he allegedly entered a neighbor’s home and threatened the husband and wife with a shotgun, police said. Peter Poland, 39, is facing a charge of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, according to a press release sent out ...
Death of Howland man raises concern
BDN staff and wire reports on Sept. 09, 2011, at 8:51 p.m.
HOWLAND, Maine — Maine police say a 52-year-old man decapitated himself by tying a cable around his neck and driving off in his pickup truck in Howland just days after another man was in the news for doing the same thing in Virginia. Maine State Police said the man last ...
Mars Hill accident victim in critical condition
MARS HILL, Maine — The condition of a 52-year-old Mars Hill man who suffered significant injuries after the vehicle he was riding in was hit by a drunken driver on Saturday evening has become more serious. Herb Young was listed in critical condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor ...
Police find body believed to be that of missing Glenburn teen
Items found, authorities pursuing leads in search for Glenburn teen
LePage hopes to eliminate income tax by end of second term
Woman accused of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct outside Bangor nightclub
Ignore LePage politics, get to root of DHHS funding needs
Basketball season never ends for Worcesters of Washburn, a family of 1,000-point scorers
UMaine narrows candidate list, hopes to name men’s hockey coach next week
Eastport teen notches first ‘Bandolero’ racing victory
Not even chemotherapy could quell Maine woman’s longing to be in the kitchen
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at age 74
Penobscot Theatre Company ends season with whirlwind production of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
From a mountaintop…of sorts
