Crime

Two men from Massachusetts were arrested and charged with unlawful trafficking of marijuana after Augusta police seized over 2 pounds of marijuana and $420 in cash.

Troopers from the Maine State Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying three people who broke into a Mount Vernon variety store on March 10.

The Augusta Police are looking for the public's help with two cases.

Maybe they should have invested in a GPS before getting anywhere near an international border with $20,000 worth of heroin. That's correct, a simple wrong turn near the Maine/Canada border led to the arrest of two men from out of state on heroin charges by the US Customs and Border Patrol and the Maine DEA on March 6 at the crossing near Houlton.

The State Fire Marshal’s Office has arrested two men and a teenage girl from Madison on arson charges stemming from a fire that destroyed a house in Anson last week.

An Augusta woman has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor.

Mark Halle, 32 of Waterville is accused of sexually assaulting an elderly woman in Waterville earlier this month. Today (Feb. 17) the judge, in his case, set bail at $500,000. The state had requested that he be held without bail. The bail has a condition that Halle does not contact the victim or be near her residence.

The Washington D.C. council has put forth a measure that the city would pay its 50 most troubles young residents to stay out of trouble. The measure states that if they stick with programs to turn their lives around, they can make as much as $9,000.

The Maine State Police say a fourth person is being sought in connection with the drug related homicide of an Augusta man in November.  Three others have already been charged in the death of Joseph Marceau, 31, who was killed inside an apartment on Washington Street on Nov. 23.

The Knox County Sheriff's Office has released a sketch of a woman believed to be connected to last week's home invasion on the Sennebec Road in Union. A woman knocked on the door, just a little while before the home was robbed on Wednesday (Feb...

The State Police Computer Crimes Unit arrested a Rockland man and charged him with possessing child pornography on Feb. 8.

State Police are looking for a man who fled on foot after his car crashed into a tree off the Pond Road in Manchester on Feb. 4. Earlier in the night, that car was involved in two high speed chases with both State and Winthrop police.

On Feb. 4, State Police arrested three residents of a home in Edgecomb and charged them in connection with a theft from a store in China three days before Christmas.

State Police say the woman who was charged Monday with murder in connection with an Augusta homicide in November, died this afternoon (Jan. 27).

State Police say a man and woman from Augusta have been formally charged in connection with the death of a man inside their apartment in November.

State Police have charged a Fairfield mother with murder in connection with the death of her newborn infant.