Police, Fire and Courts

The Damariscotta police report the following activity from Dec. 14 to Dec. 20, 2015:

Pastor Wally Staples has a message for whoever walked into the Church of the Nazarene on Wiscasset’s Gardiner Road Friday and took two bags of collected toys that were going to go to families. …

Alna selectmen got a surprise Dec. 16. Wiscasset Ambulance Service sent a letter about some bad debts that Alna residents had racked up with the Wiscasset department. Board members said they had…

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and Dresden Fire Department responded Monday morning to the scene of a vehicle accident at Call’s Hill Road and Route 127 in Dresden. A deputy on-scene said…

A 23-year-old Boothbay man was airlifted to a Boston hospital Saturday with a head injury after a tire exploded and killed another man in Salem, New Hampshire, Salem police reported. Adam Sproul’s…

Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline arrested a 30-year-old Pittston man on Monday, Dec. 14 after the man allegedly assaulted Cline and damaged a police car.

The Damariscotta police report the following activity from Dec. 7, to Dec. 13, 2015:

Dec. 7

On Dec 21, 2015, officers from Damariscotta Police Department and community members will come together in an informal, neutral space to discuss community issues, build…

A 24-year-old Dresden man was in fair condition at Maine Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 14, following a Dec. 8, one-car accident in Dresden that seriously injured him.

An initial…

Alna selectmen

Alna selectmen’s sale of a fire truck had the ending they had first hoped for — to see the truck go a town that could really use one on the cheap. It just took a surprise, an understanding…

Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Brett Strout advises motorists to use caution, as the time of year for black ice has gotten under way. Ice on the Woolwich side of Sagadahoc Bridge caused…

A Texas man who allegedly sexually assaulted a juvenile on Westport Island has pleaded guilty to one count of felony sexual contact.

Wiscasset Police Department

Wiscasset Police Sgt. Kathy Williams will miss her boys.

That’s what she calls the men she’s worked with for years at Wiscasset Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, where…

A Harpswell man faces multiple charges after authorities investigated a report of a gun being fired in the air in Damariscotta, then a motor vehicle crash in Nobleboro.

On Thursday Dec. 3,…

A Damariscotta man who allegedly assaulted an underaged girl has been sentenced to jail.

Randall Main, 43, of Damariscotta pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in November at the Lincoln…

Beginning Jan. 4 through June 4, Wiscasset Ambulance Service will be hosting a basic EMT course in the Wiscasset municipal building. Registration is under way now and the class size is limited to…

Delinquent parking ticket holders: The law may be coming for you.

At least if the town of Damariscotta approves hiring…

Westport Island’s selectmen and two other town officials are asking a Lincoln County Superior Court justice to pull them as defendants in a lawsuit over a road dispute. The suit challenges the…

No one was hurt in a rollover accident Sunday on Wiscasset’s Foye Road, police and fire officials said. A local man was later summonsed on a driving to endanger charge, according to a Wiscasset…

A man who allegedly had guns, heroin and stolen African coins in his possession has been arrested.

Kevin King, 53, of Waldoboro, was charged with a trio of felonies by the Waldoboro Police…

A Waldoboro man has been arrested on two sex charges. On Friday, Nov. 20, Lincoln County sheriff’s detectives arrested Adam McDonough, 48, in connection with charges of sexual abuse and unlawful…

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office

A Wiscasset man has been charged with felony theft after he allegedly stole a homeowner's key and robbed a safe.

James Ezzell, 34, of Wiscasset was arrested by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s…

A 22-year-old woman who was shot in the head Monday, Nov. 16 in Bath has died, authorities said Thursday, Nov. 19.

Chelsea Jones, 22, of Thomaston died Thursday after having spent Monday,…

Boothbay Harbor Police arrested a Boothbay Harbor couple on drug charges on Nov. 13, as a result of a search of an Atlantic Avenue apartment.

Warner Hinckley, 43, was charged with…

According to a release from the Bath Police Department, one person was sent to the hospital after a handgun was allegedly discharged in the Shaw's supermarket parking lot in Bath.

Lt. Robert…

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office

A Wiscasset man died after the car he was driving Thursday night in Whitefield struck a tree. Cory A. Barter, 38, was not wearing a seat…

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency

A Boothbay Harbor woman was arrested recently and charged with felony trafficking following a months-long investigation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.…

William Curran

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 9 arrested William Curran, 42, at his home in Whitefield, on a charge of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Since the victim was under the age of 12 at the…

A Boothbay Harbor man has been arrested and charged with felony trafficking after he allegedly brought drugs into Two Bridges Regional Jail…

“When do the State Police provide services for the county?” Commissioner Hamilton Meserve asked at the Lincoln County Commissioners’ meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 3.…

1972 Dodge Power Wago, Emergency show

When the paramedic-drama series “Emergency” aired in the 1970s, Alna’s Kathy Zuppa had an easy time remembering the emergency wagon’s call number, KMG-365. She was Kathy Gilbert of New Harbor then…

Two Bridges Regional Jail

A Dresden man has been charged with a trio of crimes after he allegedly broke a restraining order twice.

Nathan Peaslee, 25, of Dresden was arrested twice in two days for allegedly violating…

Boothbay Harbor police arrested two women on drug charges, one at a private residence and the second in a parked automobile.

On Monday, Oct. 26, Officer Devin Polizzotti arrested Heather…

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office

A 44-year-old Jefferson man was arrested and charged with domestic assault and aggravated assault after he allegedly punched a 14-year-old…

A Windsor man is in jail after he allegedly violated his probation and contacted a Whitefield woman who has a court order against him.…

The driver of a northbound car on Route 27 received a concussion Friday afternoon when a Maine Department of Transportation truck struck the car from behind, a Lincoln County sheriff’s official…

Local woman spearheaded two-year fundraising campaign to make it happen

Maine has just received a new powerful tool to combat child pornography and trafficking — a new mobile forensic laboratory for the state’s Computer Crimes Unit, thanks in large part to former…

A Rockland man who asked his friend's girlfriend to wash his truck in the nude has pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual touching after a groping incident at a local campground this…

Two Bridges Regional Jail

A Westport Island man who was in jail for allegedly violating his probation and conditions of release has allegedly broken those conditions…

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office

An East Boothbay woman was in jail and facing felony charges after she allegedly took illicit photos of an underage relative and sent them to a man in South Carolina.

Rachel Anderson, 35, of…

Roger Gingrass

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency  (MDEA) has arrested a couple from Westport Island on heroin charges.

Arrested were Roger Gingrass, 37 of Westport Island for Aggravated Trafficking in…

No one was hurt in a nighttime fire that claimed a vacant cape home on West Alna Road in Alna on Oct.21, Alna Fire Chief Mike Trask said.

An electrical malfunction ignited a wall in the back…

Lincoln County Superior Court
Wiscasset Town Clerk Linda Perry

Wiscasset Town Clerk Linda Perry and her former employer, the town of Waldoboro, have settled her appeal out of court.

The town has agreed to pay Perry, town officials confirmed; the…

Melissa Spinney, David Abbott, Doug Baston

An ambulance in Washington County is going full-service, thanks to a defibrillator Alna donated after its…

Following an alleged fight that reportedly included ripping the mirror from a car door and refusing to cooperate with police officers, a Bristol woman has been charged with several crimes.

On Friday, Oct. 16, a former Wiscasset man who was a fugitive for over three years was…

A Wiscasset man who was accused of choking a woman has pleaded guilty to felony assault.

Lincoln County Superior Court
Lincoln County Courthouse

Westport Island and several of its officials are defendants in a court appeal a Colorado couple has brought. Leslie Lilly and husband David Wollins claim that stones the town wants moved are on…

A Boothbay woman is facing a charge of operating under the influence of drugs in connection with a Route 1, Wiscasset crash on Oct. 8, police said. The accident led to one person’s injuries and a…

WALDOBORO — Waldoboro Police Chief Bill Labombarde announced in a new release that on Oct. 6, at approximately 6:10 a.m., officers responded to Reef Road for the…