Crime & Public Safety

Three of the four Grand Manan men convicted in connection to the summer brawl that left alleged drug dealer Ronnie Ross beaten and his house burned to the ground have been sentenced to house arrest. Michael Small, 27, and Lloyd Bainbridge, 31, were convicted of arson November 18.

Four of the five Grand Manan residents charged in connection with the July riot that left an alleged crack house in cinders were found guilty by a St. Andrews jury Saturday, November 18.

The jury trial is under way of the five Grand Manan men charged in a July 22 incident in which a group of about 40 islanders attacked a smaller group of islanders and mainlanders whom they suspected of dealing in drugs.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating an apparent incident of vigilante justice on Grand Manan Island in the early hours of Saturday, July 22, that led to arson, gunfire and physical altercations in Castalia...

The cause of death still has not been determined for a 34-year-old homeless man from Lubec whose burning body was discovered under the Harlow Street Bridge in Bangor on Tuesday evening, March 7. His death is being investigated as a homicide, according to Deputy Attorney General William Stokes.

“When I found him, he could see the heavens up above. He was lying beside two stumps, as if he had laid down to rest. I think he had just played himself out, trying to walk for help. He looked like he passed in a very peaceful way,” said the 79 year old Bob Wright, of finding his friend in the...