Crime & Public Safety

In a discussion on the issues facing law enforcement in Washington County, including the increase in violent crime caused by drug trafficking, the Calais City Council met on April 27 with representatives of local, county and state law enforcement agencies.

After about 40 minutes of discussion, the Washington County Budget Advisory Committee voted, during their November 21 meeting, to include one additional deputy position and the equipment to support that position in the 2022-2023 budget.

The Robbinston woman who has been charged with the murder of Paula Johnson of Pembroke last February pled not guilty to the charge on October 19. Rebecca Moores, 42, who was arrested in July, is being held without bail at the Washington County Jail in Machias.

On June 1, a jury in Waldo County Superior Court in Belfast found Northfield resident Thomas Bonfanti, 65, guilty on three counts of murder, one count of aggravated attempted murder and one count of elevated aggravated assault in a shooting spree that occurred in the Machias area on February 3,...

The Lubec woman who was killed at Bailey's Mistake earlier this month had been dead for up to nearly three days in the locked trunk of her car before being found, according to a police affidavit.

The shooting of a New York teenager in Machias in November was an ambushed killing involving members of two rival drug gangs, according to a police affidavit. In addition to four men believed to be out-of-state gang members, a local man is now also being charged in the shooting. Nathaniel