Crime & Public Safety

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

A 50-year-old Eastport man, Jason "Cowboy" Aubuchon, was shot in the head and killed in Perry the day after Christmas, and his 40-year-old former girlfriend, Danielle Wheeler, has been charged with murder.

The discovery of a deceased woman believed to be from Lubec in the trunk of a car at Bailey's Mistake has led to the arrest of her boyfriend on a charge of murder.

The investigation into the shooting death of a 17 year old New York man found in Machias on November 4 has led to the arrests of three men in connection with the homicide, which police now say was drug related.