Crime & Public Safety

Responding to claims of a surge in vandalism, speeding, property damage and theft, Washington County Sheriff Barry Curtis and Chief Deputy Michael Crabtree spoke to a full house during the September 1 meeting of the Lubec Select Board.

Three suspects were arrested for robbery following a high-speed chase after they tied up and assaulted a Pembroke man in his home early Sunday morning, April 18.

A former officer with the Calais Police Department has been arrested after allegedly providing drugs to a student at Narraguagus High School. Jeffrey Bishop, 53, of Cherryfield left the Calais department less than a week before he was arrested on the drug-trafficking charges.

The man who allegedly killed three people and wounded another during a shooting spree in the Machias area last February reportedly stated shortly afterward to those at the Machias American Legion hall...

A former Eastport property owner, Patricia Lindau, who recently lost two of the city's historic downtown buildings to a foreclosure auction after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, pleaded not guilty to charges of larceny and embezzlement at her arraignment in Massachusetts on July 21.

The body of a deceased St. Andrews man was found on a beach in Robbinston on July 7. Richard Warnell, 64, had been the subject of a missing person investigation by the RCMP since July 3.