PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee issued a statement today to update the community on the Office’s ongoing efforts to combat illegal marijuana grows in rural Maine: Local law enforcement has our full support: The U.S. Attorney’s Office and multiple federal agencies, including the DEA, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and IRS, have been actively and directly working with local and state law enforcement partners in a coordinated response to the illegal marijuana grows operating predominantly in central Maine. Simultaneous ...
A longtime Portland lawyer with a background as a public defender and as a federal prosecutor was confirmed as a federal judge for the District of Maine on Tuesday. The Senate confirmed Stacey Neumann in a 50-43 vote to be a U.S. District judge in Bangor. Both of Maine’s senators – Susan Collins and Angus King – voted in favor. Neumann is a private attorney and partner at Murray Plumb & Murray, where she has worked since 2013. She joined the firm after about four years as a prosecutor for ...
Attorney for the District of Maine is the state's chief federal law enforcement officer. The office prosecutes criminal cases brought by the Federal government, prosecutes and defends civil cases in which the United States is a party, and enforces the collection of debts owed to the Federal government. The U.S. Attorney's Office works to foster strategic partnerships with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as other members of the community, to have a positive impact on th...
Between December and March, the attorney general's office received 15 complaints about the company that collects ticket revenue for the University of Southern Maine in Gorham and Portland.
Police say a teenager accused of planning a school shooting had weighted body armor, Nazi flags, odes to the Columbine gunmen and access to several firearms when they raided his South Portland home last year. The Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office presented the evidence Friday during the first day of a two-day hearing scheduled to determine whether a 17-year-old South Portland student, will be tried as an adult on a charge of criminal solicitation to commit murder. The charge is a Class A crime (the highest level in Maine) and could ...
PORTLAND, Maine—A Portland man was sentenced today in federal court for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced. U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced Andrew Hazelton, 29, to five years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Hazelton pleaded guilty on July 22, 2021. According to court records, in October 2019, Hazelton chatted online with a 10-year-old girl. During the chat—after learning that the girl was 10—he said he wanted to see her “sexy body,” and asked her to ...
“White people in Maine don’t appreciate what you (Albehadli) are trying to do in (South)... South Portland police and the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office. Comments are...
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in Portland on Monday. The date of his arraignment in a Washington, D.C., district court has not yet been set, according to... 6, 2021 – through an attorney, Fournier admitted as much to...