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Training
Maine State Police Face Trooper Shortage
The Maine State Police have 27 openings for troopers and expect 40 more to retire in 2011, which will leave the agency with the most openings in more than 20 years.
November 6, 2010
Patrol
Maine State Police Detective Killed while Aiding Motorist on Interstate
While Detective Campbell was waiting for another officer to arrive at the scene, two wheels separated from a tractor trailer passing the scene. One of the wheels hit the detective.
April 3, 2019
Patrol
Maine Trooper Rescues Wounded Owl from Middle of Road
A trooper with the Maine State Police is being credited with saving the life of an owl that was found in the middle of a road.
November 27, 2019
Patrol
Ex-Con in Custody After Five Shot, Two Fatally in Northern Maine Rampage
Maine State Police say a former convict shot five people, two of them fatally, during a rampage across several northern Maine towns before being captured.
July 17, 2015
Special Units
Man's Gun Tattoo Triggers Maine Police Callout
Smith, who’d gone back to bed, was awakened again minutes later — this time by Maine State Police at his front door, backed up by a group of troopers with assault rifles in his driveway. They were asking him via a megaphone to come out of his house.
March 19, 2014
Training
Maine Sgt. Reported To Work Drunk
A Maine State Police sergeant summoned in late June for operating her state police cruiser while under the influence of alcohol acknowledged Monday that she has a problem with alcohol and is getting the help she needs.
November 26, 2012
Training
Maine Trooper Cleared In Shooting
A Maine State Police trooper was justified in using deadly force when a man pointed a hunting rifle at him in June, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday.
October 8, 2013
Patrol
Veteran Maine Game Warden Dies In Plane Crash
Daryl Gordon was flying a department-owned Cessna 185. He was located after a night-long search involving the Maine Forest Service, Maine State Police, the Houlton Air Branch of Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, and Civil Air Patrol.
March 24, 2011
Patrol
Maine Lawmakers Push for Law to Grant Oversight of Drug Forfeiture Proceeds
Members of the Maine Legislature’s Criminal Justice Committee say they will push for a law in January requiring legislative approval before state law enforcement agencies can spend money forfeited by drug dealers, a move triggered by Maine State Police recently purchasing a new airplane at a cost of $345,000.
October 1, 2008
Patrol
Supreme Court Allows Suit Against Maine Officers to Go Forward
Two of the three troopers petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal. The National Fraternal Order of Police and the Maine State Police Association filed briefs in their support. Now that the court has denied that petition, the case will return to the federal court in Maine, possibly for a trial on the central claims of the lawsuit.
October 5, 2021
Patrol
ME Trooper Visits Murder Victim’s Children He Helped Rescue
A Maine State Police trooper was reunited for the first time in six years with four children he stood guard over while police searched for their mother’s killer.
August 10, 2017
Patrol
Maine Trooper Injured in Tractor Trailer Crash
Police said Davis' cruiser was rear-ended by a tractor trailer near mile 70 northbound in New Gloucester around 5 a.m. Friday. He was stopped on the side of the highway to investigate two cars that had slid off the highway in icy conditions, police said.
December 21, 2018
Patrol
Maine Town Loses Law Enforcement for a Year
Lubec, Maine, will likely be without regular law enforcement services for a year, after the Washington County Sheriff's Department canceled its contract with the town.
June 17, 2012
Patrol
Maine Deputy Killed, Patrol Vehicle Stolen by Robbery Suspect
Somerset County Deputy Cpl. Eugene Cole was killed in the line of duty early Wednesday morning in Norridgewock, police said Wednesday morning.
April 25, 2018
Patrol
Maine Mass Shooter Suspect Still at Large, 18 Dead
The Coast Guard sent out a patrol boat Thursday morning along the Kennebec River but after hours of searching, they found “nothing out of the ordinary,” Chief Petty Officer Ryan Smith said.
October 26, 2023
Patrol
Cigarette Butt DNA Helps Close 30-Year-Old Maine Murder Case
Mercier, of Industry, Maine, was charged with murder on Sept. 28 in the July 5, 1980, death of Rita St. Peter and pleaded not guilty.
December 7, 2011
Patrol
Maine Manhunt Ends with Suspect in Slain Deputy's Cuffs
“We did use Cpl. Cole’s handcuffs. I think that was fitting,” Lancaster said at a 4 p.m. news conference in Norridgewock Saturday.
April 30, 2018
Weapons
Small Arsenal Seized From Maine Suspect
A Maine man who was pulled over Sunday on the Maine Turnpike with an AK-47 assault rifle, several semi-automatic handguns, ammunition and news clippings about the Colorado theater shootings in his car remained in jail Monday on $50,000 cash bail.
July 23, 2012
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