Chris Williams covers courts and daytime crime at the Sun Journal where he has been a staff writer for more than two decades. He reports on local, state and federal courts as well as spot news, crashes, fires and other general mayhem. During his time at the Sun Journal, he has served on Sunday and enterprise staff, covering politics, state government, environmental and health care issues, sometimes tackling investigative stories. When he's not on the beat, Chris enjoys sailing, skiing and restoring his Victorian era home.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2019
Norway man arrested after fleeing crash scene
MECHANIC FALLS — A Norway man who crashed a pickup truck on Pleasant Street on Tuesday night causing serious injury to a passenger was arrested Wednesday morning after turning himself in to police. Eric Campbell, 33, was charged with aggravated driving to endanger and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident. Each charge is […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2019
Lewiston man charged with stealing pot at gunpoint
AUBURN — A Lewiston man, who police said broke into an Oxford Street apartment last month, threatened tenants at gunpoint and stole marijuana, was charged Tuesday with robbery, burglary and theft. Dominique Bailey, 29, of 33 Winter St., faces two felonies handed up by an Androscoggin County grand jury. Each is punishable by up to […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2019
Livermore man charged with manslaughter in 2018 Turner fatal crash
AUBURN — A Livermore man was charged Tuesday with manslaughter and aggravated criminal drunken driving stemming from a May 24 crash in Turner that killed a 54-year-old Jay man. An Androscoggin County grand jury indicted Christian J. Parlin, 24, on the two felonies. The manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, […]
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2019
Lisbon man argues for new trial
PORTLAND — A Lisbon man convicted of attempted murder of Auburn police argued through his lawyer Monday before the state’s highest court that he should be granted a new trial because his trial attorney had blocked him from testifying in his defense. Bartolo Ford, 57, was convicted by a jury in 2010 of aggravated attempted […]
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2019
Lewiston man gets 3 years for beating woman
Kendrick Leonard sits in Androscoggin County Superior Court on Wednesday awaiting sentencing on an assault charge. AUBURN — A Lewiston man was sentenced to serve three years of a six-year prison sentence for beating a woman with stick, breaking her arm and giving here a severe concussion. Kendrick Leonard, 31, of 113 Bartlett St. pleaded […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2019
Former Freeport teacher to serve 8 years in prison for sex assault of student
AUBURN — A former math teacher at a Freeport Christian school was sentenced Wednesday to serve eight years of an 13-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to 10 felony sex charges involving a 15-year-old student. Derek Michael Boyce, 37 of Woolwich apologized to the girl, who read a statement to the court. “You made […]
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2019
Two men arrested after suspected heroin death in Auburn
AUBURN — Authorities on Monday charged two men with drug trafficking after a 29-year-old man on Riverside Drive died from an apparent heroin overdose Sunday morning. An investigation by Auburn detectives and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency led police to search the home of Kevin M. Camp, 41, at 26 Fifth St. in Auburn, where […]
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2019
Lisbon man who crashed stolen truck into Auburn Mall pleads to felony
LEWISTON — A Lisbon man who police said escaped from a residential facility and drove a stolen truck through entrance doors at the Auburn Mall in September 2018 admitted Friday to a related felony. Tyler Nickerson, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal mischief, a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison. […]
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2019
South China man leads Auburn police on chase through city
LEWISTON — A South China man who police said led them on a car and foot chase after fleeing a crash in Auburn on Saturday night appeared in court Tuesday in handcuffs. Robert Conklin Jr., 43, was charged with eight crimes, including eluding an officer, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. […]
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2019
Seth Carey files appeal of license suspension
PORTLAND — Suspended Auburn attorney and recent unsuccessful candidate for district attorney Seth Carey is appealing a judge’s order for a three-year suspension for several bar rules violations. Carey, representing himself, filed Thursday at the office of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court notice of his appeal of his suspension and a judge’s ruling that he […]
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