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2 Men Charged in Armed Robbery of Brewer Store 11/29/08

BREWER, Maine — Two men have been charged in connection with a Halloween night armed robbery at the Family Dollar store in Brewer, police Capt. Jason Moffitt said Friday.

Charles Dion, 20, of Glenburn and Jesse Hatch, 19, of Eddington spent Thanksgiving in Penobscot County Jail after being arrested on armed robbery charges late Wednesday. Read more here..

Two men arrested in Halloween night robbery 11/28/08
BREWER, Maine — Two male suspects have been caught and charged in connection with an armed robbery at the Family Dollar Store in Brewer on Halloween night, Brewer police Capt. Jason Moffitt said Friday. Read more here..

Brewer Dedicates Public Safety Building 11/8/08

BREWER, Maine — Cpl. Roger Hershey said he won’t miss the water stains on the ceiling, bad air flow, mold or the smell of marijuana wafting in from the evidence room. Read more here..

Sept. 11 steel finds home in Brewer 10/29/08

QUEENS, New York — Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport holds no airplanes — only hundreds of untold stories of lives torn apart and piles of mutilated, disfigured steel that once formed the skeleton of the World Trade Center that was brought down by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Read more here...

Man gets 76 months in prison after yearlong cocaine probe 10/28/08

BANGOR, Maine — A Florida man was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court to more than six years in prison on drug charges.

Pedro Julio Rosario, also known as Justino Soto, 49, of Groveland Park, Fla., was sentenced to 76 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Read more here..

Man pleads not guilty in drug case 10/24/08

BANGOR, Maine — The man accused of being the mastermind behind a scheme to distribute more than 10 pounds of cocaine in northern Penobscot County pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges Thursday in U.S. District Court. Read more here.