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Police Blotter: Brockton murder suspects apprehended in Maine

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February 3, 2026

Police Blotter: Brockton murder suspects apprehended in Maine

Two suspects in a Brockton murder were arrested in Lewiston, Maine, on Monday, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.

Both suspects had been fugitives for months, the DA’s office said in a statement.

Michael Thompson, 35, faces a first degree murder charge while Dayana Slade, 25, was charged with accessory after the fact in connection to the killing of 40-year-old Mike Jonas.

Thompson allegedly shot Jonas following an altercation on September 23, 2025, the statement said, and was then seen on surveillance footage leaving the area of the shooting with Slade and another woman in a car.

Thompson and Slade are expected to be arraigned in the coming days.

Former Gloucester cop sentenced for child porn

A former Gloucester police officer was sentenced to four years in federal prison on a child porn charge.

Alexander Aiello, 34, was sentenced at the end of January after pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography in October, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s Office.

Following his prison sentence, Aiello will have five years of supervised release.

“On several occasions in 2024 and 2025, Aiello accessed a website on the dark web that was dedicated to downloading, viewing, advertising and distributing [child sexual abuse materials],” the statement said.

Law enforcement had searched Aiello’s residence in April 2025 where they said found an encrypted thumb drive that contained more than two hundred files of child porn.

Incident Summary

BPD responded to 286 incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to the department’s incident log. Those included arrests for one robbery, four aggravated assaults, three commercial burglaries, 18 larcenies, and four auto thefts.

Arrests

All of the below-named defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

— Jazmine Scott, 11 Page St., Dorchester. Shoplifting more than $100 by asportation.

— Rafael Canderlario, 49 St. Germaine St., Quincy. Distributing a Class B drug.

— Roque Rosario, 11 Cortes St., Boston. Possession of a Class B drug.

— Eduardo Rosario-Quinones, 291 Eustis St., Roxbury. Possession of a Class B drug.

— Danyell Hardy, 15 Frawley St., Roxbury. Assault and battery.

— Matthew Hennigan, 41 Mountain Ave., Norwood. Possession of a Class A drug.

— Tyler Jones, no address listed. Warrant arrest.

— Victor Santana, 2 Arion St., Dorchester. Distributing a Class B drug.

— Dayna Ram, 160 Westminster St., Hyde Park. Uninsured motor vehicle.

— Carlos Diaz Sarmiento, 58 Revere Beach Pkwy., Chelsea. Operating a motor vehicle with suspended license.

— Kimberly Burnett, 38 Browning Ave., Dorchester. Assault and battery.

— Trahern Combs, 170 Norfolk St., Dorchester. Distributing a Class A drug.

— Robert Guerra-Taylor, 34 Moultrie St., Dorchester. Shoplifting more than $100 by asportation.

— Chukwuma Ajene, 130 Hamilton St., Dorchester. Shoplifting by concealing merchandise.

— Rebecca Spencer, 150 Draper St., Dorchester. Shoplifting more than $250 by asportation.

— Damari Evans, 11 Abbotsford St., Roxbury. Trespassing.

— Julio Hordequint Lugo, 670 Columbia St., Dorchester. Uninsured motor vehicle.

— Santo Lara, 1865 Columbus Ave., Roxbury. Uninsured motor vehicle.

— Jude Bernardin, 31 Woolson St., Mattapan. Uninsured motor vehicle.

— Erick Conroy, 112 Southampton St., Boston. Trespassing.

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How a data center derailed $240,000 for affordable housing in Wiscasset

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May 11, 2026

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How a data center derailed 0,000 for affordable housing in Wiscasset

On a crisp afternoon in early April 2026, Richard Davis walked to the end of a boat launch on the Back River, a tidal channel that cuts through Midcoast Maine’s rocky coastline. As the tide swept in, Davis, co-founder of a local group called Protect Wiscasset and an area resident, fixed his attention on the […]

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Mother’s Day brings boom in flower sales across Maine

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May 11, 2026

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Mother’s Day brings boom in flower sales across Maine

It wouldn’t be Mother’s Day without a stop at the florist.

According to Fox Business, about 154 million flowers are sold during the week of Mother’s Day. So it’s safe to say it was a busy day for stores like Estabrook’s Maine Garden Center and Nursery.

Plenty of families stopped by to pick out flowers on Sunday, looking to choose the perfect bouquet for their moms.

“I think Mother’s Day is tradition, you know, and so it’s great to see families here. We have a lot of new families that have come today for the first time with their young children and their mother. Watching the young kids and seeing how excited they are—their eyes light up at all the beautiful flowers,” Tom Estabrook, president of Estabrook’s, said.

Estabrook says Mother’s Day tends to be a great kickoff to the spring season.

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Maine Black Bears Swept By UMass Lowell In A Tight 5-4 Finish

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May 10, 2026

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Maine Black Bears Swept By UMass Lowell In A Tight 5-4 Finish

The Maine Baseball Team was swept by UMass Lowell in the weekend series, losing on Sunday 5-4.

UMaine scored 3 runs in the 5th inning and 1 in the 6th inning to lead 4-1, but the Riverhawks scored 2 runs in the 7th and then pushed across the tying and winning runs in the 9th inning for the win.

Thomas Stabley started for Maine and went 6.1 innings on the mound. He allowed 5 hits and 3 runs, striking out and walking 1. Owen Wheeler pitched 1.2 hitless innings striking out 2. Sebastian Holt pitched the 9th and took the loss, allowing 2 hits and 2 runs, the big hit a 2-run homer to Nicholas Solozano, his 2nd of the day.

Hunter St. Denis homered for Maine, a solo shot, his 9th of the season, in the 6th inning.

Albert De La Rosa was 2-4. JuJu Stevens , Shane Andrus, Quinn Murphy and Chris Bear each singled.

UMass Lowell is 19-27 while Maine is now 17-30.

The Black Bears will host Merrimack on Tuesday, May 12th in a non-conference game at 2 p.m. The game will be broadcast on 92.9 The Ticket with the pregame starting at 1:30 p.m. Maine then closes out the regular season at home with a 3-game America East conference matchup with Albany Thursday- Saturday.

Check out photos from the game