Long Island Boy dies- Maine news

LONG ISLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The Cheverus High School and Long Island communities are mourning the loss of a promising young man.

Eighteen-year-old Benjamin LaMontagne died unexpectedly at his home on Long Island early Saturday morning.

On Wednesday, February 19, he had his wisdom teeth removed.

On February 22, at 1:12 a.m., the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office was notified of a medical emergency at his home on Long Island.

The Regional Communications Center reported that Benjamin's mother called and reported that her son was not breathing.

Emergency medical personnel from the Long Island Fire Department and Portland Fire Department were also notified and responded to the residence.

A patrol deputy from the mainland responded. The deputy met the Long Island Fire boat at the State Pier and was transported to the residence. The deputy arrived at the home at 2:10 a.m., where he met with members of the Long Island and Portland Fire Departments.

A preliminary investigation was conducted at the scene, and although the circumstances surrounding the cause of death are unknown, there are no indications of foul play.

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner was notified and the deceased was transported to the OCME's office in Augusta. On February 24 an autopsy was conducted, with toxicology results pending. At this time, the CCSO continues to work with the OCME to determine the official cause and manner of death.

Benjamin's friend, Christian Cilley, said he was well-known and well-liked at the high school, where he played several musical instruments and was on the sailling club.

Benjamin was planning to attend Gettysburg College in the fall to study music.

Cilley said his motto was "Everything happens for a reason." Now, his friends are trying to find the reason for his passing.

"That's the question," said Cilley. "It just doesn't make any sense. It just seems really unfair because...he was the best guy I knew.

God bless you Benjamin may you rest in peace!!

I am so sorry for your losss!!

Die !! death to these horrid inhumane abusive people that has ruined a boys life!

Every child abuse case is despicable. But some raise the bar (or lower it) to absolutely inhumane. This is one of those cases. The details are so gruesome and tragic -- luckily, it has a good ending. A Washington couple took in a 13-year-old relative, Jordan, who was sent to live with Brandon and Viviana Gunn by his mom, who thought they would be "good role models" for the teen, especially since the man had been in the Navy. The boy was the half-brother of Brandon, and his wife, Viviana, was Jordan's sister-in-law. Sending Jordan to live with them must be a decision that will haunt the boy's mother forever.

Instead of being good role models, the couple systematically abused the boy for months. In that time, he was reportedly lashed with an electric cord, bound with duct tape, hung from a bar in the garage, tortured and cut with a heated knife, and had alcohol sprayed into his wounds. He also reportedly had a staple gun used on his palm, his feet were pounded with a hammer, and he was kept in a dog kennel and given no food, only a sleeping pill. He also had a nail driven through his hand.

Jordan's mom claims she repeatedly tried to reach him by phone, but was always given excuses as to why he couldn't talk.

Things finally turned when the boy was bound with duct tape, which he then chewed through, and managed to escape the house. He stayed on his own in the streets for two weeks, stealing whatever food he could, until police found him.

His cuts, bruises, and scars spoke of the abuse he had endured. He had numerous skin infections from beatings -- and the remnants of a nail in his hand.

Cops searched the house and found the boy's blood everywhere. They also found everything the boy had described, from the staple gun to the dog kennel. Everything he said was backed up with evidence.

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The couple were arrested. The woman has been sentenced to 30 years in jail. Not enough time if you ask me. The man hasn't been sentenced yet.

I can't imagine a more horrific scenario for a young teen. This poor boy had the fortitude to escape, however. He now has a chance at a better life -- anything would be better than being with those demons.

But I truly hope he will be able to overcome the emotional scars of such deplorable behavior. My heart goes out to this teen.

Jordan's aunt started a funding page to raise money to bring him back home to Atlanta. At last update, he had spent Thanksgiving with his family. He has had weekly physical and psychological therapy and looks much better!

what should happen to these people?? death for both

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Standish man charged for child molestation

Submitted by Jackie Ward

Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 9:21pm

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WESTBROOK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A man from Standish has been indicted on child molestation charges.
68-year-old Harold Leeman has been indicted on multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact with a child under the age of 12.  It comes after a four-month investigation by the Westbrook Police Department.  Leeman lived in Westbrook from 1970 until 1991.  He then moved to Portland, but has been living in Standish since 1999.
Westbrook Police are asking anyone with more information on the charges to give them a call.

Portland, another drug crack bust!

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Police along with the Maine DEA blocked off part of Ocean Avenue in Portland Wednesday night to serve a search warrant, and detained four people.

Among the four detained, authorities tell CBS 13 that at least one will be arrested for aggravated drug trafficking.

Police carried out the raid at 144 Ocean Ave on the second floor apartment where they believe at least one person was selling crack-cocaine.

Drug agents say they acted quickly because the apartment is so close to the Ocean Ave Elementary School. The sign for the school is on the same corner as the home.

Sgt. Scott Pelletier with the MDEA says they brought in a tactical team to help serve the search warrants because of the people involved. They say the suspects are known to police, and officers wanted to take every precaution before serving the warrant. Pelletier says no one was hurt during the operation.

Augusta needs more hospital beds?

AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The new Maine General Hospital in Augusta has been open just four months and the amount of people using the new facility has taken everyone there by surprise.

It is beginning to cause some major headaches.

When Maine General Health announced plans to build a new hospital, it requested 226 beds. That was the same amount of beds in the two hospitals it was replacing in Augusta and Waterville. That request was denied by the state.

Since opening in November, the new $312 million hospital has been filled to capacity on several occasions. When all 192 beds are filled, the hospital staff must find room for additional patients in the Emergency Room.

"We offer them the option to be transferred somewhere else. If they want to stay then we typically move a stretcher out and move an inpatient bed into the emergency room itself" said Chuck Hays, Maine General's CEO.

Hospital officials are now monitoring the situation to see if this is just a particularly busy time or it becomes a trend. The hospital could request to add more beds but that project will cost a lot more than it would have under the original hospital construction.

Why so many people in the hospital?? is my question and maybe yours

an

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Maine: Bed and Breakfast Murders

Killed: 4

In the quiet, secluded town of Newry, the discovery of four bodies at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast over the 2006 Labor Day Weekend came as a horrifying shock. Killed were guest James Whitehurst, 50, inn owner Julie Bullard, 65, her daughter Selby Bullard, 30, and friend Cynthia Beatson, 43. All four bodies were dismembered; Whitehurst's was burned and dumped in the woods 15 miles away.Christian Nielsen (pictured), 31, a cook who had worked at another inn in a nearby town, was convicted of the murders and received a life sentence.MarylandMaryland: Dawson House Firebombing

Killed: 7

On October 16, 2002, a fatal fire claimed the lives of a courageous Baltimore woman and her family, after neighbor Darrell Brooks (pictured) firebombed their home. Angela Dawson, her husband Carnell and their five children all perished in an attack triggered by Angela telling police about criminal activity in her neighborhood. The murders are considered a fatal consequence of the controversial inner-city Stop Snitchin' ethos which threatens potential police informants with violence. Brooks pleaded guilty to the murders, and the house where the Dawsons once lived is now the Dawson Safe Haven Community Center (sign pictured).

Massachusetts: Wakefield Massacre

Killed: 7

Reportedly fueled by financial problems - his car was up for repossession and his wages were being garnished to pay overdue taxes to the IRS - software engineerMichael "Mucko" McDermott (pictured) targeted the Human Resources and Accounting departments at Edgewater Technologies in Wakefield during his December 26, 2000, shooting spree. After killing seven coworkers, whom police believe McDermott selected deliberately, he did not resist when police arrested him (pictured), telling them that he did not speak German. At trial, McDermott, a former Navy electrician, claimed that he had travelled back in time to kill Nazis. He was found guilty of seven counts of murder in the first degree and sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences without a chance of parole.

Michigan: Bath School Disaster

Killed: 45 + Self; Injured: 58

In the worst school mass murder in U.S. history, Andrew P. Kehoe (pictured), upset by a tax conflict, planted dynamite at a school in Bath. On May 18, 1927, Kehoe killed his wife, detonated the explosives at the school, tearing it apart (pictured) and finally exploded his own car, killing himself and several others.
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Minnesota: Red Lake Massacre

Killed: 10 + Self; Injured: 5

On March 21, 2005, Jeffrey Weise (pictured), a resident of Red Lake Indian Reservation, killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend before proceeding to his high school and opening fire on students and faculty. Police responding to the scene cornered Weise, 16, in a classroom where he took his own life with a shotgun blast to the chin. According to records, Weise spent a lot of time on the internet, where he posted on message boards on the topic of zombies, death and horrorcore music. Weise also created several violent animated shorts (pictured): view here.

Mississippi: Lockheed Martin Shooting

Killed: 6 + Self; Injured: 8

At the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, assembly line worker Douglas Williams(pictured) had a history making racist comments to his coworkers. On July 8, 2003, Williams was required to attend a diversity-awareness class. Instead, he left the meeting, went to his car and returned ready for battle. Armed with a shotgun and a Ruger Mini-14 rifle and draped with extra ammunition, Williams began firing at the class, shooting 14 co-workers, eight of them black. Five of the six who died from Williams' bullets were black; witnesses reported that Williams seemed to be aiming for black coworkers, particularly those who had reported him to human resources for his comments. At the end of his ten minute killing spree, Williams shot himself in front of his girlfriend, who also worked at the factory.

Missouri: Kirkwood Town Council Shooting

Killed: 6 + Self; Injured: 1

Outraged by a racially-charged dispute over land development in the Meacham Park area of St. Louis County, construction company owner Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton shot several people at a Kirkwood town council meeting on February 7, 2008, killing two council members, two police officers, a public works director and Kirkwood mayor, Mike Swoboda (pictured). Swoboda did not die at the time of the shooting; he spent seven months in the hospital before succumbing to his injuries. Thornton, who had amassed over a hundred municipal citations for performing construction work without proper permits, was shot and killed by police.

Montana: Motel Murders

Killed: 3; Injured: 1

David Thomas Dawson was executed by the state of Montana in August 2006 for the murders of three members of a family staying at a motel in Billings. Dawson (pictured) was staying next door to David and Monica Rodstein and their two children Andrew, 11, and Amy, 15. On April 18, 1986, an armed Dawson forced his way into their room and bound all four family members with duct tape. Dawson gagged them, stole their money, and then strangled David, Monica and Andrew with a telephone cord. Their bodies were discovered two days later in Dawson's own motel room, where Dawson was still staying. Amy survived the attack and was able to testify against Dawson at trial.

"I'll be Famous"

Robert Hawkins

By the age of six, according to the Omaha World-Herald, Robert Hawkins, the killer of eight Christmas shoppers at an Omaha mall in 2007, had been on medication for depression. At the time, he lived with his father and stepmother, his father's second wife. When he was two years old, his father had separated from his biological mother, an alleged substance abuser, and had taken him and his older sister away. He had gained two stepsiblings when his father remarried, and he had soon developed serious behavioral problems. He often acted out, biting, kicking, and hitting, so he was sent to therapy.

A fierce custody battled ensued, with the mother blaming the father for these problems, but the father countering with attacks on her allegedly poor parenting skills. A judge left the children with the father.

Robert continued to seek attention through quirky behaviors and general trouble-making. Finally, when he was fourteen, he threatened to kill his stepmother and so was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. He remained in treatment for nine months, but subsequently had two more admissions for a mood disorder, attention-deficit disorder, and oppositional defiance disorder. He also abused alcohol and drugs, so he ended up in foster care and group homes, as well as treatment programs. He seemed to enjoy the attention, especially from kids in the programs who looked up to him. However, he yearned to be home. He also failed to respond positively to the treatment, instead continuing to get into trouble in school and, according to some, selling drugs.

By his junior year in high school, Hawkins decided to drop out. He moved in with his father again, but, by his account, he was soon kicked out and so moved in with a friend's family. Seeming like a "lost pound puppy," he developed a belief that the world was against him. It made him feel as though he were a burden to those he loved, and this bothered him a great deal.

In November 2007, the nineteen-year-old faced a hearing for being in possession of alcohol. Then a girlfriend broke up with him, and, over an alleged theft, he lost his job at a local McDonald's. Angry and disappointed how life was turning out, he obtained, either by permission or theft, an SKS semi-automatic Russian military rifle owned by a relative. On December 6, he penned a suicide note which indicated that "now he would be famous," and went to the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb. There, dressed in a camouflage vest, he proceeded to the Von Maur department store and started shooting. Eight people died and five others were wounded. Finally, Hawkins turned the weapon on himself. It seemed he'd decided that life wasn't worth living, but in keeping with his recurring bids for attention had decided to pay the world back for his pain and make sure he was noticed. That's generally the goal of mass murders committed by adolescents.

Hawkins gave several signals that he could turn violent, given the right set of triggers, but, like some other notorious killers, successfully hid his true intent.

Murder in Augusta Maine

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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - An Augusta man has pleaded not guilty to killing his live-in girlfriend.

Justin Pillsbury, 39, remained held without bail after entering his plea to murder charges at an arraignment Wednesday in Kennebec County Superior Court.

Prosecutors say Pillsbury fatally stabbed Jillian Jones in their apartment in November in a fit of jealousy because she had talked to another man on the phone. Authorities say Pillsbury then tried to kill himself.

The couple's roommate discovered both bodies.

Pillsbury's lawyer tells the Kennebec Journal that while he could not comment on the substance of the case he is waiting for some discovery material from the state and Pillsbury's family is standing by him.

The attorney says would oppose the state's attempt to get records of Pillsbury's medical treatment.