UPDATE: Castle Builders owner Malcolm Stewart indicted by Knox County Grand Jury
Sarah Shepherd Sun, 04/11/2021 - 6:30pm
ROCKLAND (April 11) The attorney for Malcolm Stewart, 56, who was indicted by the Knox County grand jury in March for theft by deception from consumers throughout the Midcoast, has filed a motion in Knox County court to arrange a hearing for his client to turn himself in to the court on an arrest warrant.
The court issued a warrant for Stewart’s arrest warrant March 25 and set bail at $50,000 cash. He is now residing in Pelzer, South Carolina.
Stewart, the owner of Castle Builders in Union, closed his business without notice after he allegedly collected deposits of over $400,000 from 57 consumers for home construction projects that he knew he did not have the capacity to complete, Maine Attorney General Aaron M. Frey said in a news release.
BELFAST In addition to issuing two traffic citations unrelated to additional charges, Belfast police reported the following activity March 22 - April 2. An arrest does not constitute a conviction, and those charged are considered innocent unless.
BELFAST In addition to issuing one traffic citation unrelated to additional charges, the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department reported the following activity Feb. 20 - April 6.
An arrest does not constitute a conviction, and those charged are considered innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Juveniles age 17-or-younger are not named.
Feb. 20
Travis King, 42, of Bucksport, was issued a summons for unlawful possession of a schedule W drug in Frankfort.
Feb. 22
Roy W. Anderson, 37, of Millinocket, was issued summonses for burglary and theft on Lakewood Lane in Swanville, stemming from an incident Feb. 20.
March 12
Detective Cassandra McDonald responded to the scene of a deer v. vehicle accident on Bangor Road in Troy. The driver and passenger were uninjured in the crash; their vehicle was towed from the scene due to disabling damages.
Two-vehicle Rockport crash sends one to hospital
Lynda Clancy Mon, 04/12/2021 - 12:00pm
A crash on Route 1 near Guinea Ridge Farm and Beech Hill Road closed the road for approximately 20 minutes April 12. (Photo courtesy Kipp Wright)
(Photo courtesy Kipp Wright)
ROCKPORT A portion of Route 1 (Commercial Street) close to the intersection of Beech Hill Road was closed for approximately 20 minutes late in the morning April 12, while Rockport firefighters and a crew from North East Mobile Health Services tended to two drivers involved in a crash.
One driver in a Honda CRV was making a turn off of Beech Hill, though it is unclear whether she was making a left or a right, but apparently accelerated into the path of an oncoming BMW convertible that was heading south on Route 1, said Fire Chief Jason Peasley.
SUSAN JOHNS
File photo
March 26, 2001 in Edgecomb, Carol Daigneault’s northbound SUV was turning from Route 1 onto Route 27 when the car hit black ice and tipped onto its side, smashing Daigneault’s arm through the driver’s side window and pinning it under the car. “After a few futile attempts to call into the blackness for help, I lost consciousness,” the Rockport woman writes in a new letter to Wiscasset Fire Chief Rob Bickford and the department.
Daigneault’s letter came with a $1,000 donation to the department.
Bickford received the letter and donation in the mail March 29. Responding to questions from Wiscasset Newspaper April 2, Bickford said, “I was surprised to read about how the event still affected her 20 years later. We haven’t yet discussed what we will use the money for but will use it exactly as she wishes.”