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September 8, 2017 Morning Sentinel centralmaine.com BY BETTY ADAMS Staff Writer AUGUSTA Emmanual Hur- tado, of Waterville, gave a seem- ingly heartfelt apology in court Wednesday for his bad behavior related to a robbery and theft, saying he intended to do better. The intent was short-lived. Minutes later, as he was sign- ing the court paperwork listing his three-year prison term, he took the pen and shortened it to two years. That move in the presence of two sheriff deputies cost Hurtado an additional two years in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday to the resulting class aggravated forgery charge. apologize for the burden Hurtado, 26, had told Jus- tice Donald Marden at Wednesday hearing.

most of these cases, I was highly intoxi- Marden impressed when Hurtado returned to court Thursday on the new forgery charge. we dealt with the act of putting on a mask and scaring the daylights out of an innocent clerk in a store in an act to get money. You said you were sorry and you wanted to get things squared Marden said. this act is just plain stupid, and if it had not been caught and not been seen at the time and dealt with imme- diately, it would have raised hav- oc with the prison He also told Hurtado, going to have to walk the straight and Hurtado said he started a group in jail to help himself and others dealing with substance abuse and has had meetings for 25 weeks. do a lot for my com- munity and I am looking forward to getting out.

Unfortunately, I have these That apology came after he pleaded guilty to the Jan. 28, 2017, robbery of the Mobil on the Run in Waterville, which netted him cigarettes and $38, according to the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Michael Madigan. A store clerk reported that a man had forced his way through locked doors about 5:45 a.m. that day while she was counting mon- ey from the previous shifts, ac- cording to an affidavit by Water- ville police Officer David Caron. The clerk said the intruder yelled, me them ciga- as he approached the counter and then climbed over Forging paperwork adds time to sentence Waterville man tries to knock one year off prison, gets two more BY AMY CALDER Staff Writer A 9-year-old girl from Liver- more Falls has been arrested and charged with creating a false alarm for making 911 calls that forced three Jay schools in Regional School Unit 73 to go into lockdown on Wednesday, according to police.

The girl allegedly reported that someone was in Spruce Mountain Middle School in Jay with a gun. Jay police Chief Richard Ca- ton IV said Thursday that the case will be taken to the juvenile court system. Creating a false public alarm is a class crime, he said. Asked why the girl, a fourth-grader at Spruce Moun- tain Elementary School in Jay, made the threat, Caton said it is not clear. this point, still undeter- he said.

think she fully understands what she did and the aftermath of what she has done. I think was clear at the time of talking to Caton said this is the first time his department has dealt with someone so young in such a case. had no contact with her he said. He said he thinks the juvenile court system will recommend some sort of counseling for the girl, and he does not think it will involve being put in a facility. School Superintendent Ken- neth Healey said on Wednesday as police were investigating the case that the Franklin County Sheriff Department received a call around 8:30 a.m.

reporting a person with a gun was at the middle school. Jay police called both the mid- dle school and Spruce Moun- tain High School to notify offi- cials there of the situation and those schools were placed in lockdown mode, meaning no one could enter the buildings, he said. As a precaution, Spruce Mountain Elementary School also was placed under lock- down, Healey said. 9-year-old charged in Jay lockdown Police: Fourth-grade 911 calls caused alarm at three RSU 73 schools BY MADELINE ST. AMOUR Staff Writer CHINA The Board of Ap- peals met for the second time in two months to decide on another appeal of an action taken by the code enforcement officer, Paul Mitnik.

In this case, Kevin Meader ap- pealed the placement of a dock on 13 58th Fire Road. While the neighbors went to court and agreed on a private right of way, Meader said it stipulates that there be any structures in the area, but Sheila Higgins has placed a dock in the area. A copy of the right-of-way doc- ument was not provided in the testimony. The board voted to deny the appeal, 6-0, because of its finding that the dock is grandfathered, and therefore the board does not have jurisdiction over the case. The board also voted, 5-0 with two abstentions, on a finding of fact that the dock is grandfa- thered because there was evi- dence and testimony that it has been there for many years, so it require a permit.

It also voted, 5-1, that the right of way has not been defined fully and therefore the board cannot make a judgment on the issue. The dispute over the private right of way and land ownership has been going on for years, ac- cording to documents in the ap- peals packet. In August 2011, the Meaders asked the Higginses to take out the dock. An attorney for the Mead- ers, Warren Shay, of Perkins, Townsend, Shay and Talbot, P.A., issued a notice to Sheila Higgins saying that she must remove the dock. The dock was removed that month with a sheriff present, as well as the lawyer, Joann Austin, of the Austin Law Office, and placed on the Hig- property.

CHINA Board denies appeal on dock Staff photo by David Leaming Wearing safety face masks, Kobee Maddux, left, and Connor Rodrigue open fire on each other with soft plastic pellet guns while playing on Sunday in Waterville. BY KEVIN MILLER Portland Press Herald AUGUSTA The secretary of office on Thursday released the text of ballot ques- tions that will be presented to voters this November, making changes to two controversial referendums on Medicaid expansion and a proposal for a York County casino. Maine voters will decide on four ballot questions this fall: whether to authorize a York County casino, to expand the state Medicaid program known as MaineCare, to approve a $105 million bond proposal and to reduce market volatility in state pension plans. Illustrating the political un- dertones on Question 2, Repub- lican officials cheered a slight change to the final wording of the Medicaid expansion refer- endum replacing the word with even if it go as far as they had hoped. Secretary of State Matt office said Question 2 which would pro- vide MaineCare to an addition- al 70,000 low-income adults will appear as the following on the November ballot: you want Maine to ex- pand Medicaid to provide healthcare coverage for qual- ified adults under age 65 with incomes at or below of the federal poverty level, which in 2017 means $16,643 for a sin- gle person and $22,412 for a family of As initially proposed, Ques- tion 2 would have asked wheth- er Mainers wanted to health insurance through Med- icaid for qualified But in news conferences and public comments filed with office, Republican lawmakers and party officials objected to the word as they attempted to portray Medic- aid as or govern- ment-funded health In Question 1, the referen- dum on the York County casi- no, office removed the word in ref- erence to the company that seeks authorization to build the slots and table games facility.

office received more than 150 public comments on the proposed wordings of the ballot questions. the ballot questions is always a challenge, given the need to accurately summarize complex Dunlap said in a statement. try to capture the essence of each proposal in the question, but it is incumbent upon the voters to educate themselves on all of the details, which cannot be intelligibly included in that single sentence on the Kristen Muszynski, spokes- woman for office, said staff carefully reviewed the roughly 150 comments, includ- ing those that raised concerns about references to an state talked about it and felt it was not necessary and, in fact, it may be language that could touch off some against an out-of-state entity, Muszynski said. Additionally, while the com- pany pursuing the casino au- thorization is located outside of Maine, the law does not preclude the company from transferring Medicaid, casino ballot wording changes Secretary of state refers to not removes PELLET GUN LOCKDOWN, PAGE B2 HURTADO FORGERY, PAGE B2 APPEAL, PAGE B2BALLOT, PAGE B2 All prices include Rebates, Business and Dealer Incentives. Tax not included.

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