May 26, 2006 News
FOUND with Rose's help: 2 missing 14 Year-old GIRLS: One girl is from Harrison, and the other from Waterford. Descriptions and photos were at Rosie's Lovell Village Store.

May 8, 2006 Update
June 16, 2002 - An armed home invasion, and attempted murder, of Robert and Ruth Phillipe at their home on Christian Hill Road. Cary Rand and Chad Lombard were charged with 2 felony counts each: Class A conspiracy to commit murder, and Class B attempted armed robbery.
Click for larger photo. Cary Rand (Born 1985) of Smarts Hill Road was sent to the Maine Youth Detention Center until the age of 21 in 2006. He is currently living in his family home.
May 8, 2003 - Chad Lombard (Born 1984) got 6 years in jail and 6 years probation. (Judge Thomas E. Delanty II sentenced Lombard to 10 years for conspiracy to commit murder, 10 years for robbery, 5 years for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. They were to run concurrently.) May 2006 - Chad Lombard is free, last seen after his release, in Norway on May 8, 2006. (Police log: Friday, May 12, 2006 - Chad Roy Lombard, 22, Oxford, probation violation, May 8, Norway police, no bail allowed.)
Paris man sentenced to one year on chase, probation violation
By M. Dirk Langeveld , Staff Writer
Saturday, July 19, 2008
PARIS - A man convicted in 2003 of conspiracy to commit murder was sent back to prison Friday on a probation violation.
Chad Roy Lombard, 24, of 11 Skillings Ave. in Paris, was sentenced in Oxford County Superior Court after pleading guilty to eluding an officer. Lombard was given a one-year sentence on the charge, concurrent with a partial revocation of his probation and was ordered to pay a $1,250 fine.
According to a report by Sgt. Timothy Ontengco of the Oxford County Sheriff's Office, Lombard led him on a 12-mile, high-speed chase through Lovell and Sweden on June 10. Ontengco said he tried to pull Lombard over on Route 93 for speeding, suspected operating under the influence and a loud muffler.
Lombard escaped a search by the Sheriff's Office and Maine State Police after crashing his vehicle on a logging road, Ontengco said. However, a witness told Ontengco that he had given Lombard a ride back to Paris after the chase, and that Lombard had said he intended to report his vehicle stolen.
Ontengco arrested Lombard on the eluding charge and misdemeanor charges of operating beyond license restriction or condition, failure to stop for an officer, criminal speed, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, improper plates and unsworn falsification.
In May 2003, Lombard pleaded guilty to Class A conspiracy to commit murder, Class A robbery, and Class C criminal threatening.
The incident occurred in June 2002 when Lombard and a male juvenile knocked on the door of Robert and Ruth Phillipe of Lovell and demanded the keys to Robert's truck at gunpoint. Robert slammed the door on the pair, and Lombard and the juvenile left after ripping phone wires from the house.
The two said they intended to steal a Corvette from the residence and not leave any witnesses to the crime.
Lombard was initially sentenced to serve six years of a 10-year sentence and six years of probation. However, the unsuspended portion of the sentence was reduced in January 2004 to four years after the sentence was appealed.
Assistant District Attorney Joe O'Connor said Lombard had been abiding by the conditions of probation until the chase.
"You're getting a break here," Justice Roland Cole told Lombard. "I hope you take advantage of it."Read

May 1, 2006 Update
The Oxford County Sheriff's Department has cleared many burglaries and car break in cases, involving area youths. They would like to thank the LNW as a great asset in solving these cases.
FYI: The bank robbers (read) 26-year-old Travis J. Blodgett of Sweden (and brother Avery, 24), apprehended by Trooper Andre Paradis on January 26, 2006, were not involved with these cases.
More information will be available at the next meeting on May 24. (Solved)
October 30, 2007 Update: Robber Sentenced For 10 Bank Robberies
CONCORD, N.H. -- A 27-year-old Maine man has been sentenced in federal court in New Hampshire to spend more than 19 years in prison for 10 bank robberies.
Travis Blodgett was sentenced Monday. He pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the robberies, which occurred between October 2005 and January 2006. He also pleaded guilty to charges of using a gun in one robbery and attempting to escape from jail.
He also was sentenced to five years probation after his release.
Blodgett's brother, Avery Blodgett, also pleaded guilty to the robberies.
The Blodgett brothers grew up in Concord but more recently were living in Sweden, Maine, where they were arrested last year.(read)

April 28, 2006
A report came in from a zone captain that a car alarm kept sounding and she was concerned . A member of the watch group went to his house to check on him. Seems he had the remote for the car in his pocket and sat on the alarm button and could not get it shut off easily. All things turned out well, this is just another example of the good things the Watch can do.

April 20, 2006 8:00 PM
A vehicle traveling from Lovell Village to Sweden on Route 93 was struck with paint balls. The victims recognized the offenders. This has been reported to law enforcement officers. (Solved)

April 20, 2006 11:15 AM
Claire Walker on Route 93 reported two boys in mid teens entered her yard and took a camera from her son's car. They saw the teens and Claire's son went out and got the camera back from them. The teens said they were desperate for money. They were both dark hair, one wearing a dark shirt the other no shirt. They were last seen walking toward Lovell village. (Solved)

April 8, 2006 Police Log
Nicholas Leonard Durgin, 18, Sweden, furnishing marijuana, Fryeburg police, April 8, $500 unsecured bail.
Stephanie M. Brass, 18, Sumner, furnishing schedule Z drug, April 8, Fryeburg police, $500 unsecured bail. Found guilty and paid a fine of $300. (From The Bridgton News 9/7/06)
Dustin N. Locke, 18, Lovell, furnishing schedule Z drug (marijuana), April 8, Fryeburg police, $500 unsecured bail. (Read) Mr. Locke was found guilty and fined $500. on this charge. Fined $300. and $350. on a May 21, 2006 charge in Sweden. An April 12, 2006 charge of possession of drug paraphernalia in Fryeburg was dismissed for his guilty pleas to the other charges. (From The Bridgton News 9/7/06)

Propane truck driver critical after crash
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 By Kerri Pepoy, Staff Writer
LOVELL - A man from North Conway, N.H., was in critical condition Monday at Maine Medical Center in Portland after the propane tanker truck he was driving struck a guardrail and utility pole on Route 5.
Michael Fougere, 46, was taken by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and stabilized and then transported to Maine Medical Center, said Trooper Adam Fillebrown of the Maine State Police.
The accident occurred about 9:30 a.m. Monday. Fillebrown said Fougere was driving a propane delivery truck and apparently lost control of the vehicle while traveling south on Route 5 in Lovell. The accident occurred at Route 5 and Slab City Road.
The truck went off the road then came back on the road, crossed over into the northbound lane, and struck a guardrail, Fillebrown said. The truck then rolled over the guardrail and down an embankment, striking a utility pole along the way.
"He caught a telephone pole and snapped that," said Fillebrown. "Part of the pole came down on the cab of the truck."
Fougere was ejected from the truck and the vehicle landed on the passenger side. Fillebrown said Fougere's injuries appeared to be "neck issues and trauma." Fougere was conscious at the scene.
No one else was injured. Route 5 was closed to traffic for approximately seven hours while the scene was cleared. Utility workers from Central Maine Power Co. were at the scene to repair the utility pole and fallen wires.
Emergency workers drained propane from the truck before it was removed from the area. Fillebrown said some areas of Lovell were apparently without power for several hours while the utility lines were shut off.
The accident is under investigation. Fillebrown said speed was not a factor.