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3 Found Dead in Burning Car in Maine Parking Lot
August 13, 2012

Surveillance videos may shed some light on a fire that engulfed a car with three people inside early Monday, with one video showing a person running from the scene and another showing several vehicles driving by minutes before the fire began.

Stratham Tire manager Jeff Gordon said his surveillance video showed an orange glow just three minutes after vehicles headed in that general direction. The burning car, off camera, was about 100 yards away in a different parking lot.

Another video, from Automatic Distributors, showed a person running away from the location near Target Industrial Circle, an employee told the Bangor Daily News.

The burning car with Rhode Island license plates was reported by a radio announcer who saw flames on her way to work at 3:30 a.m. The intense heat popped the car's tires and burst its windows, leaving behind a blackened hulk.
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Three found dead in burning car in Bangor; ‘we’re going to solve this,’ police chief says
August 13, 2012

BANGOR, Maine — Police worked well into the night Monday as they sought to identify three people found dead hours earlier inside a badly burned car in the back parking lot of a local business.
“It takes time,” Bangor Police Chief Ron Gastia said as he was leaving the grisly scene Monday afternoon. “We’re still working it.”
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Gastia added that even after the victims are identified, detectives will “verify and reverify” the names before they are released.
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Police identified the year and make of the car — a white 2001 Pontiac sedan with Rhode Island plates — on Monday night.

Bangor resident Shannon Lee arrived at the scene just before 7 p.m. after speaking with detectives about the father of her daughter. She said she thinks he was in the destroyed car.

“I couldn’t get ahold of him all night and his girlfriend called at like 5:30 a.m.” looking for him, she said. “Someone saw him get into a white Pontiac with Rhode Island plates at a party last night” with another female friend, who is 25 and from Bangor.

The father of her child is 26 and from Levant. She said police have asked that she bring her 7-year-old daughter to the police station on Tuesday so they can get a DNA sample.

“I’ll bring her down for a mouth swab and we’ll see,” Lee said. “I know in my heart that it is him.”

She added that “no one has heard from [the 25-year-old woman].”
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No detail is too small to report, the sergeant said. The Rhode Island license plate on the car had the registration number 583-399. Rhode Island State Police said Monday that they do not release vehicle registration information to the public.

Even though the car is registered in the Ocean State, “I’m not saying it’s from Rhode Island,” Edwards said.

Police also spent time Monday reviewing video surveillance images taken by area businesses at the time of the fire.

A person is visible on surveillance images taken from Automatic Distributors, employee Gary Shaw said Monday morning.
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AG’s office takes over burned-car case; Bangor police seek to identify person seen running from fire
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Burning-car deaths ruled triple homicide; police continue to seek man who walked away

BANGOR, Maine — The deaths of three people who were found in a burned-out car earlier this week in Bangor have been ruled a triple homicide, the Maine attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

“The manner is homicide,” said Brenda Kielty, a special assistant in the attorney general’s office. “The cause has not been released and the identities [of the three victims] will be released as soon as they are confirmed.”

The medical examiner is still working to positively confirm the identities of the three people, she said, adding that the names may be released this week but possibly not until next week.

Details about how the three people died are being withheld because they are part of the ongoing investigation, Kielty said.

The attorney general’s office took over the case shortly after the three autopsies were completed Tuesday.
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Families provide DNA to identify victims of car fire

9:44 AM, Aug 15, 2012

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The investigation continues into the three bodies found in a burning car early Monday morning. While authorities have yet to identify the victims, police have been talking to people who believe their loved ones may be among the victims.

The bodies were taken to Augusta Monday afternoon for autopsies. The Attorney General's office requested that no further information about the identities or the cause of death be released Tuesday. But people we spoke with Tuesday think they know who at least two of the victims are.

A source tells us the three alleged victims attended a gathering at Bolling Drive in Bangor. They were seen getting in the white, 2001 Pontiac sedan. The resident of the apartment confirmed that two of the people that drove off in the car were Daniel Borders and Nicole Lugdon. According to the resident, the passengers were supposed to return in a few minutes, but they never did.
Bangor Police Sergeant Paul Edwards says he does not expect the identities to be released for at least a few more days. But that has not stopped people from coming to the police station offering a DNA sample to know if it was their family member in that car.
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3 homicide victims in burned-out car identified
Last modified Aug. 17, 2012, at 9:08 p.m.

BANGOR, Maine — The state medical examiner’s office has positively identified the three people whose bodies were found early Monday in a car that was left ablaze in the back parking lot of a local business.

Daniel Thomas Borders, 26, of Hermon; Nicolle Ashley Lugdon, 24, of Eddington; and Lucas Alan Tuscano, 28, of Bradford are the three homicide victims, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards announced Friday evening.

“The manner of death has been ruled a homicide and the cause of death is being withheld for investigative purposes,” he said.

Lugdon and Borders both have young daughters, their Facebook pages and friends have said. Little information was available about Tuscano, and attempts to reach family members of Lugdon and Borders were unsuccessful Friday night.
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Lugdon’s name was released about 1:20 p.m. Friday by Bangor police because her family is upset that a vigil and fundraising effort are being planned without their consent.

“They think it’s people trying to gain by exploiting their granddaughter,” Edwards said. “The family of Nicolle Lugdon is asking for them to stop.”

A longtime friend of Lugdon, who has been speaking with her family, said Lugdon was positively identified earlier this week by a metal plate in her arm.
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The Maine attorney general’s office took over the case shortly after the three autopsies were completed Tuesday and announced Wednesday that the three people in the car died by someone else’s hand. Brenda Kielty, a special assistant in the attorney general’s office, said Friday that she could not answer questions about whether investigators have identified a person of interest in the triple homicide.

Police are searching for a person seen on video surveillance images from Automatic Distributors walking away from the burning car.

“The investigation is progressing and we’re moving forward,” Lt. Tim Reid, who leads the Bangor Police Department’s detective division, said Friday.

Reid also said he could not disclose whether the department has identified a person of interest.
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Friends of Lugdon and Borders gathered at the scene of the car fire Monday night after talking to Bangor police detectives. They said they feared that their friends were dead because they got into a white Pontiac with Rhode Island plates after leaving a birthday party early Monday and afterward no one was able to get in touch with them.

Lugdon’s sister was dating Borders, according to their friends and to the Facebook pages of the sister and Borders.

The car found ablaze was identified by police as a white 2001 Pontiac with Rhode Island plates.

While police have not mentioned drugs in connection with the triple homicide, Borders and Lugdon both have drug convictions, according to court listings printed in the Bangor Daily News.

Borders’ criminal history includes convictions for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs in September 2009, assault in December 2010 and a Massachusetts arrest for trafficking in cocaine in June 2009.
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Victims of triple homicide’s last moments traced
Posted Aug. 19, 2012, at 7:57 p.m.
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BANGOR, Maine — While police continue to investigate who is responsible for taking the lives of three people found last week in a car that was left ablaze in a dark parking lot, friends and loved ones of the victims piece together the last moments of their lives.

They all say Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon, Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington, and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford — the three homicide victims — were at a small gathering in Bangor and left together in a white Pontiac with Rhode Island plates.

The car was driven by an out-of-state man who comes to Maine on occasion, always in a rental car, the victims’ friends said, using his name, which the Bangor Daily News is withholding because he has not been charged with any crime.

The out-of-state man, who knew Lugdon and Borders, reportedly knocked on the front door of the apartment about 1 a.m. on Aug. 13 and left with the three homicide victims, possibly to go smoke marijuana.

“I don’t know what the hell happened after they left,” the man who hosted the small gathering said, adding he and his family are no longer living at that residence.

The man driving the rental car came to pick up Borders. Lugdon, who wanted to smoke, reportedly invited herself and Tuscano followed her.
“Luke doesn’t even know these people [who hosted the gathering], but he was there just to hang out with Nikki,” said Bangor resident Tiffany Sutherland, who said she left the small party of five people about an hour before the out-of-state visitor arrived. “She’s the only one he knew there, so he went with her.
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Bangor triple homicide investigation leaves state, police say

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BANGOR, Maine — Detectives trying to find out who is responsible for the deaths of three people found a week ago in a car that was left ablaze in a dark parking lot are following out-of-state leads, Bangor Sgt. Paul Edwards said Tuesday.

At the same time, rumors circulating that the three were on a hit list has friends and relatives of the homicide victims running scared that they too may be on the list, the sergeant said.
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“I can tell you we’ve gone out of state,” Edwards said of the investigation, but declined to release where specifically, saying only that detectives are following leads somewhere in New England.

No arrests have been made, he said.

The car was driven by an out-of-state man who comes to Maine on occasion, always in a rental car, the victims’ friends have said, using his name, which the Bangor Daily News is withholding because he has not been charged with any crime.

The out-of-state man, who friends say knew Lugdon and Borders, reportedly knocked on the front door of a Bangor apartment about 1 a.m. on Aug. 13 and left with the three homicide victims, possibly to go smoke marijuana.

Police are not saying if they have interviewed the out-of-state man.

“I can’t answer that,” Edwards said.
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Whether the person in the video is the same man who picked up Borders, Lugdon and Tuscano is a question that police are trying to answer. While Bangor continues to be the lead investigative agency, the Maine attorney general’s office took over the case shortly after the medical examiner determined that the deaths were homicides.

Bangor police have partnered with Maine State Police detectives and investigators from the state fire marshal’s office, all of whom continue to probe the triple homicide, Edwards said.

Friends of the victims have called police about reports that there is a hit list, he said.

“People are saying it on Facebook,” Edwards said. “We’ve heard that there is a list. I have no idea if there is or not.”

A friend of Lugdon, whose sister was dating Borders, called police about the rumored hit list.

“She’s is convinced there is a list and she’s on it,” the sergeant said.
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Bangor police chief still confident triple homicide will be solved

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BANGOR, Maine — As the investigation into a triple homicide nears the end of its third week, Bangor Police Chief Ron Gastia still is certain the killer or killers will be caught.
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“I am very confident that this case will be solved,” Gastia said Friday in an email. “Progress continues to be made, and this case will continue to be a priority until the responsible person or persons are identified and charged.”
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The person driving the car was caught by video surveillance cameras walking away from the burning car. Police are tight-lipped about who they believe was driving the out-of-state car and whether they have interviewed the person.

“I can’t give you that,” Bangor police Detective Sgt. Paul Kenison said Friday. “We would be premature to throw out any names or people of interest.”

Police also are not releasing how the three homicide victims were killed, whether they were dead before the fire was started, and whether an accelerant was used to burn the car, the detective said. “We never talk about evidence.”
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MDEA assisting in month-old Bangor triple homicide
9-12-12

BANGOR, Maine — It has been a month since the horrific triple homicide that left three people in their 20s burned beyond recognition inside a car that was left ablaze, and investigators are now saying the case may have something to do with drugs.

Bangor police continue to search for the killer or killers and have asked the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency for assistance, Bangor police Detective Sgt. Paul Kenison said Tuesday.

“It’s a complex and very involved investigation,” he said. “We’ve been working with a lot of different agencies — they are one of them.”

Kenison would not say what the MDEA is doing to assist in the homicide investigation and he directed all questions to the drug agency’s division commander for northern Maine, who also declined to discuss the case.

No arrests have been made in the triple homicide and investigators are still unwilling to say if they have identified a person or persons of interest, Kenison said.

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Fugitive, 31, sought in Bangor triple homicide
Posted Sept. 28, 2012, at 9:39 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — Police are searching for a 31-year-old man in connection with the slayings of three people whose charred bodies were found in a burned-out car in Bangor in August.

Nicholas J. Sexton, 31, address unknown, is wanted on a fugitive from justice warrant for a triple homicide in Maine, according to a police log issued Thursday by the Brockton (Mass.) Police Department and obtained by the Bangor Daily News. Brockton Police Department dispatcher Robin Bell confirmed the information on the police log Friday afternoon.

“He’s a fugitive wanted on a signal 25, times three,” Bell said during a telephone interview. “Signal 25 is murder. It’s a triple murder.”

The Brockton police log does not say which law enforcement agency requested the fugitive from justice warrant for Sexton, except to say it’s from Maine.

“Maine wanted us to go pick him up,” Bell said. “We didn’t get him.”
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Sexton, who friends say knew Lugdon and Borders, reportedly knocked on the front door of a Bangor apartment about 1 a.m. on Aug. 13 and left with the three homicide victims, possibly to go smoke marijuana.

“We don’t know what the hell happened after they left,” the man who hosted the small gathering has said.
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Sexton is no stranger to violence or drugs, according to a background check done by the Maine State Bureau of Identification and court listings printed in the Bangor Daily News.

He stabbed a 35-year-old Bangor man in the neck early on July 31, 2005, in the parking lot of the Leadbetters Mini Stop at the corner of Hammond and Ohio streets in Bangor, the BDN archives state.

The victim was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center and released the next day. Sexton was indicted by the Penobscot County grand jury for elevated aggravated assault in September 2005 and was on the lam until December 2005, when he was picked up for seven outstanding warrants for violating conditions of release.

Sexton was convicted in Penobscot County Superior Court in March 2006 of elevated aggravated assault and sentenced to prison for eight years, with all but two years suspended. He was placed on probation for two years after he left prison and was ordered to pay $3,213 in restitution.

He also was convicted of three counts of violating his conditions of release and ordered to prison for one year for each count, to run concurrently with the assault sentence.

Sexton was arrested again for drug possession in early 2008, apparently shortly after he was discharged from prison. He was sentenced for that offense in April 2008 in Penobscot County Superior Court to 90 days in jail and a $400 fine.

Sexton’s last known address, according to the background check, was Rochester, Mass. The Plymouth County Correctional Facility, which covers the community of Rochester, had no listing of a Sexton picked up this week, a jail official said Friday.

Second suspect sought in Bangor triple homicide; victims were shot

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BANGOR, Maine — Fugitive from justice warrants have been issued for two out-of-state suspects police say shot three local people — two men and a woman — in a drug-related homicide, then set their bodies on fire in a car seven weeks ago in Bangor.

Police are searching for Nicholas J. Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., and Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 34, of Brockton, Mass., who have been charged with three counts of knowing or intentional murder and one count of arson, Bangor police Lt. Tim Reid said.

“We consider them armed and extremely dangerous,” Reid, who leads the department’s detective division, said at a press conference Monday afternoon.

Sexton and Daluz, who is also nicknamed “Money,” are wanted in connection to the deaths of Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon; Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington; and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford, whose bodies were found burned beyond recognition inside a white Pontiac sedan with Rhode Island plates that was discovered on fire early on Aug. 13.

“The cause of death [for all three victims] was determined to be by gunshot, and the case has been classified as homicide,” Reid said. “We view this as a drug-related homicide.”

The fire was deemed arson by the state fire marshal’s office, he said.
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One of two triple homicide suspects reportedly arrested in Mass.
Last modified Oct. 02, 2012, at 10:54 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — One of two men sought on fugitive from justice warrants in connection with a triple homicide in Bangor on Aug. 13 reportedly has been arrested.

Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 34, was arrested Tuesday in New Bedford, Mass., about 40 miles from his hometown of Brockton, Mass., a reporter for The Standard-Times, a New Bedford newspaper, said Tuesday evening.

Anika Clark confirmed the arrest with New Bedford Police Chief David Provencher at the request of the Bangor Daily News. The details of Daluz’s arrest — such as when and where it took place and who was involved — were not immediately available.

The other suspect, Nicholas J. Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., reportedly remains at large.

Calls by the Bangor Daily News to a number of police departments and officials involved in the case were not immediately returned.

Provencher told Clark that police from Bangor and Fall River, Mass., were involved in the arrest, but said he had not yet been briefed on all of the details.
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Police arrest second suspect in Bangor triple homicide Last modified Oct. 04, 2012, at 8:41 a.m.

BROCKTON, Mass. — Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with an August triple homicide in Bangor, Maine, according to Massachusetts State Police.

Nicholas Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., was arrested in Brockton, Mass., at about 4 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Massachusetts State Police.

“Police developed information that led to the address of a woman” on Montello Street in Brockton, according to the release. Police obtained a “no-knock” warrant, which was executed by the Massachusetts State Police Special Tactical Operations Team in coordination with the FBI and Brockton police.

Sexton was arrested and taken to the state police barracks in Middleboro, Mass., where he was charged as a fugitive from justice, according to the release. He is expected to be arraigned later Thursday in Brockton District Court.
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Daluz was arrested about 1 p.m. Tuesday in New Bedford by detectives acting on a tip from a nearby police department, New Bedford police Detective Capt. Steven Vicente said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

After police placed Daluz in an unmarked cruiser to take him to New Bedford police headquarters, he started talking about Sexton, according to Sgt. Dean Fredericks of New Bedford Police Department.

“While en route, Daluz began talking spontaneously and told me, ‘I’m lucky to be alive, and … if he didn’t run out of bullets I’d be dead too,’” Fredericks said in court documents released Wednesday.

“I didn’t kill anybody. Nick did it, not me,” Daluz told the sergeant. “I’m afraid of him and I’m afraid he’s going to go after my family,” he added.
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Suspect in triple homicides pleads not guilty to 3 murders, arson; judge denies bail 10.4.12

BANGOR, Maine — A New Bedford, Mass., man on Thursday, less than 48 hours after his arrest, denied killing three people and setting them ablaze.

Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 34, of Brockton, Mass., pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and one count of arson in what police have called a drug-related crime during a brief hearing at the Penobscot Judicial Center.

Superior Court Justice Ann Murray ordered that Daluz be held without bail. The judge appointed attorney Jeffrey Silverstein of Bangor to represent Daluz.

Daluz waived extradition Wednesday in a Massachusetts court and was returned, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Wednesday. Escorted by Bangor police detectives, he arrived at the Penobscot County Jail shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Police arrested early Thursday Nicholas J. Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., the man Daluz told reportedly told investigators was responsible for the slayings of Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon; Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington; and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford on Aug. 13.

He was expected to have a first court appearance later Thursday in Massachusetts, but information about when he would be returned to Maine was not immediately available.
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Triple murder suspect nabbed in overnight raid, fights extradition to Maine
Last modified Oct. 05, 2012, at 6:26 a.m.

The Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, FBI and local police had their guns drawn as they ambushed and arrested triple murder suspect Nicholas J. Sexton early Thursday morning during a “no-knock” raid in Brockton, Mass.

Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., was arrested at a woman’s house in Brockton at about 4 a.m. on a fugitive from justice warrant from Maine in connection with the drug-related triple homicide this summer in Bangor, according to Massachusetts State Police.

Sexton was unarmed when arrested and did not struggle with law enforcement, Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said.

A Brockton District Court clerk said Sexton is fighting extradition to Maine and that his case has been continued to Oct. 31. He is being held without bail, said a spokeswoman in the Plymouth County (Mass.) district attorney’s office.
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Detectives traveling to Massachusetts to bring triple murder suspect to Bangor
11-1-12

BANGOR, Maine — A judge in Brockton, Mass., ordered Wednesday that Nicholas J. Sexton — one of two men accused of murder in the slayings of three people whose bodies were found in a burned-out car in Bangor this summer — be returned to Maine.

Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said in a press release Thursday morning that Bangor detectives were on their way to Massachusetts to bring Sexton to Penobscot County Jail. He did not know when specifically they might arrive. Edwards said Wednesday that Sexton could be in court in Bangor as early as Friday.

Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., was arrested Oct. 4 at gunpoint in Brockton on a fugitive from justice warrant from Maine in connection with the Aug. 13 triple homicides. He appeared in Brockton District Court on Wednesday in front of Judge Paul Dawley, according to the Brockton Enterprise newspaper.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked that Sexton be returned to Maine, and the judge agreed.
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Second man pleads not guilty to triple homicide in Bangor this summer
Last modified Nov. 05, 2012, at 1:28 p.m.

BANGOR, Maine — A second man pleaded not guilty Monday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to slaying three people this summer, then setting them ablaze in a rental car in what police have called a grisly, drug-related triple homicide.

Superior Court Justice E. Allen Hunter ordered that Nicholas J. Sexton, 31, of Warwick, R.I., be held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail until a bail hearing can be scheduled.

Sexton appeared in a second-floor courtroom dressed in a red jail-issued jumpsuit. His feet were shackled. Sexton’s wrists were handcuffed and secured to a chain around his waist.

The red outfit indicated he is being held in the maximum security section of the jail.
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The judge asked Sexton how he pleaded to all charges.

“Not guilty,” said the defendant, flanked by his court-appointed attorneys, Jeffrey Toothaker of Ellsworth and David Bate of Bangor.

Hunter said he would leave it up to Anderson to schedule a bail hearing. Toothaker did not object to continuing the hearing, but said that Sexton most likely would be unable to make the high bail typically set in murder cases.
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A trial date has not been set. The Maine attorney general’s office, which is prosecuting the cases, has asked that the two men be tried together. The judge has not issued his decision on that motion.

Sexton’s attorneys and Jeffrey Silverstein, who represents Daluz, have said they would oppose a motion for a joint trial.

“We would be opposed to a dual trial,” Bate said Monday at an impromptu press conference outside the courthouse. “We are in the very early stages of this case. We have not received one single police report.”

Bate declined to discuss Sexton’s state of mind.
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Pair accused of murder in Bangor triple homicide case want cellphone records to be suppressed
feb 1 2014

BANGOR, Maine — Attorneys for t wo men accused of murder in a 2012 triple homicide have asked that cellphone records obtained by police during the investigation be ruled inadmissible as evidence against the accused men.

Nicholas J. Sexton, 32, of Warwick, R.I., and Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 35, of Brockton, Mass., have pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and one count of arson in the deaths of Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon; Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington; and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford.

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Sexton and Daluz sat Friday at separate defense tables at the Penobscot Judicial Center facing Superior Court Justice William Anderson, who also is in the process of deciding whether the two will be tried together or in separate trials.

The attorneys for Sexton and Daluz are asking for the phone records to be thrown out. Bangor attorneys Hunter Tzovarras and Jeffrey Silverstein are representing Daluz and say the state should have gotten a warrant to obtain the cellphone records under the Fourth Amendment.

Defense attorney Jeffrey Toothaker of Ellsworth and Bangor attorney David Bate, who are representing Sexton, say the cellphone records are inadmissible because the request to obtain them was not done in a timely fashion under the law.
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Bangor triple slaying suspects seek separate trials

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2014/03/13/bnagor-triple-slaying-suspects-seek-separate-trials/1504371

Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 6:51 am

BANGOR — The two men accused of killing three Penobscot County residents in 2012 then setting the car in which they were shot on fire most likely will be tried together in front of one jury in late April.

Although Superior Court Justice William Anderson has not yet ruled on a defense motion to try Nicholas Sexton, 33, of Warwick, R.I., and Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 36, of Brockton, Mass., separately, the prosecution appeared Wednesday to have taken away the defense’s best argument by agreeing not to introduce statements Daluz and others made implicating Sexton as the shooter.

Sexton and Daluz have pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in connection with the deaths of Nicolle A. Lugdon, 24, of Eddington, Daniel T. Borders, 26, of Hermon and Lucas A. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford on Aug. 12 or 13, 2012. Investigators have described the slayings as a drug deal gone bad.
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At a hearing Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center, Anderson set jury selection for Monday, April 28, with the trial to begin as soon as the jurors are seated. The judge also set deadlines for pre-trial motions and for attorneys to suggest questions they wanted put to potential jurors.

Although Anderson gave lead defense attorneys until Wednesday to find legal precedents to support their arguments for separate trials, now that the state has said it will not use certain statements, he set one trial date, not two.
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Sister of victim in Bangor triple homicide arrested for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors
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http://bangordailynews.com/2014/04/30/news/bangor/sister-of-victim-in-bangor-triple-homicide-arrested-for-refusing-to-cooperate-with-prosecutors/

BANGOR, Maine — While a jury was being selected in a triple murder trial in a second-floor courtroom of the Penobscot Judicial Center on Wednesday, a key witness appeared before a judge on the first floor accused of refusing to cooperate with prosecutors.

Katelyn Lugdon, 19, formerly of Bangor, was arrested earlier this week in Saugus, Massachusetts, on a charge of failure to appear as a state’s witness. A warrant was issued for her arrest after she failed to show up for pretrial interviews with prosecutors. She was taken to Bangor on Tuesday.
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Nicholas Sexton, 33, of Warwick, R.I., and Randall “Ricky” Daluz, 36, of Brockton, Mass., have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and arson. Opening statements will be presented Thursday morning after 12 jurors and four alternates are selected from the jury pool of 49. Jury selection began Monday.

While jury selection was taking place Wednesday afternoon, District Court Judge Gregory Campbell set bail for Katelyn Lugdon at $25,000, but urged Assistant Attorney General Deb Cashman to call her to testify as early as possible. Cashman said Lugdon was scheduled to testify May 7 but could be called earlier next week.

Lugdon is being held at the Penobscot County Jail. She is not expected to post bail.

Cashman told Campbell that Lugdon was a key witness in the case because of her relationship with two of the three victims. She also was one of the last people to see the trio alive on the night of Aug. 12, 2012.
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The trial is scheduled to last at least two weeks and could last up to four weeks, Superior Court Justice William Anderson told potential jurors Monday.

After opening statements Thursday, jurors will visit several locations in Bangor, including the parking lot off outer Hammond Street, where the report of a car fire led Bangor police to begin a triple homicide investigation. The jury also will drive by the Ramada Inn on Odlin Road, Carolina’s Bar & Grill under the Joshua Chamberlain bridge and a spot on the Penobscot River Bank at Boyd and Hancock streets, where guns and ammunition believed to be used in the crimes were found in March 2013.
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http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/13/news/bangor/ex-girlfriends-of-men-charged-in-bangor-triple-murder-reluctantly-take-the-stand/
Posted May 13, 2014, at 6:39 p.m.

Ex-girlfriends of men charged in Bangor triple murder reluctantly take the stand

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Chantee Andrews, 33, of Cranston, Rhode Island, who has two children with Sexton, and Patti Pond, 31, of Fall River, Massachusetts, both wept as they answered questions about their relationships with the men. Andrews said she was jealous of the time Sexton spent with Daluz. She told jurors she later learned Sexton sometimes was with other girlfriends when he said he was with Daluz.

Andrews said that she drove to Bangor on Aug. 13, 2012, to pick Sexton up and drive him back to Massachusetts. She said that he seemed upset about something but did not tell her what.

Pond said that she knew nothing about Daluz’s drug deals. She told jurors that he worked as a landscaper and did painting and other odd jobs with Sexton.

With the jury out of the courtroom, Pond said that Daluz told her to be on the lookout for “Nick or one of his people” around their home in Taunton, Massachusetts.
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The trial, which began May 1 after 3½ days for jury selection, could last another 2½ to three weeks.

If convicted, Sexton and Daluz face between 25 years and life in prison on each murder charge.

note...no DP in Maine, but 25 years or 'Life' means just that, as there is no Parole in Maine. ::jeep3::

Quote from: Nut44x4 on May 14, 2014, 04:04:37 AM

Thank you for the updates on this horrific crime, Nut. I hope both Sexton and Daluz will be sentenced to "Life", meaning they will spend every day and every night behind bars until they death. I don't believe two people responsible for a triple homicide and arson (setting fire to the car with bodies in it) are rehabilitation material. I know I wouldn't want them walking around free even after 25 years. ::MonkeyNoNo::

It sure is Muffy...

Bangor police on the lookout for Katelyn Lugdon, key witness in triple murder trial
5.20.14

BANGOR, Maine — Bangor police were on the lookout Tuesday night for Katelyn Lugdon, a key witness in the triple murder trial of Nicholas Sexton and Randall Daluz.

Lugdon, 19, formerly of Bangor, is the sister of one of the victims and the girlfriend of another. She testified more than two weeks ago after being arrested in Massachusetts on April 29 after she did not appear in Bangor for an interview with prosecutors when subpoenaed.

As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, Lugdon had not been charged with a crime and a warrant had not been issued for her arrest, according to Bangor police.

She was held at the Penobscot County Jail unable to make $25,000 cash bail until after she testified. After taking the stand May 6 in the trial of Sexton and Daluz, Lugdon was release on personal recognizance bail from the Penobscot County Jail under the supervision of Volunteers of America.

Conditions included that she not use drugs and be tested for their use; that she reside at the Shaw House, a homeless shelter for teens in Bangor; that she abide by a curfew and check with her VOA case manager each evening.

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Closing arguments and jury instructions were completed Tuesday afternoon. Jurors decided to go home about 5 p.m. and resume deliberations Wednesday morning. Lugdon was not in the courtroom with other relatives of the victims.

Lugdon, 19, was re-arrested the morning of May 9 when she failed a drug test. She was charged with violation of condition of release but released that same afternoon on the same conditions.

Superior Court Justice William Anderson, who is presiding over the trial, threatened to hold Lugdon without bail if she violated her bail conditions again.
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/20/news/bangor/bangor-police-on-the-lookout-for-katelyn-lugdon-key-witness-in-triple-murder-trial/

Prosecution, defense attorneys deliver closing arguments in Bangor triple murder trial
5.20.14

BANGOR, Maine — Whether the drug dealer from Rhode Island, the one from Massachusetts or both men are responsible for the deaths of three people in August 2012 is in the hands of the jury.

The six men and six women who have heard nearly three weeks of testimony in the triple murder trial at the Penobscot Judicial Center deliberated for about 20 minutes late Tuesday afternoon before deciding to go home for the night and resume work Wednesday.

Jurors heard testimony from a couple of defense witnesses before spending most of Tuesday listening to closing arguments and instructions.

Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese told jurors they did not need to know exactly when or how the victims died the night of Aug. 12, 2012, to find Nicholas Sexton and Randall Daluz guilty of murder and arson.

Attorneys for both defendants said there is enough reasonable doubt in the evidence presented by the state to find Sexton and Daluz not guilty.

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“You don’t have to be unanimous in your theories [of how the crime was committed],” Marchese said in her closing argument. “You must be unanimous in your verdict.”

Marchese said Borders and Lugdon were killed for being disloyal to Sexton and buying drugs from other suppliers. Tuscano tragically went along for a ride at the urging of Lugdon, she said.

Sexton’s attorney, Jeffrey Toothaker of Ellsworth, told jurors in his closing arguments that the state was using “poetic license” rather than facts to convict his client. He also said that Sexton told the truth when he took the stand Monday.

Toothaker said the state had presented no proof of a rift between Borders and Sexton or Lugdon and Sexton.

“Poetic license versus actual fact,” Toothaker said. “Ask yourself if it is a fact or the state’s poetic license.”

He also urged jurors to view the circumstances of what happened the night of Aug. 12, 2012, from Sexton’s perspective and ask themselves what they would have done differently.

Daluz’s attorney, Jeffrey Silverstein of Bangor, told jurors that Sexton took the stand because “he saw his ship sinking and decided to take Daluz down with him.”

He also said that the prosecution was trying to convict his client using guilt by association.

“If he was involved, someone would have seen him [with the victims],” he told jurors. “It’s awfully convenient for the prosecution to just use the word ‘they.’”

Silverstein said that the state had to prove that “Daluz did X, and if they can’t do that, then, you’re just not there. That’s reasonable doubt.”

He said no one could place Daluz with the victims.

“There are no eyewitnesses here because they were murdered,” Marchese said in a rebuttal statement to the jury. “For Mr. Silverstein to say that these guys are not guilty because there are no eyewitnesses is just ridiculous.”

Marchese began her closing about 11 a.m., after Daluz said that he would not testify. Sexton took the stand Monday and said Daluz pulled the trigger to shoot the three victims and forced him to torch the car.

Daluz took the opportunity to address the court for the first time during the trial when the judge told him he was not obligated the take the stand. The defendant criticized the judge’s decision to try him and Sexton together instead of separately.

The jury was not in the courtroom during the short conversation.

Daluz called Sexton’s decision to testify “an act of desperation.”

“If I testify, it will look like an act of desperation,” Daluz said.

Marchese said that phone records proved the defendants and the victims were together after 11 p.m. Aug. 12, 2012. The prosecutor told the jury that Sexton and Daluz had been seen with the guns linked to the bullets taken from the bodies of two victims. Marchese also said there had been testimony that Sexton was unhappy that Borders and Lugdon were using a new supplier.

“The state can’t prove who shot who when,” she said. “That’s because the fire worked. It destroyed clues that would have answered those questions.”
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Jurors must consider the charges against each defendant separately. Under Maine’s accomplice liability law, both defendants may be found guilty of murder and arson — no matter who pulled the trigger or lit the fire — if one was aware of the other’s intent, the judge said.
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http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/20/news/bangor/prosecutor-to-jury-you-dont-have-to-know-exactly-how-when-triple-murder-victims-died-to-find-defendants-guilty/

Still no verdict: Jury in triple murder trial to resume deliberations Tuesday

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/23/news/bangor/triple-murder-trial-jury-deliberations-continue-friday-afternoon-after-more-than-26-hours/

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BANGOR, Maine — Jurors deliberating the fate of two out-of-state men charged in the deaths of three people in August 2012 worked well into Friday night but were unable to come to a decision by the judge’s 10 p.m. deadline, so he ordered them to return to the Penobscot Judicial Center on Tuesday to continue their deliberations.

Superior Court Justice William Anderson said he would have preferred to continue deliberations Saturday, but he decided on Tuesday since two jurors had previous plans for the holiday weekend.

“Be safe and be healthy over the next three days, because we can’t lose any of you,” the judge said. “We can’t proceed with 11 jurors. This is quite unprecedented, really, the combination of a three-day weekend and having jurors deliberate for essentially three days.

“Don’t make up your mind on anything until the deliberations are over,” Anderson said.
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http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/28/news/bangor/jury-finds-daluz-guilty-on-all-counts-sexton-on-2-counts-in-bangor-triple-murder/

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Posted May 28, 2014, at 1:37 p.m.
Last modified May 28, 2014, at 8:34 p.m.

BANGOR, Maine — The month-long trial of two men charged with killing three people and then torching a car containing their bodies came to an end Wednesday when jurors found one of the defendants guilty on all counts of murder and arson and the other guilty on some counts at the Penobscot Judicial Center.

Nicholas Sexton, 33, of Warwick, Rhode Island, was found guilty of the murder of Nicolle Lugdon and of arson, but the jury, after deliberating for nearly 45 hours over five days, could not reach a verdict on the murder counts in connection with the deaths of Daniel Borders and Lucas Tuscano.

The jury found Randall Daluz, 36, of Brockton, Massachusetts, guilty on three counts of murder and one count of arson amid what authorities described as a drug deal gone bad.

The verdict angered Daluz, who spoke to Sexton, seated behind him in court, for the first time during the trial.

“It’s all about yourself,” Daluz said. “It’s all about yourself, bro.”

Sexton showed no emotion as the verdict was read. He did not react to his co-defendant’s outburst.
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A sentencing date has not been set. Marchese predicted it would be scheduled for late summer or early fall.

Sexton and Daluz face between 25 years and life in prison for each murder count and up to 30 years in prison on the arson charge.
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much more!!!

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/28/news/bangor/jury-member-in-triple-murder-trial-says-she-and-others-on-panel-are-concerned-for-personal-safety/?ref=polbeat

Thursday, May 29, 2014 Last update: 10:59 p.m.

BANGOR, Maine — Some jurors who convicted two men for murder and arson in the violent deaths of three people in August 2012 feel concerned for their safety, according to three who spoke with the Bangor Daily News.
During the third day of jury deliberations, Jeffrey Toothaker, Sexton’s defense attorney, said the process was lengthy because one juror disagreed with the rest of the panel.

One juror confirmed Toothaker’s account but offered few details about the deliberations and the nature of the disagreement.

“We talked for days about the same thing with the same people,” she said. “Everybody has the right to make their own decision. Every individual juror’s vote had the same weight.”

Another juror, a man, told the Bangor Daily News: “You can’t always get 12 people to agree.”

All three jurors said the complexity of the case — with two defendants facing a total of eight different criminal charges — also added to the length of deliberations.

“If you look at the charges … you can probably figure out what took so long,” the male juror said.

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One of the three jurors said she voted to convict both men on all four charges against them.

She added, “I hope they never get out of prison — ever.”
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Arrest warrant issued for murder trial witness after she failed to appear in Bangor court for bail violation
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/06/10/news/bangor/arrest-warrant-issued-for-murder-trial-witness-after-she-failed-to-appear-in-bangor-court-for-bail-violation/?ref=polbeat

6.10.14

BANGOR, Maine — A superior court justice Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of a key witness in a recently completed triple murder trial after she did not show up for arraignment on a bail violation charge at the Penobscot Judicial Center.

Katelyn Lugdon, 19, formerly of Bangor, was charged with failure to appear. Superior Court Justice Robert Murray ordered a warrant be issued for her arrest.

Lugdon is believed to have left the state in mid-May. She was last seen in court May 12.

Bangor police said May 29 that they were not searching actively for Lugdon because no warrant had been issued at the time.

Her court-appointed attorney, Peter Bos of Bangor, told Murray he had not heard from his client in almost a month. Murray set bail at $1,000 cash when and if Lugdon is arrested.

Bangor police don’t plan to actively search for Lugdon, Sgt. Tim Cotton, spokesman for the department, said Tuesday after the judge issued his order. If she were to interact with police in Maine or another state, she would be arrested on the outstanding warrant and most likely returned to Bangor, he said.

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One of 2 defendants convicted in Bangor triple murder seeks new trial

Posted June 18, 2014, at 3:09 p.m.
Last modified June 18, 2014, at 9:33 p.m.

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Randall Daluz, 36, of Brockton, Mass., is seeking a new trial. His co-defendant, Nicholas Sexton, 33, of Warwick, R.I., is not.

Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese, who prosecuted the case with Assistant Attorney General Deb Cashman, has not yet replied to the motion. She said Wednesday in an email that prosecutors would oppose it.

Motions for new trials often are filed in murder trials prior to defendants being sentenced. They are almost always denied but often are the basis for appeals to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
A date for a hearing on the motion before Superior Court Justice William Anderson has not been set. In previous cases, Anderson has held hearings on motions for new trials just prior to sentencings. Sentencing dates have not been set. snip snip
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/06/18/news/bangor/one-of-2-defendants-convicted-in-bangor-triple-murder-seeks-new-trial/

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