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Maine GOP Lawmaker Threatens To Shoot Photographer In Dunkin Donuts Parking Lot

May 21st, 2011 at 7:31 PM by Marie Diamond





Republican state representative Frederick Ladd Wintle is in custody today

after threatening to shoot a photographer with the Maine Morning Sentinel in the

parking lot of a Dunkin Donuts in Waterville. The representative from Garland,

Maine, approached the photographer, Seamans, in a deranged manner and

then pointed a gun at him at point-blank range, according to the Portland Press

Herald:

In what police termed a “bizarre†series of events, Wintle allegedly started

talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless

Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug

dealer.

News reports made no mention of drugs involved in the infant’s death and did

not reveal the family.

He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants’ waistband and pointed

it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial

Drive.

Police confirmed that Seamans was “an innocent bystander†who did nothing to

provoke Wintle. The two men reportedly had never met before. Wintle seems to be

something of an amateur historian, and has “penned a series of stories about

his miss-spent youth and family, faith, and heritage.â€Â In what appears to be

Wintle’s website promoting his writing, his biography suggests an interest in

hunting, saying he “was born on opening day of deer hunting season October 21,

1952.â€

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Maine GOP Lawmaker Threatens To Shoot Photographer In Dunkin Donuts Parking Lot

May 21st, 2011 at 7:31 PM by Marie Diamond





Republican state representative Frederick Ladd Wintle is in custody today

after threatening to shoot a photographer with the Maine Morning Sentinel in the

parking lot of a Dunkin Donuts in Waterville. The representative from Garland,

Maine, approached the photographer, Seamans, in a deranged manner and

then pointed a gun at him at point-blank range, according to the Portland Press

Herald:

In what police termed a “bizarre†series of events, Wintle allegedly started

talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless

Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug

dealer.

News reports made no mention of drugs involved in the infant’s death and did

not reveal the family.

He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants’ waistband and pointed

it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial

Drive.

Police confirmed that Seamans was “an innocent bystander†who did nothing to

provoke Wintle. The two men reportedly had never met before. Wintle seems to be

something of an amateur historian, and has “penned a series of stories about

his miss-spent youth and family, faith, and heritage.â€Â In what appears to be

Wintle’s website promoting his writing, his biography suggests an interest in

hunting, saying he “was born on opening day of deer hunting season October 21,

1952.â€

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No mention of meds...yet.

Terry

Maine GOP Lawmaker Threatens To Shoot Photographer In Dunkin Donuts Parking Lot

May 21st, 2011 at 7:31 PM by Marie Diamond





Republican state representative Frederick Ladd Wintle is in custody today

after threatening to shoot a photographer with the Maine Morning Sentinel in the

parking lot of a Dunkin Donuts in Waterville. The representative from Garland,

Maine, approached the photographer, Seamans, in a deranged manner and

then pointed a gun at him at point-blank range, according to the Portland Press

Herald:

In what police termed a “bizarre†series of events, Wintle allegedly started

talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless

Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug

dealer.

News reports made no mention of drugs involved in the infant’s death and did

not reveal the family.

He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants’ waistband and pointed

it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial

Drive.

Police confirmed that Seamans was “an innocent bystander†who did nothing to

provoke Wintle. The two men reportedly had never met before. Wintle seems to be

something of an amateur historian, and has “penned a series of stories about

his miss-spent youth and family, faith, and heritage.â€Â In what appears to be

Wintle’s website promoting his writing, his biography suggests an interest in

hunting, saying he “was born on opening day of deer hunting season October 21,

1952.â€

Sent via BlackBerry by AT & T

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/21/maine-gop-lawmaker-threatens-to-shoot-photog\

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No mention of meds...yet.

Terry

Maine GOP Lawmaker Threatens To Shoot Photographer In Dunkin Donuts Parking Lot

May 21st, 2011 at 7:31 PM by Marie Diamond





Republican state representative Frederick Ladd Wintle is in custody today

after threatening to shoot a photographer with the Maine Morning Sentinel in the

parking lot of a Dunkin Donuts in Waterville. The representative from Garland,

Maine, approached the photographer, Seamans, in a deranged manner and

then pointed a gun at him at point-blank range, according to the Portland Press

Herald:

In what police termed a “bizarre†series of events, Wintle allegedly started

talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless

Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug

dealer.

News reports made no mention of drugs involved in the infant’s death and did

not reveal the family.

He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants’ waistband and pointed

it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial

Drive.

Police confirmed that Seamans was “an innocent bystander†who did nothing to

provoke Wintle. The two men reportedly had never met before. Wintle seems to be

something of an amateur historian, and has “penned a series of stories about

his miss-spent youth and family, faith, and heritage.â€Â In what appears to be

Wintle’s website promoting his writing, his biography suggests an interest in

hunting, saying he “was born on opening day of deer hunting season October 21,

1952.â€

Sent via BlackBerry by AT & T