WATERVILLE, Maine — A key witness in the trial of a man convicted of burning down a Vassalboro coffee shop that employed topless servers is now facing his own legal troubles.
Police say Thomas Mulkern, 26, of Gardiner was arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing money from a home and fleeing from police. He was arrested wearing hospital scrubs because he had been admitted to a hospital the previous night on suspicion of being under the influence of the drug known as bath salts.
Police told the Morning Sentinel that officers needed to use a stun gun to subdue Mulkern, who was combative during his arrest.
Mulkern was a key prosecution witness during the two week trial of Raymond Bellavance Jr., convicted last week of arson in the June 2009 coffee shop fire.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better/worse. No surprises I suppose.
I’ll say it again…..What a bunch of boobs.
Such a quality crew…Everyone involved in this whole operation was a scumbag.
There’s a juicy book contract lurking somewhere in the bushes if one of this loony crew has the wit to hunt it down. The lowdown on backwoods pastry and T & A. A reality snipe hunt.
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!
Not a bright lad. He sang like a canary to not be implicated in the arson. If he keeps his “law abiding” ways up he’ll end up in prison with the guy he ratted out. Not real bright I tell ya.
botta bing botta boom
My first laugh of the day. Thanks
Sally, I’m not being critical, just clarifying for future reference; it’s ‘bada bing’, not ‘botta’. Just trying to be helpful.
a great witness a bath salt user Congrats!!
Do enough monkey dust and apparently you start to resemble one..
Makes me you wonder if he lied in court to convict the other man. Like I said before I think the mad who was convicted probably did it Just not enough evidence for me too convict him. the trick prosecuters will use.
Bath Salts, Arson, and Strippers, oh my
What’s up with the one liners? Can anyone say anything cognizant?
How about this: He is a “key” witness, but yet the jury didn’t question his credibility? Now, that’s a defense’s problem. I’m sure that they got the right guy, but the defense has to put up at least, the very least…..a defense.
lt isn’t so funny when what happens is out of your control. Let’s try, for example, land use. You are obligated by law to let someone, you may or may not know, cross your land.
My point is this: the state will spend a couple of thousand dollars, prosecuting this person. But yet, the Attorney General is looking into whether or not a person wrote something on the net?
District Attorneys are what they are: they either want to go somewhere politically, … or they want to stay there permanently……..
I didn’t know curious George was in jail.