ROCKLAND, Maine — A 28-year-old Rockland man sentenced last year to four years in jail for dealing in drugs remains at large after failing to report to jail.
Michael Rainville was convicted in August of two counts of trafficking in oxycodone. He pleaded guilty to selling the drugs in Rockport in December 2010 and January 2011.
He was sentenced to four years in prison, but he was allowed to report to jail on Sept. 12. He failed to report and on Nov. 15 a warrant was issued for his arrest for failure to appear.
Rainville is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 210 pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair.
Knox County Sheriff Donna Dennison said there are a number of warrants active for people for failure to appear, failure to pay fines or bail violations.
Last week, a warrant was issued for the arrest of 57-year-old Camden businessman Edward Tosswill when he failed to report June 1 to jail after being convicted in March of trafficking in cocaine.
Tosswill was arrested in Augusta on Friday and was at the Kennebec County Jail in Augusta on Friday evening, the jail reported.
The sheriff said she plans to begin issuing regular reports soon on some of the most wanted people who are being sought by police.
Soo someone help me here if I am reading this wrong. But according to the article this dude was suppose to report to jail on Sept. 12, 2011. and he didn’t so an arrest warrent was issued on Nov. 15th, 2011. And it is now June 15th, 2012 (which is 7 months later mind you), and they decided now is a good time to put his picture out there for people to see? Geez I’d say you guys should of put his picture out there about 6 months and 29 days ago. Apparently they’re really on top of the ball in Knox County
Just tells you the people running “the System”…are sleeping. Can the they explain why it took so long to issue a warrant?
The reason it took so long Maine04401 is the cops were to busy going after the very dangerous inspection sticker violations or the even more dangerous seatbelt violators..Or perhaps the very , very dangerous 40 in a 35 MPH folks on their way to WORK…You know , easy money crime…
I agree with you about it taking so long but unfortunately they could have an entire newspaper devoted to bail/jail skippers…
does anyone eles see a common teme in this towns court house?to many state of exacutions!!!would you stick around to do 4 years?why didn’t they put out the warrant in the same time he didn’t report?He had enough time to run!!duh
Use the King’s English, please.
His original sentence was four years with all but 2 years suspended. I hope that sentence is pushed back so he has to do all four years plus a few for not reporting when he was suppose to.
And sadly Patty Giles will serve even less time for the hit and run death of Joshua Constantine.
“Businessman”. Is that what we’re calling them now? How about “controlled substance distribution professional”?
It’s like they’re posing for a yearbook picture or something. Whats with the happy face, is he glad he got a felony charge? He’s holding that sign like its an award (smh)
Goodbye tax dollars. We sure waste a lot of valuable resources on these petty victimless crimes.
Dope is far from a victimless crime. There are thousands and thousands of children left parentless from dope, marriages decimated by dope, countless automobile accidents from dope … far, far, far from victimless. Taxpayer dollars well spent.
If it wasn’t dope it would be wine. Some people will use whatever they can get their hands on easiest. Alcohol is regulated and hard to get; drugs are not.
Ohhhhh, come on … go smoke another one! Cause, yeah your right, Amsterdam is such a success. And what are you talking about alcohol is hard to get????? Are you kidding me???? You can get alcohol at all four corners of a city block!! Geez, you can even walk out of Walmart with a bottle of wine for $1.50. Phueelzzee.
Yes, technically drug dealers are businessmen. They sometimes in this paper are also referred to as firefighters from Florida.
what are they thinking?…..duh gee george