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A Bangor electronics repair store has closed without warning while still in possession of people’s belongings, months after its owner was arrested for allegedly producing child sexual abuse matieral.
Agasha Carvalho, 45, of Milford was arrested Sept. 29, 2025, and indicted in November. He is charged with one felony count each of production of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, possession of child pornography and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion in U.S. District Court of Maine in Bangor.
Carvalho owned Maine Geeks, an electronic repair store at 849 Stillwater Ave, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in federal court. The business continued operating for months after his arrest and was accepting electronics to repair until at least mid-July.
That was weeks after a judge granted an eviction against Maine Geeks on June 29 in Bangor District Court. Maine Geeks owed more than $10,000 in rent to its landlord, according to court records.
It’s unclear who was operating the store after Carvalho’s arrest, when it closed and how many people have lost access to their electronics since. A sign posted on Maine Geeks’ door warning that customers have until Aug. 12 to retrieve their items is the only notice given of the closure.
The voicemail for Maine Geeks was full when a Bangor Daily News employee tried to call and no one responded to an email sent to the business. Maine Geeks’ website is no longer active.
Carvalho’s lawyer declined to comment.
Rena Lolar dropped her phone off July 17 at Maine Geeks for a screen repair and was told it would be done that day. She called the store and an employee then told her it would actually take a couple of days because a new screen needed to be ordered.
Lolar never heard from Maine Geeks again.
“I’ve gone there for many years and it’s usually a different nerd at the front and [Carvalho has] always kind of been around, but he has other people do his work,” Lolar said.
Lolar called Bangor Police and was told she could go to the store to retrieve her phone. Bangor Police Department spokesperson Jeremy Brock confirmed the department received one complaint about Maine Geeks.
The Office of the Maine Attorney General has received two consumer complaints about the store, one in May and one in July, spokesperson Danna Hayes said.
The landlord, B&L Properties, is letting people into the store to retrieve their electronics. A sign on the door gives people a number to call to schedule a time to get their belongings.
Lolar went into the store but her phone was gone, she said. She found her shattered screen but the rest of the phone wasn’t there. There seemed to be no inventory or organization in the store, she said.
“There were broken phones open everywhere, and pieces,” Lolar said.
Lolar filed a fraud report with her credit card company and will get her $248 back, assuming no one from Maine Geeks challenges the report, she said.
“I feel bad for those people whose stuff is there,” said Lolar, who noted there were also laptops, computers and other phones in the store.
“The management, thank goodness, is being very kind and letting people in.”