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Accused school hostage-taker pleads not guilty
by Outspoken Today at 6:57 am
Accused school hostage-taker pleads not guilty
By Walter Griffin
Staff Writer Bangor daily News
BELFAST, Maine — The man accused of holding a Stockton Elementary School fifth-grade classroom hostage three months ago pleaded not guilty to 41 charges stemming from that incident when he appeared in Waldo County Superior Court on Wednesday.
Randall B. Hofland, 55, of Searsport was indicted on 22 counts of kidnapping, 12 counts of criminal restraint with a dangerous weapon, six counts of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and one count of burglary by the Waldo County grand jury last week. He was arraigned on those 41 charges before Justice Jeffrey Hjelm Wednesday and entered not guilty pleas on each.
Hofland was arrested at the school after the Oct. 31 armed hostage-taking. None of the students was physically injured during the incident.
Justice Hjelm continued the $1 million bail that was imposed when Hofland first was arrested and also ordered that Hofland be held in the Penobscot County Jail so that he can be closer to his attorney, Jeffrey Toothaker, of Ellsworth. Hofland was being held at the York County Jail.
Superior Court Clerk Terry Curtis said Hofland made no mention of the school incident during his appearance before Justice Hjelm but he did remark on the removal of certain items from his property in Searsport after his arrest.
Many of the goods were believed to belong to retired sea captain George Perkins, but Hofland claimed they were his. Hofland worked as a caregiver for Perkins at his Stockton Springs home during the first half of the decade.
During a phone conversation from the York County Jail last month, Hofland insisted that the items belonged to him and that the Searsport Police Department was wrong to give them to Perkins.
When Perkins returned home from the hospital in 2005 he noticed many of his personal belongings were missing and accused Hofland of taking them. The items ranged from tools, to power equipment and welding supplies. There were also two long guns, which Hofland said were given to him by his father.
“All this stuff is mine. It’s all my property,” Hofland said from jail last month. “None of those guns were stolen by me, now they’ve been stolen by George.”
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/96686.html
By Walter Griffin
Staff Writer Bangor daily News
BELFAST, Maine — The man accused of holding a Stockton Elementary School fifth-grade classroom hostage three months ago pleaded not guilty to 41 charges stemming from that incident when he appeared in Waldo County Superior Court on Wednesday.
Randall B. Hofland, 55, of Searsport was indicted on 22 counts of kidnapping, 12 counts of criminal restraint with a dangerous weapon, six counts of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and one count of burglary by the Waldo County grand jury last week. He was arraigned on those 41 charges before Justice Jeffrey Hjelm Wednesday and entered not guilty pleas on each.
Hofland was arrested at the school after the Oct. 31 armed hostage-taking. None of the students was physically injured during the incident.
Justice Hjelm continued the $1 million bail that was imposed when Hofland first was arrested and also ordered that Hofland be held in the Penobscot County Jail so that he can be closer to his attorney, Jeffrey Toothaker, of Ellsworth. Hofland was being held at the York County Jail.
Superior Court Clerk Terry Curtis said Hofland made no mention of the school incident during his appearance before Justice Hjelm but he did remark on the removal of certain items from his property in Searsport after his arrest.
Many of the goods were believed to belong to retired sea captain George Perkins, but Hofland claimed they were his. Hofland worked as a caregiver for Perkins at his Stockton Springs home during the first half of the decade.
During a phone conversation from the York County Jail last month, Hofland insisted that the items belonged to him and that the Searsport Police Department was wrong to give them to Perkins.
When Perkins returned home from the hospital in 2005 he noticed many of his personal belongings were missing and accused Hofland of taking them. The items ranged from tools, to power equipment and welding supplies. There were also two long guns, which Hofland said were given to him by his father.
“All this stuff is mine. It’s all my property,” Hofland said from jail last month. “None of those guns were stolen by me, now they’ve been stolen by George.”
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/96686.html
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