KENNEBEC JOURNAL • March 5, 2021
Police arrested the owner of a front-end loader suspected of driving into and smashing up a Whitefield farmstand last week, charging Wayne Mullens, 47, with a felony count of aggravated criminal mischief. Mullens was arrested Thursday night in Gardiner on a warrant for his arrest issued by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, which investigated the farmstand’s destruction. Just after midnight Feb. 25 Lauren and Sean Pignatello, owners of the farmstand and creamery, reported to police they were woken by smashing sounds and looked outside their house to see a yellow tractor-like vehicle with a bucket on it driving away down Main Street in the Coopers Mills area of Whitefield. The investigation led police to accuse Mullens, who lives about a half-mile away from the stand and who owns the front-end loader.