Dennis Hoey

Press Herald

Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland since 2008. Before that he worked in the Press Herald’s Brunswick Bureau where he spent several years covering news in several midcoast towns from Rockland and Wiscasset to Bath and Brunswick. He also covered Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College, and the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant during his years in Brunswick. When he’s not hunting down criminals, politicians or law enforcement officials, Dennis enjoys spending time riding his bicycle, hiking, and cross country skiing.

Latest

Published
September 19, 2018

Guatemalan man faces deportation for entering U.S. illegally

Victor Yobany Archila-Rojas, 28, who came to Maine from Canada in July, was deported in 2013.
Published
September 19, 2018

Connecticut ‘gang enforcer’ who oversaw drug trafficking in Maine gets 18 years

Luis Padilla belonged to a gang known as the Red Side Guerilla Brims – part of the Bloods street gang, according to federal prosecutors.
Published
September 19, 2018

See photos: Island estate in Casco Bay sells for $4.1 million

Buyers from Falmouth Foreside now own the Clapboard Island mansion and compound built by a real estate developer in 1898.
Published
September 6, 2018

Gubernatorial candidate Alan Caron begins statewide campaign road trip

The independent says he plans to visit every city and town in Maine before Election Day.
Published
September 6, 2018

Nearly 30,000 CMP customers lose power as intense thunderstorm brings down trees

The company was working to restore electricity to nearly 14,000 homes and businesses still without power late Thursday night in the wake of the storm that rolled through southern Maine.
Published
September 5, 2018

Trump adversary, porn star Stormy Daniels packs them in at Portland strip club

PT’s Showclub draws a crowd eager to see the adult film star, many of them men and women who say they wanted to witness history and respect her for standing up to the president.
Published
September 5, 2018

Three Florida residents sentenced for credit card fraud in Maine

They used stolen credit and debit card numbers of Maine residents to buy merchandise and gift cards in Maine stores.
Published
September 4, 2018

South Portland council opts to let voters decide on short-term rentals ordinance

City residents will vote on whether to keep a modified ordinance banning unhosted or non-owner-occupied short-term rentals or to scrap it completely.
Published
August 30, 2018

Cape Elizabeth police investigating vandalism at soccer fields

A posting on the department’s Facebook page shows tire tracks on the turf at Gull Crest Fields.
Published
August 30, 2018

Police beat suspect before he allegedly confessed to killing Cpl. Eugene Cole, lawyers say

Attorneys for John D. Williams say officers beat and pummeled him to the point of causing him to defecate himself and held ‘his head by the back of his hair like a game trophy.’

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