SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — Two teenagers have been charged with attempted murder in connection with a drug dispute in South Portland that sent two other men to the hospital, one with a gunshot wound and one with a stab wound.
Lt. Frank Clark said Essa Sayed, of Portland, and Zachary Swain, of Cape Elizabeth, both 18, are being held on $100,000 bail each following the dispute late Wednesday night at the city’s Wainwright Sports Complex that involved what police called “a relatively small quantity of marijuana.”
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