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| State prison hostage details aired |
| By Bangor Daily News |
| Published: 07/02/2008 |
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MAINE - Monday evening’s tense hostage situation inside the Maine State Prison nearly came to a violent end, the state’s corrections commissioner said Tuesday. "We had a tactical team in the facility, and we were fully prepared to take him out," Corrections Commissioner Martin Magnusson said of hostage-taker Michael Chasse in a press briefing Tuesday at the Wellness Center conference room on the east campus of the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital. A state police tactical squad smashed through a plate-glass window with guns ready to fire to bring an end to the tense standoff with Chasse, who was holding two hostages for seven hours, officials said Tuesday. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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