SKOWHEGAN,ME : Madison man indicted on manslaughter charge in fatal crash on July, Friday 28th 2017

A 24-year-old Madison man has been indicted on a manslaughter charge in connection with a fatal crash more than a year ago in which police said he was passing cars at 80 mph on a back country road in Starks.

Jonathan Cayford is charged by a Somerset County grand jury for his alleged role as the driver of a car in which another Madison man was killed and two others were injured in the crash on Anson Road in Starks on Nov. 13, 2015.

The charge is a Class A felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison if he is convicted. He is charged with being reckless or criminally negligent in causing the death of Clint J. Briggs.

Cayford was arrested at Inland Hospital in Waterville at 12:01 a.m. Friday on a warrant based on the indictment. Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said his department had information that Cayford was visiting at Inland Hospital. The Waterville Police Department found Cayford at the hospital and Deputy Sheriff Cpl. Gene Cole arrested him and took him to the Somerset County Jail in East Madison.

Lancaster said the investigation took more than a year because of the amount of evidence to sift through.




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Madison man indicted on manslaughter charge in fatal crash