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Police make one arrest while searching for missing Waterville woman

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WATERVILLE, Maine (WGAN) Police have taken one person into custody as they look for a missing Waterville woman.

Maine State Police say 29-year-old Melissa Sousa was last seen Tuesday morning around 8:30 bringing her 2 children to the school bus near her home on Gold Street.

Melissa is described as being 5 feet tall, weighing 125 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. She lives at a duplex home with 28-year-old Nicholas Lovejoy with their twin 8-year-old girls.

Lovejoy was arrested around midnight and charged with having a loaded rifle in his vehicle and endangering the welfare of a child. Police say he had left the children at the home. He was interviewed and is cooperating with the investigation, according to police. He was brought to Kennebec County Jail, where he’s being held in lieu of $2,000 cash bail.

Anyone who has seen Sousa or has information on her whereabouts is being asked to call Waterville Police at 680-4700 extension 4513.

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