CONWAY — A budget committee member and candidate for the Conway Board of Selectmen was arrested by Conway Police on Monday.
According to criminal complaints filed recently in Conway's circuit court, John Greenleaf Whittier, 40, was charged with two charges of violation of protective order and two counts of resisting arrest.
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