Body recovered from home of missing Maine woman

WATERVILLE, Maine — State Police in Maine have discovered a body in the basement of the home of a missing woman.

On Wednesday, at around 4:00 p.m., Waterville officers and State Police troopers found a body in the basement of 32 Gold Street, the same address belonging to a 29-year-old mother who went missing the day before.

Melissa Sousa, of 32 Gold Street, was last seen at around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday after dropping off her children at a bus stop near her house. Friends reported Sousa as a missing person that same night.

Sousa is described as being five feet tall, weighing around 125 lbs with brown hair and hazel eyes.

According to police, Sousa lives at the duplex home with her 28-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Lovejoy and their eight-year-old twin girls.

Lovejoy was arrested by Waterville Police at around midnight on Wednesday and charged with having a loaded rifle in the car and endangering the welfare of a child. Police said he had left his children home alone.

Lovejoy was interrogated by police on Wednesday morning and then booking into Kennebec County Jail, where he is being held on $2,000 bail.

Anyone with information on Sousa's whereabouts is asked to call Waterville Police at 680-4700 extension 4513.

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