The man who was arrested last week in connection to a late November murder in Portland has a lengthy criminal history in multiple states going back several decades, including an assault with a sword, domestic violence convictions and the illegal possession of a firearm.
Domingus Nobrega, 48, was arrested by Portland Police on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at the Scarborough Walmart.
Nobrega was charged with murder for the death of 43-year-old Matthew Merrick, who was found dead inside of his apartment on Marshall Street on Saturday, Nov. 30.
Nobrega was taken to the Cumberland County Jail, where he is being held without bail.
At his first court appearance last week, Nobrega reportedly told the judge that he was “not a citizen of this country,” per WMTW.
In 2012, the Bangor Daily News reported that a federal jury in May 2011 found Nobrega guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Nobrega then reportedly petitioned the court in order to request public flogging as an alternative punishment to his prison sentence, “asking for 2 lashes for every year given to him as sentence to be imposed upon him.”
At the time of his conviction for the illegal possession of a firearm in 2011, Nobrega had prior convictions of assault with a deadly weapon, a sword, in 2001 in North Carolina; two domestic violence assaults in 1997 and 2001 in North Carolina and Florida; and assault and battery of a police officer in 2004 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Nobrega also appears to have been the plaintiff in at least two lawsuits against York County Jail and the York County Sheriff’s Department.
One complaint, filed in 2020, was a collective action brought against York County by Nobrega and several of his fellow inmates at York County Jail, in which it was alleged that officials failed to enforce safe COVID-19 protocols during an outbreak at the jail.
In another complaint against the York County Sheriff’s Office filed by Nobrega in November 2020, he alleges that the Sheriff, jail administrators and chaplain violated his 1st Amendment right to “Practice his Jewish Religion.”
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