Old Town postal employee injured when wind breaks window

Heavy wind blew in a window at the U.S. Post Office in Old Town Tuesday, sending one postal employee to the hospital.

Daniel King, 51, of Old Town was injured when he was struck by the glass and knocked unconscious. King was conscious, however, when police arrived. Officer Wilfred King was called to the Center Street post office about 2:35 p.m. and reported that Daniel King had been hit on the head and had also suffered a cut on the leg.

He was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and released later Tuesday.

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Old Town police arrested Kenneth G. Wood, 32, of Old Town Monday afternoon after he allegedly assaulted his live-in girlfriend and heavily damaged their North Main Street residence.

The woman told police Tuesday that the night before Wood had become violent, smashing the telephone, breaking a table and damaging a children’s high chair and at one point had thrown her to the floor. She wasn’t injured, she told Officer Wilfred King, although she reported she was afraid and had left the home with their three young children.

Wood wasn’t immediately located, but the extensive damage was apparently easy to find. Officer Thomas Adams reported that a broken dining table was on the porch, the front door knob was broken and the door cracked. Holes had been punched in the walls and a plastic cat dish was damaged, in addition to the damage Wood’s girlfriend had already reported.

Tipped off that Wood had returned to the apartment, King returned to North Main Street about 5 p.m. and found Wood was working on the front door, according to the police report. Wood then went inside to make repairs on the wall when King arrested him.

According to King’s report, Wood denied being physical with his girlfriend but admitted that the night before he had been drunk and out of control.

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A man and a woman from Carmel were arrested in Bangor Monday on separate charges after a shoplifting spree was foiled.

A security official at Wal-Mart told Officer Kevin MacLaren that he had seen Terence Hyson, 36, conceal a carton of cigarettes and walk out of the store only to return and do the same thing. He was accosted after the second attempt, and police were told that a woman with him had been handing him the items he had concealed.

Hyson was charged with theft.

Officer Butch Moor was called in to assist apparently after Hyson threatened to do bodily harm to the store official if he detained him. While at Wal-Mart, Moor learned that Hyson’s alleged accomplice was out in the parking lot.

He approached the car which was backing out at the time, but pulled back into the parking spot as Moor drew closer. The woman in the driver’s seat, Lynn H. Cook, 34, started to get out of the car when Moor asked for her license. Cook told Moor that she didn’t have one and that she wasn’t driving, according to Moor’s police report.

Moor checked on Cook and learned her license had been suspended and that she was on habitual offender status for repeat violations. She was arrested for being an habitual offender and at the Penobscot County Jail, Moor reported that he found two small bags of marijuana and a marijuana pipe on her. Cook was also charged with possession of marijuana.

— Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli