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A Bangor man wanted in connection with an assault on his live-in girlfriend Sunday night was located after police traced a phone call he made to his home from a Holden gas station.
Brewer police arrested Bruce E. Bennett, 19, on behalf of Bangor authorities after finding him walking along Route 1A near the Holden-Brewer line.
Earlier, Bennett had grabbed his 18-year-old girlfriend by the throat and choked her before pushing her to the floor where he kneeled on her chest, she told police. He then left their Curve Street residence, later calling her from the Irving Mainway store in Holden to let her know he was heading back and that he would call her again when he reached the 7-Eleven on State Street in Bangor.
He had made this telephone call collect while Bangor police Officer Mike Kenny was at their apartment investigating the assault. Kenny had the call traced to the Irving store and a Brewer police officer intercepted Bennett before he had gone far.
Bennett’s girlfriend told Kenny that she has an 18-month-old son and because of the child she asked Bennett to turn down the television set, angering him.
Bennett allegedly threw a baby bottle and smashed a clock and telephone before heading for the door. The girlfriend then asked that he leave behind the T-shirt he was wearing, as it was hers. It was then that Bennett attacked her, according to the police report.
An Old Town woman admitted that it was jealousy that had prompted her to pull the hair of her boyfriend’s former girlfriend and to push her “lightly” Sunday afternoon.
Amy Pelletier, 48, was summoned on a charge of assault after the incident that occurred early in the afternoon at 362 South Brunswick St.
The former girlfriend told police that she kept some of her belongings there, including a dog, and that she and her former boyfriend are friends. She explained to police that she had gone to South Brunswick Street to groom the dog and ask for a chair and potting soil she had stored, but that the new girlfriend prevented her from seeing her friend.
She told Officer Seth Bear that Pelletier blocked the door leading to the cellar where her friend was. When he came upstairs, the woman said, she put her arm around him, although Pelletier said she also saw her kiss her boyfriend on the head.
That prompted Pelletier to push the other woman. The boyfriend said that the women pulled each other’s hair, although it was his former girlfriend who had pulled first.
In an effort to avoid getting his friend’s car towed, an 18-year-old driver, without a license, called another friend to come move the car from Bosworth Street in Old Town.
The problem was, as an Old Town police officer discovered, the license of the woman who came to move the car had been suspended.
Both people were summoned, Luke Shorey, 18, for operating a motor vehicle without a license and Rae-Ella Stanley, 19, with operating a motor vehicle after suspension.
Officer Bobbie Pelletier stopped the car Shorey was driving late Friday night because it had no headlights on as it headed east on Center Street. Shorey didn’t have a license and of the two passengers inside the car, only one had a license and he admitted to drinking alcohol earlier.
Rather than have the car towed, Pelletier allowed the youths to call Stanley with the idea that she would drive it to a gas station in Milford. Stanley drove up in her boss’s car, but when asked for her license told Pelletier that she wasn’t carrying it.
Dispatch reported that her license had been suspended for failure to pay a fine. Her boss was contacted and Pelletier gave him a ride to where the car was and let him leave with it. The car that Shorey was driving was towed.
– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli
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