Officer finds Bangor man wanted in assault hiding in closet

A 40-year-old mother of two on Wednesday morning called the Bangor Police Department to ask that her allegedly drunken ex-boyfriend be removed from her Essex Street residence.

Officer Larry Morrill responded to the call and heard the woman’s complaint about how her ex-boyfriend had earlier pushed her around and made a choking motion and came after her. She said at that point that she ran out of the house to call the police. She also said that the man, Peter Fuller, who lives at 166 York St., was in her bedroom.

Morrill searched the residence but could not find the man in the bedroom. Then he smelled a strong odor of liquor coming from the closet that turned out to have a small door in the back. He opened the door and found Fuller curled up inside. Asked why he was in the closet, Fuller told the officer that he knew the police were coming and that he didn’t like the police.

Morrill returned to speak with the woman, who told him Fuller was on probation for assaulting her. He had pushed her around the night before, she said, and again in the morning. The woman wasn’t able to call police the previous night, she said, because Fuller removed the telephone cord.

Morrill placed Fuller under arrest, charging him with domestic assault and also with violating probation.

Two people, one of them with at least five aliases, have been charged in connection with the Nov. 17 theft of an estimated $50,000 in coins and jewelry from an Old Town residence.

Jamie Ness, 20, of Bangor and Ronald Albee, 22, of Glenburn were both charged with felony theft and are scheduled to appear in Bangor District Court on Dec. 18.

Most of what was stolen has been recovered, reported Old Town police Detective Joel Phelps, although a Rolex watch and some Krugerrands, gold coins, from the North Main Street home are still missing. A semiautomatic pistol also taken was found outside the home, Phelps said.

Ness knew the resident and went with Albee to his home ostensibly to pick up something she owned. It was later, after they had left, that the resident noticed that a briefcase containing the valuables was missing.

Phelps said friends of the resident managed to track the two down in Bangor and notified police last week of their whereabouts. Authorities interviewed them and Phelps reported each claims the other was responsible for the theft, although Phelps said that Old Town police officials are “convinced through the investigation that they’re both equally guilty.”

A framed picture of Elvis was reported stolen from a Brewer residence. The picture, showing The King dressed in a blue suit, was on the man’s bedroom wall, but last Friday he noticed it missing. He reported it stolen earlier this week, telling Sgt. Dave Clewley it had been sometime since he remembered looking at the picture and it may have been missing for as long as a couple of weeks.

– Compiled by Alixandra Williams and Doug Kesseli of the NEWS staff