Several arrested when police clear lounge

Several men were arrested in connection to fights at Barnaby’s lounge, a Bangor night spot, late Friday night. The most serious of the charges involves a California man who reportedly punched and kicked another man and threw a beer bottle at him at close range.

The injured man’s fiancee said that Brett Allen Johnson, 23, of San Diego, Calif., had grabbed her shirt while she was on the dance floor and had lifted it up. Her fiance confronted Johnson, she told Bangor police Officer James Dearing, and Johnson punched him, knocking him to the ground.

A woman who was standing at the edge of the dance floor saw the man fall and then saw Johnson kick him in the side. Then, “with all his might,” Johnson threw a beer bottle at the man from about two feet away, the woman told police.

Johnson fled, but was spotted by Bangor Police Sgt. Thomas Reagan, who chased him down Odlin Road until Johnson was intercepted by a police cruiser and stopped near the Irving Mainway store. Johnson admitted he had hit another man inside the bar, saying he fled because he didn’t’ want any trouble from the police.

Returned to the Ramada, Johnson was being detained when he was approached by a woman who asked him if he had hurt the other man.

“Ya, I did,” he allegedly said, also claiming that the man deserved the beating, he said within earshot of Officer Ed Potter. Johnson had blood on his right pinky as well as what appeared to be blood on his pants. At the Penobscot County Jail, the pants were seized as evidence, Potter reported.

A second man was arrested while police were continuing their investigation into the fight and tried to clear the room by encouraging people to finish what they were drinking and leave. David Robert Radford, 23, of Riverview, New Brunswick, was charged with criminal trespass and obstructing government administration after police reported he refused repeated efforts by them to get him to leave.

Radford claimed he would leave at his leisure and that he was a law student and said that he would see the police in court if they tried to arrest him.

Richard Hachey, 28, of Veazie was arrested on a warrant and charged with criminal trespass after police escorted him out and Reagan reported seeing him sneak back into the lobby and then back into a bathroom.

Finally, Roger D. Collins Jr., 28, of Orono was arrested by police after an officer reported seeing him standing outside by a car unzipping his fly and then leaning toward a police cruiser and relieving himself on the cruiser’s tire.

Officer Dan Herrick jogged over to Collins and reported finding the tire wet and steam rising from a puddle by the tire.

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A 51-year-old man faces several charges stemming from a fight on Griffin Road in Bangor Christmas night in which it was reported he trashed the residence, assaulted his former girlfriend and chased another man with a knife.

Joseph A. Clark is being charged with two counts of assault, criminal mischief and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon for an incident during which his former girlfriend said he “went crazy.”

The woman was bleeding from the forehead when she told Officer Steve Jordan that Clark began attacking and hitting her and breaking everything in the apartment she shares with her sister. The sister’s boyfriend was in the basement using Clark’s BB gun, he told police, when he heard the sounds of a fight upstairs and went to investigate.

Clark was trashing the place and began throwing several things at him, hitting him in the head, said the man who was taken to St. Joseph Hospital to be treated for his injuries. At the hospital he spoke to the Officer Myron Warner, telling him that Clark also pulled out a knife and began chasing him with it.

Both sisters became entangled with Clark when he tried to chase one of them and the boyfriend said he tried to step in to break it up. In the struggle, the boyfriend fell down and someone fell on top of him, apparently breaking his ankle.

The knife was not found, Warner reported, although Clark was carrying a knife pouch on his belt.

Clark was belligerent and resisted when police arrested him and at the Penobscot County Jail, where corrections officers placed him in several restraints and in a cell, according to police reports.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli