Mother charged with assault Police say daughter was slapped, choked

A 49-year-old woman was arrested Thursday afternoon in Old Town after police reported she slapped and choked her 19-year-old daughter.

The daughter told Officer Chris Hashey that her mother, Frances T. Eldridge, choked her until she blacked out. Hashey said that he found raised red marks on the woman’s neck.

Eldridge admitted to slapping her daughter and also acknowledged that she had put her hand around her daughter’s neck, Hashey reported.

The two had been arguing and the mother told Hashey that she had had enough of her daughter’s verbal abuse. Hashey arrested her on a charge of domestic assault.

A trailer being hauled by a pickup truck on the Veterans Remembrance Bridge fishtailed and spun around, hitting the pickup truck late Thursday afternoon.

Traffic was slowed and at times came to a complete stop in the eastbound lane of Interstate 395 after the accident that occurred about 5:10 p.m.

Maine State Police Trooper Dan Ryan said that for some reason the trailer began to fishtail – perhaps after it encountered heavy crosswinds on the bridge – and that the truck’s driver Jason Sudborough, 25, of Bangor lost control of the truck and skidded into the railing.

Sudborough wasn’t injured, although the McClure’s Landscaping truck he was driving received damage to both the front and the back right-rear quarter where the trailer struck, Ryan reported. The trooper estimated the damage to be $3,000. The trailer was hauling empty barrels, he said.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli