Expired inspection helps police nab Veazie motorist

A Veazie woman whose driving privileges have been suspended for at least two years – even though she didn’t have a driver’s license – was arrested Sunday after she was spotted driving an uninspected motor vehicle.

Veazie police Officer Andrew Whitehouse discovered that April Angelo, 30, was wanted by authorities in Sagadahoc and Washington counties on warrants, and that she didn’t have a license.

Both warrants were for failure to pay fines. In Sagadahoc County, Angelo had been convicted of operating a motor vehicle after license suspension.

On Sunday afternoon, Whitehouse saw the car Angelo was driving had an expired inspection sticker. He pulled in behind her at the Veazie Variety store on State Street. She told Whitehouse that she borrowed her niece’s car to get soup for her sick daughter at home, although Whitehouse reported that Angelo had no money and that he could reach no one at her home.

A records check showed the warrants as well as about a dozen suspensions of Angelo’s license, and that at no time since at least 1999 had her driving privileges been restored. Angelo had been charged twice before with operating after suspension, and Sunday made it her third.

The vehicle was left at the store, and Angelo and her 13-year-old son were taken to their Graystone Trailer Park home, where the son was dropped off. Out of view of the son and trailer, Whitehouse then arrested Angelo.

The vehicle Angelo had been driving belonged to Angelo’s niece Danielle White, 21, of Portland. She told Whitehouse that she gave Angelo permission to drive it, despite Angelo’s motor vehicle history. Whitehouse summoned White when she returned to pick up the vehicle, charging her with permitting unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

A Bangor man recently released from jail faces several charges, including criminal threatening, after his wife told police he had threatened to kill her.

Buddy Sanders, 45, was charged late last week with assault, criminal restraint and criminal threatening. His wife told police she allowed him to return home after his release from jail because he wasn’t drinking and that she dropped a protection order she had taken out against him, according to the police report.

But on Friday, she said Sanders began drinking heavily and with the drinking came violence. Sanders told her that he was going to kill her and that he was going to put her head through a television set. As he said this, he grabbed her by the head and shoved her toward the TV, the woman told Officer Steve Jordan.

Sanders made other threats, and when she decided to leave their home, Sanders blocked the door, although she said she was able to slip past him.

The woman gave police a key to the home and allowed the officer to enter. Jordan said he found Sanders passed out in a living room chair. When Sanders came to, police handcuffed him and took him into custody, again.

Terrorizing and failure to submit to arrest were the charges Bangor police lodged against Derek Harper, 28, late Friday night after word of a fight he had with his girlfriend, then with police.

Harper’s live-in girlfriend told Officer James Dearing that earlier that night she became fearful of her boyfriend and that she became concerned that he was about to assault her. She said that Harper had become angry and told her to leave his First Street apartment because he would be dead in the morning.

Harper started kicking anything in his path, including a kitchen stove, she reported. At one point he unplugged the telephone. He followed her around the apartment, making sure that she was scared of him, she told the officer. She said that she believed, had she stayed, she would have been assaulted.

The woman also told Dearing that Harper would fight with the officers if they went to arrest him.

In the hallway outside the apartment, police said, Harper resisted when officers tried to take him into custody. Dearing reported that Harper tried to flail his arms at them, but couldn’t within the confines of the hallway. After the brief struggle, the officers arrested Harper.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli