Mattress toter draws attention of officer

On Tuesday morning, Bangor police Officer Shawn Green was on routine patrol when he saw a person walking down the road with a mattress on his back. As he approached the man in his cruiser, the unidentified man started to walk up a set of stairs to an apartment building at 110 Walter St.

Green was aware that there was an active arrest warrant for one of the tenants, Shawn Braley, who lived at that address.

Green pulled up to the building and left his vehicle. He said in a police report that he did not know the identity of the man with the mattress. Green then yelled to the man, saying hello. The unidentified man answered, but he continued to walk away from the officer. Green then asked whether Braley was at the building, and was told that he wasn’t there.

The officer then asked this person to identify himself. The man told Green that his name was Michael Seavey. Green said he knew at that time that the subject was not Michael Seavey, as he had previous dealings with Seavey.

When Green told him that he knew he wasn’t Michael Seavey, the man immediately entered a doorway, which was a common access to the upstairs apartments.

Green followed the man and told him that he was aware that he was Shawn Braley. Green stopped at the bottom of the stairs, which Braley had already climbed. Green yelled up the stairs to Braley, who answered, “What?”

Green told him there was a warrant out for his arrest, and continued to the top of the stairs. Green asked dispatch to confirm the warrant, which was done.

Braley was placed under arrest at 10:24 a.m. Officer Ed Potter arrived on the scene as backup. Green informed Braley that the warrant was for unpaid fines amounting to $700. Green escorted Braley to the cruiser for transport to the Penobscot County Jail. While in the cruiser, Braley made the comment that he was “tripping hard.” When asked what he took, Braley said “acid.”

Braley then told Green that he had left behind two warrants at the apartment. When asked what he meant, Braley said one of the guys who had been present in the apartment had an active warrant out of Calais. Green contacted dispatch to ask them to verify whether the warrant existed. When it was confirmed that the warrant did exist, Green told dispatch that he would return to the apartment house to locate the other subject, Charles Sawyer.

Within 10 minutes, Green was back at 103 Walter St. where he found Charles Sawyer. It was discovered that Sawyer had two warrants issued for unpaid fines amounting to $330. According to Green, he had been drinking. Sawyer was placed under arrest and escorted to the Penobscot County Jail.

A Glenburn woman’s gathering of paperwork for income tax preparation left her husband without proof of registration and insurance when he was pulled over shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday for expired plates.

Bangor police Officer James Hassard stopped Richard Niles, 46, of Glenburn while he was driving a red, 1988 Chevrolet pickup outbound on Broadway that, according to Hassard, still had lobster plates.

According to a police report, Hassard noticed the lobster plate logo and radioed dispatch for a registration check. The plates had expired on June 30, 2000.

Hassard said he stopped the truck on Broadway, near the park. Niles then produced a Maine driver’s license, but could not produce a registration or proof of insurance. Niles explained to Hassard that his wife had taken the paperwork out of the vehicle “to have their taxes done.”

Hassard issued Niles a summons for operating an unregistered motor vehicle and gave him a traffic summons for failing to produce evidence of insurance. His vehicle was not towed away, according to the report.

– Compiled by Alixandra Williams of the NEWS Staff