3 teens arrested after game Bottle thrown in auditorium; minors caught with alcohol at hotel

BANGOR – Three Portland teen-agers were arrested in Bangor after Deering High School’s loss to Bangor High School in the Class A state basketball championship on Saturday night.

One was arrested in the Bangor Auditorium shortly after the hometown team won the title 57-56 in the final second of the game. Two others were arrested early Sunday at the Holiday Inn on Main Street.

James Stephens, 18, was charged with disorderly conduct when he threw a soda bottle onto the court. It hit a security guard on the head, but he was not injured.

Stephens admitted that he had thrown the bottle, but told police a Bangor supporter threw it at him first. Police reported that several upset Deering fans threw soda bottles onto the court, but only Stephens was charged.

Barry M. Griffin, 19, was charged with disorderly conduct after police were called to the same room in the Holiday Inn twice in 30 minutes for noise complaints.

“We had been called to the hotel several times this evening,” wrote Officer Robert Angelo in his report. “Each time we arrived, unsupervised children would scatter into rooms. In their wake, they would leave beer cans and bottles strewn throughout the halls.”

When officers arrived on the sixth floor a little after 2 a.m. Sunday, they reported finding an intoxicated girl wandering down the hall. She led them to Room 608, where police found several cases of beer. Police estimated there were more than 75 young people, none of whom appeared to be 21 or older, in that section of the motel.

When no one admitted to owning the beer, Angelo “suggested” they dump the alcohol to avoid a summons. While several of the teens began to dump the beer, Griffin became belligerent, police said. All of the teens were issued disorderly conduct warnings.

At 2:30 a.m., officers returned to the same room. Griffin again became belligerent, according to police. He was given another disorderly conduct warning and a criminal trespass warning, then was told to leave the hotel. When he began swearing and refused to quiet down, Griffin was arrested.

Mark B. Faulkner, 18, was arrested shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday when a desk clerk found him wandering the halls. She called police and told them the man was too intoxicated to communicate with her. When police arrived, he told them his name, but he was not registered at the Holiday Inn.

Faulkner refused to let officers drive him anywhere, according to the police report, but was told to leave the hotel. Officer Alan Woolley said the teen walked out of the front door of the Holiday Inn.

As Woolley was leaving the scene, he saw Faulkner run across the parking lot and try to re-enter the motel through the locked door to the Bounty, a bar. He was charged with criminal trespass.

A Holiday Inn desk clerk, who refused to be identified, said Sunday night that the hotel was full the night of the game. He estimated that at least 75 percent of the guests were Deering fans. He said that furniture in several rooms was damaged and that some guests left behind a “plethora” of beer cans and bottles.

“You’d almost think we had a redemption center here,” he said.