Noise report leads to woman’s arrest

Moments after being warned by Brewer police officers to quiet down earlier this week, a woman slammed the door, an act that was accompanied by a loud expletive directed at the departing officers, police said.

That prompted the officers to return down the hallway at the Ebbtide Motel, knock on the door and arrest the woman when they were let in. Charged with disorderly conduct in the late-night incident Monday was Lynette Phelps, 38.

A neighbor had called Brewer police at 10:13 p.m. to complain about the noise coming from Phelps’ apartment, saying he was being disturbed by loud voices and pounding on the floor.

Officer Jason Moffitt reported that he stood outside and could clearly hear a woman’s voice. He and Cpl. Fred Luce knocked on the door where the noise was coming from and came face to face with Phelps, who Moffitt reported appeared intoxicated and became argumentative.

The officers explained to Phelps why they were there and that if they returned again for the same thing, she would be charged with disorderly conduct. They then left. She slammed the door behind them, police said.

The incident was d?j? vu for both Moffitt and Phelps, as Moffitt said he had arrested her in Glenburn several years earlier as a Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy on a similar incident.

Brewer police investigating a report of a drug trade Tuesday night didn’t uncover any illicit drugs, but did find a man who had been eluding the court system.

A resident called police to report suspicious activity at the skate park and what appeared to be one man handing off something quickly to another man. One of the men was described as wearing a red baseball cap.

Approaching the skate park from Fling Street, Cpl. Levi Sewall spotted the red-capped man and stopped to talk to him. The man identified himself as Eric Pinkham.

“As soon as he said, ‘Pinkham,’ I knew who he was,” Sewall said, recognizing the man as Mark Pinkham, an 18-year-old former Brewer resident who was wanted on a warrant. The warrant was issued out of 3rd District Court in Bangor for failure to appear in court on a burglary charge.

Pinkham lives in Portland and apparently was just visiting in Brewer when he was arrested.

– Compiled by NEWS Reporter Doug Kesseli