Bangor man accused of leaving accident scene

When a 22-year-old Bangor man was asked what his car was doing in a Broadway ditch, he told police “he had an argument with a deer last night and went off the road.”

Brian T. Ames Jr. of Bangor claimed he was planning to return in the morning to tow the 1989 Volkswagen Jetta out with a pickup truck. The vehicle crashed into a ditch in the front yard at 2146 Broadway about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. A neighbor heard the crash but did not report it.

Bangor Police Officer Brian Nichols checked the area and found no deer tracks but did find evidence of the car swerving, according to the police report.

Ames told police that after avoiding the deer, he overcorrected multiple times, crossing over the centerline and finally resting in the ditch. He was charged with failure to give notice of an accident by the quickest means and leaving the scene of a vehicle damage accident.

An intoxicated woman demanded sex from an officer responding to a report of loud, intoxicated people “fighting and smashing things” in a Union Street apartment.

According to reporting Officer Rob Angelo, Officer Erik Tall was solicited by 41-year-old Bangor resident Deborah Prosper while responding to the 1:50 a.m. call Monday.

Prosper and 40-year-old Michael Gordon, also of Bangor, were given warnings. Sensing that the warning would go unheeded, the officers waited in front of the building. According to police reports, the noise quickly resumed and the officers stood near the apartment windows as Prosper yelled about cooking on the stove while smashing a dish and Gordon kicked walls and yelled.

As police approached the door Gordon stepped outside to relieve himself. He was placed under arrest by Officer Brent Beaulieu who charged him with disorderly conduct and violation of conditions of release. Tall and Angelo arrested Prosper for disorderly conduct.

A freak explosion in a 1979 Chevrolet Corvette caused extensive damage inside the sports car but no injuries to the driver or his passenger Monday.

Dana Spencer, 48, of Bangor and his passenger, Lynette Phelps, 38, of Brewer were driving down South Main Street when a spray paint can rolled onto the Corvette’s battery compartment, located behind the driver’s seat. The battery compartment apparently was exposed, and both the positive and negative terminals came into contact with the canister, causing it to explode, reported Sgt. Chris Martin.

Neither Spencer nor Phelps was injured, although Martin estimated that $2,000 of damage was done to the interior of the Corvette.

Bangor police arrested a man who admitted to drinking all night, getting into his car and driving from Dover-Foxcroft to Bangor on Saturday.

During his travels, the driver nearly ran one motorist off the road, rear-ended another, and may have sideswiped several vehicles in Corinth, witnesses told police.

The driver came to the attention of Lt. Robert Welch about noontime Saturday as Welch was directing traffic on Finson Road and Ohio Street where a detour from Broadway was causing traffic congestion. Welch reported that he had been flagged down by several motorists who pointed to a blue sedan as having fled an accident scene.

Welch pulled the car over using the police SUV and approached 46-year-old Samuel Nutter, the driver and sole occupant of the car. Alcohol could be smelled coming from Nutter and his eyes were glassy.

Nutter’s license was in his glove box, but instead of reaching over and getting it from inside the car, Nutter got out, walked around the car and got into the front passenger seat to open the glove box. He also performed poorly on field sobriety tests, the police report indicated.

An Intoxilyzer test registered Nutter’s blood-alcohol content at 0.30 percent, nearly four times the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Nutter admitted later that he had had more than two beers and that he had been drinking all night.

Nutter was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

After a report of an intoxicated man breaking a window at a Center Street residence, Richard Jenkins, a transient, was charged with criminal mischief and violation of probation.

The 30-year-old Jenkins was found getting into a vehicle with friends by Officer Butch Moor on Cumberland Street at 2:59 p.m. Friday.

According to a report by Officer Paul Colley, a belligerent Jenkins had a hard time standing while officers contacted his probation officer.

During the arrest, Jenkins took a bottle of Klonopin, an anti-anxiety and anti-seizure medication, and swallowed an unknown number of pills, according to the police report.

Despite the intake of medication, he remained uncooperative and was charged with criminal mischief by Moor.

– Compiled by Monique Gibouleau and Doug Kesseli of the NEWS Staff