BANGOR – Police arrested a 32-year-old man Wednesday night after it was reported he forced his way into a home and chased a resident from room to room, assaulting him.

The resident told police he threw a bicycle, telephone and a child’s high-chair tray to fend off the attacks by the man, whom police identified as Timothy Lever of Bangor. The resident told police he couldn’t leave the home because his 13-month-old son was upstairs, but he did manage to call them on his portable phone and get the intruder outside.

He struggled with Lever on the porch and his shouts for help were heard by neighbors, including one man who ran to help hold down Lever until police arrived, reported Bangor police Officer Russell Twaddell.

The two had difficulty restraining the 6-foot-2-inch, 250-pound Lever, who even struggled with five police officers, according to a report. Lever refused to get into the police cruiser after he was handcuffed and had to be pushed and pulled inside the vehicle, police said.

The resident, whom police did not name and would only identify as living on the city’s east side, told Twaddell that he was home alone with his infant when he heard a loud knocking on the door shortly before 8:30 p.m. He answered the door and found Lever there. Lever thought that the resident was trespassing and demanded that he leave, according to police.

“You are an intruder, get out,” Lever told the resident, according to the police report.

Lever then tried to pull the man outside the home, police said. When the resident broke from Lever’s grip and fled inside, Lever pursued him inside. The resident told Twaddell that Lever caught him several times, putting him in a headlock and choking him, according to the police report.

Twaddell said that Lever chased the man from room to room several times. As he did, the resident sought to fend off his attacker with “basically anything he could get his hands on,” Twaddell said late Wednesday night.

It is unclear what prompted the incident, but Twaddell said that neither alcohol nor drugs was believed involved. The resident told Twaddell that he felt that Lever was intending to do him serious harm and maybe even kill him.