Woman accused of making up assault story

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A Bangor woman said she fabricated a story about being assaulted by three men outside the Brewer convenience store where she worked in the hopes that her boss would take her off the graveyard shift.

Brewer police charged Rebecca Glidden, 23, with filing a false public report after she confessed to making up the story about the early Sunday morning assault, according to reports.

Glidden’s complaint prompted an investigation by police, including a search by a K-9 unit from Bangor that failed to come up with any leads outside the Big Apple Store on Wilson Street.

Called to the store about 4:20 a.m., Officer Jason Moffitt and Cpl. Keith Emery found Glidden inside, visibly upset and crying, according to the police report. Her shirt was torn or cut from the midchest area to about the underarm and Glidden claimed that the left side of her face hurt. The investigating officers could see no visible signs of injury, the report indicated.

She told the officers that the three men came from behind the trash receptacle when she went to take out the garbage. Although she remembered little of what happened next, Glidden gave the police a description of the men, saying she had seen them near the store on two other occasions that night.

Moffitt found Glidden’s name tag out by the trash containers, but noted the pin was open and wasn’t bent, as you might expect had it been removed forcibly.

Brought to the station later Sunday and confronted about the officers’ suspicions, Glidden confessed to making the assault up because store management had placed her on the graveyard shift and she didn’t like it, according to police.

“I just wanted off nights,” she told police.

A motorist told an Old Town police officer that she wasn’t having any problems with her driving. This was after the officer saw the vehicle weave in the road and jump a curb on Stillwater Avenue, according to a police report.

The vehicle also had been kicking up dust as it hugged the shoulder and crossed the center line, reported Officer Bobbie Pelletier, who stopped the vehicle about 2 a.m. Sunday.

In talking with driver Fern Marie Dowling, 26, Pelletier could smell alcohol coming from inside the vehicle, something Pelletier said Dowling attributed to a drag queen spilling beer on her arm earlier that night. Dowling denied drinking at all and told Pelletier that she had been at the Spectrum in Bangor where she had been celebrating the birthdays of her sister and girlfriend.

After field sobriety tests, Pelletier arrested Dowling. An Intoxilyzer test registered her blood alcohol content at 0.12 percent or 11/2 times the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Pelletier charged Dowling with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and with operating a motor vehicle after suspension.

Bangor police arrested four young men implicated in dropping water balloons onto unsuspecting motorists on Interstate 95 early Monday morning.

Several Bangor police officers were sent to the area of the northbound lane of I-95 near the Mount Pleasant Cemetery off Ohio Street where there had been reports of snowballs or water balloons being launched at passing vehicles. Approaching a chain-link fence near the scene of the crime, Officer Brad Johnston heard a vehicle approaching the Kenduskeag Stream bridge. Then he heard the thud of a water balloon hitting the vehicle.

Johnston reported that after impact, the driver braked and pulled over into the breakdown lane. Moving toward the area from where the balloons came, Johnston saw three youths who began running into the woods .

The search was on – including help from a police K-9 – and ended with the capture of four people. Shane Rolfe, 18, of Veazie and Ryan Craven, 20, of Bangor were found separately hiding along a steep hill, reported Sgt. Thomas Regan, who also recovered an empty egg carton and a laundry basket with some water balloons still in it. Also found were Derek Watson, 18, of Hampden and Scott Porter, 20, of Bangor who were discovered near 14th Street Extension, according to police.

Rolfe told police that there were two others who had been involved who were not in police custody. All four were charged with reckless conduct and with criminal trespass for being in the cemetery.

Those weren’t tomato plants that Old Town police recovered from a Meadow Lane residence late last week, despite the initial claims by one of the residents.

Answering a report of a domestic disturbance at 30 Meadow Lane, Officer Bobbie Pelletier spoke with Gregory Samuel Fellows, 29, inside the home. Fellows told police that he and girlfriend Stephanie Lynne Demers, 21, had an argument over money and bills, but that it had only been verbal.

Asked about the smell of burnt marijuana the police had smelled upon entering the home, Fellows said that Demers had smoked it and that that was the only marijuana in the home.

While speaking to police, Fellows moved quickly to an area of the kitchen away from police. When Pelletier went to take a closer look, he found Fellows trying to shove a box under the kitchen sink cabinet, according to the police report. The box contained Styrofoam cups with dirt and small green plants in them.

Asked about them, Fellows snickered and said they were tomato plants, according to Pelletier, who suspected otherwise.

Pressed by police Fellows admitted that they were marijuana plants, but said that they belonged to Demers, Pelletier reported. For her part, Demers initially said the plants belonged to both of them, but later recanted, saying she didn’t own them, the police report indicated.

Demers and Fellows were charged with cultivating marijuana and Demers was also charged with sale and use of drug paraphernalia.

A Bangor youth who police said interfered with their investigation into a reported disturbance Saturday was charged with obstructing that investigation.

The disturbance was reported at High and Ohio streets where Officer Dan Herrick found a woman with a kitchen steak knife by her side, squaring off against her boyfriend. Herrick noted that both the man and woman were surprisingly cooperative and sober.

Both denied that the knife had been used during the domestic argument. She said she had been cutting wires with the knife, but the man said she had been using it to remove a stuck tape from a VCR.

Herrick reported that he then tried to interview a group of bystanders about what had taken place and one man came forward and started to explain what he had seen. He never finished, according to Herrick.

Instead, Marcus Shorey, 18, of Bangor, kept insisting that no one say anything and that no one had seen anything, the officer reported. Despite repeated warnings to stop interfering, Shorey continued to intimidate the bystanders and press them to keep quiet.

Herrick arrested Shorey and found that after Shorey was secured in a cruiser, the bystanders had left.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli