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A Veazie man who skipped his court date so that he could go camping over the extended Memorial Day weekend was arrested Thursday on more than a half-dozen warrants.
Mark Chapman, 18, was spotted sitting on his girlfriend’s porch at the Greystone Trailer Park by Veazie police Officer Andrew Whitehouse. Apparently Chapman had expected police to show up at some point as Whitehouse said Chapman knew he had missed his May 25 court date.
Chapman was to have appeared in 3rd District Court in Bangor to face seven charges stemming from a brief car chase he had with Veazie police on April 10. The chase ended with Chapman crashing the car and fleeing the scene. He later reported the car stolen.
A police investigation linked Chapman to the crash and prompted the charges that included operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, assault, failure to stop for a police officer and operating a motor vehicle after suspension.
Chapman was also wanted on an earlier warrant for failure to appear in court for a February conviction for falsifying physical evidence, Whitehouse said Friday.
Confronted by the Veazie police officer, Chapman acknowledged that he had missed his May court date, but said he had been camping over the long weekend and after returning didn’t want to turn himself in.
A disconnected phone call to Old Town police prompted an investigation by authorities that ended with a charge against a husband involved in a verbal fight with his wife Thursday night.
Richard Hammond, 44, admitted to ripping the phone line from the wall, ending the phone call his wife had placed to police at 9:50 p.m. Old Town police Sgt. Travis Roy said that while the fight did not become physical, according to the husband and wife, by preventing his wife from calling police, Hammond had violated Maine statutes. He was charged with obstructing the report of a crime or injury.
Roy said that Hammond’s wife had called an Old Town dispatcher who heard the woman telling her husband not to do something and then the phone went dead.
A Veazie woman who called police to report she had received a harassing phone call from a former friend turned out to be wanted on a warrant.
April Angelo, 30, was wanted on a warrant as Officer Andrew Whitehouse suspected and confirmed via dispatch. The warrant was issued out of Sagadahoc County for failure to pay a fine. Angelo said she knew that she owed a fine, but couldn’t get to Sagadahoc to pay it.
Whitehouse said he followed through on Angelo’s complaint, issuing a warning to the former friend in Bangor not to harass the Veazie woman.
– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli
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