Two men arrested in Bangor incident Alcohol-related charges include trespass, OUI

Bangor police arrested two men early Sunday morning in connection with an incident at a State Street convenience store involving alcohol.

Oscar Hughes, 34, of Bangor was charged with operating under the influence and operating after suspension. Lloyd Simpson, 39, of Newburgh was arrested on a criminal trespass charge after heckling police and refusing to leave the store property, despite being warned that his failure to do so would result in his arrest. Both men were taken to Penobscot County Jail.

According to police reports, Officer Russell Twaddell III was inside the 7-Eleven when he saw Hughes enter the parking lot in his black 1988 Pontiac Trans Am. After parking his car two spaces from Twaddell’s police cruiser, the officer reported, the driver climbed unsteadily out of his car, leaning heavily on the door as he did so.

After buying a 12-pack of beer and a soda, the driver left the store. Outside, Twaddell asked the driver how much he had had to drink that night.

“Not much,” Hughes said. According to the arrest report, Hughes fared poorly on his field sobriety tests and repeatedly refused to allow police to take a blood alcohol content test.

Twaddell, who arrested Hughes, learned that the man’s license was under suspension because of an OUI conviction.

During the incident, police said, Simpson began heckling the officer. The store’s night manager asked Twaddell to remove Simpson for intoxication and using profane language. As Twaddell was telling Simpson to leave, Officer Chris Desmond arrived.

Simpson initially agreed to leave, but as he reached the edge of the property, he changed his mind and told officers, “I don’t have to go.”

Desmond repeatedly warned Simpson, but Simpson continued to advance toward him, according to police, until his arrest.

A 21-year-old man was arrested outside his family’s home in Veazie late Thursday after family members said he was acting out of control in their driveway and had been trying to get inside.

Jeremy Dunn, on probation for a terrorizing incident earlier this year, faces several charges, including criminal trespass, theft, violation of a protection order and possession of a Schedule Y drug.

A protection order issued on behalf of Dunn’s sister prohibited Dunn from being at the Ridgeview residence where his sister and father live. According to police, Dunn had been there twice on Thursday. The first time, Dunn had gone inside the home, where police suspected he removed a bottle of prescription medications, later found in his car, reported Veazie police Officer Andrew Whitehouse. Police were called to the home about 10:30 p.m. after Dunn tried to get back inside and was banging on the door, Whitehouse said.

Dunn was backing out of the driveway when Whitehouse arrived and the officer ordered Dunn out of the car and arrested him. A search of the car uncovered several prescription medicines, including one that belonged to a family member who had not given Dunn permission to take the medicine.

Whitehouse said that Dunn’s probation officer ordered a probation hold on Dunn.

A 25-year-old Bangor man was arrested early Saturday after fleeing a taxi without paying the fare.

David Libby was charged with theft of service and taken to Penobscot County Jail, according to Bangor police reports.

Police were sent to the intersection of Center and Cumberland streets after a dispatcher fielded a complaint about an intoxicated man banging on the hood of a taxicab. When police arrived, they didn’t see anyone banging but found a cabdriver who told them that he had given a man a ride but that the man jumped out of the vehicle and ran off without paying the $3.85 fare.

The cabbie said he had seen the man run down the driveway of 114 Center St. The officer accompanied the cabdriver to the Center Street address and found the man sitting in a car in the driveway. The man, identified as Libby, volunteered that he did not mean to “stiff the taxi,” according to police. At the time of his arrest, he had $85 in cash on his person.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Dawn Gagnon and Doug Kesseli