Man ‘test-driving’ truck draws OUI charge

A Bangor motorist whose license was suspended told police Sunday that he was behind the wheel because his father wanted him to test-drive his new truck. Police had been told that the man was also intoxicated.

Bangor police officers were called to the Efficiency apartments on Hammond Street at 6:48 p.m. for a report of an intoxicated driver. Officer Kevin MacLaren arrived just as Glen R. Blake, 33, was driving off and MacLaren stopped the car at the exit on West Broadway North. Approaching the truck, MacLaren reported the smell of alcohol coming from inside the truck where Blake and two others were seated. An open beer was visible, according to the police report.

Blake stepped out of the truck, where MacLaren smelled alcohol coming from Blake’s mouth and noted that Blake’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot. Blake initially denied drinking, but didn’t deny that his license had been suspended, explaining to MacLaren about his father’s request to test-drive the new truck.

Blake failed one field sobriety test, couldn’t do another because of an old injury to his knee and refused to do one requiring he count backward, claiming the test was a trick and that he couldn’t even do it when he was sober, MacLaren reported.

Arrested, Blake admitted to drinking the beer that had been seen inside the truck. At the police station, Blake further admitted to drinking hard liquor all night, according to the police report.

He was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants and operating a motor vehicle after license suspension. His blood-alcohol content registered .20 percent on the Intoxilyzer test.

Old Town police charged a 41-year-old man with burglary and assault Saturday after it was reported he entered a Sunrise Trailer Park home without permission and fought with one of the people inside.

Carl Wayne Averill said he had gone to the trailer on Lot No. 26 to visit the mother of his granddaughter who had called him earlier. Their conversation had ended abruptly and Averill told Officer Seth Bear that before the line went dead, he heard the woman crying and her boyfriend yelling in the background.

When Averill arrived at the trailer home, he said, he was invited in by the woman, although she told police a different story. She said Averill walked right past her after she had gone to the door to let him know she was OK and that he couldn’t come in, according to the police report.

The woman’s boyfriend told Detective Michael Holmes that he had gone into a back bedroom to avoid a confrontation with Averill, but that Averill came to him in the bedroom. In the bedroom, Averill grabbed him by the neck and drove him into the wall, breaking it, the man told Holmes. The girlfriend said that she had heard slamming sounds in the bedroom and when she went to investigate saw Averill on top of her boyfriend, choking him.

A 20-year-old Bangor man wanted on a Superior Court warrant was arrested by Bangor police early Monday morning as they were investigating youths with alcohol and marijuana.

Outside the Bounty on Main Street shortly after 1 a.m., police had already seized a 30-pack of beer from one car, which had beer cans strewn about it, despite it being chem-free night at the Bangor nightclub, reported Sgt. Thomas Reagan.

Reagan had spotted two people in another car and had seen the passenger hide a brass marijuana pipe between his legs. Officer Douglas Moore reported that the pipe was not found on the passenger, David W. Theriault, 20, but was located on the floorboard of the car. A computer check revealed that Theriault was wanted on the warrant, issued for probation revocation.

Also charged was the 17-year-old driver of the car, who was summoned for possession of marijuana and illegal transportation of alcohol by a minor, Reagan said. The youth’s name was not released as he is a juvenile.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli