Youth accused of burglary, carrying concealed gun

A 13-year-old Orono boy remains under house arrest after police found he had broken into a woman’s home late Sunday night and had a loaded semiautomatic gun with him.

The boy admitted to taking a credit card and ID from another residence at Talmar Wood earlier that same night and other charges are pending against him from similar burglaries several weeks ago, reported Sgt. Gary Duquette of the Orono Police Department.

The boy, who police did not identify because he is a juvenile, faces a felony charge of burglary as well as charges for theft and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, all stemming from Sunday night.

Police were called shortly after 11 p.m. to the woman’s residence where she said she had been awakened by sounds coming from her living room downstairs. She noticed the lights were on, even though she had turned them off.

The woman went downstairs and confronted the 13-year-old boy, telling him to stay put until police arrived.

Officer Wilfred King briefly interviewed the boy and asked him whether he had anything on him that the police should know about. The boy reached into his pocket. King grabbed the hand and pulled it out then reached in and pulled out the loaded .25-caliber gun.

Outside, police found a large butcher knife on the ground, alongside a screen that had been pried, allowing the boy access into the kitchen.

The police also recovered a credit card and ID belonging to a woman that the boy initially claimed was his sister, Duquette said. The boy’s father didn’t recognize the woman pictured on the ID and the boy subsequently admitted to taking them from another home in Talmar Wood. The boy said he hadn’t entered the first home, just reached in and grabbed the ID and credit card from where they had been placed, near the window.

As part of his house arrest, the boy only is allowed to leave home to go to school, Duquette said.

Two University of Maine students were summoned for assault after it was reported they struck a 24-year-old man as he was heading home from an Orono bar early Friday morning.

The man was taken to the hospital and required stitches in his mouth.

Brendan Donovan, 21, admitted to punching a 24-year-old man in the mouth after following the man along Park Street. The man had left Ushuaia, a nightclub, and was heading to Talmar Wood housing complex shortly before 2 a.m. Friday, according to the police report. Donovan is listed on the roster of the University of Maine hockey team.

Also summoned was Matthew Walsh, 20, who was identified by the 24-year-old man as having kicked him after he fell to the ground from the punch from Donovan.

The incident had racial overtones and began when the alleged victim was confronted outside of Ushuaia by a large, unidentified man who wanted to fight him, reported Officer Richard Bryant. The 24-year-old man didn’t want to fight and walked away.

Donovan and Walsh were part of a group of about eight men, the man said, that had been pushing and taunting him as he walked home. Some member of the group said a racial slur to the 24-year-old black man.

During an interview with Detective Sgt. Robert Bryant, Donovan was shown a picture of the injured man and Donovan admitted to hitting him, according to the police. When Bryant tried to interview Walsh, Walsh told him that he had family members in the CIA and wasn’t going to be questioned, according to police. Walsh then left the police station.

After a brief stint of yelling in the road in Orrington late Sunday night, a Hudson man fled from police, but was captured after fleeing into a home and then out again.

Kellen Wright, 20, it turns out, already was wanted by authorities on a warrant for failure to appear in court on a charge of operating a motor vehicle after suspension.

But initially, Sgt. John Skroski of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department wanted to find out who he was and why he was yelling in the middle of Dow Road at 11:45 p.m. Wright fled from Skroski, running through someone’s back yard and into some bird feeders before heading into a home at 45 Dow Road.

The people inside had seen Wright before, but wanted him out of their home, Skroski said. Wright was upstairs and Skroski convinced him to come downstairs where Skroski eventually learned the man’s name.

Wright took flight again when Skroski grabbed his arm and tried to take him into custody on the deck of the home. The chase lead through a wooded area and into a field where Skroski apprehended Wright, who began to lose his footing.

Wright was charged with refusing to submit to an arrest or detention.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli