Man charged in assault of four people

Bangor police were called to a rooming house at 73 First St. Sunday night for a report of a fight in a common area of the home.

Upon arriving, police found the commotion upstairs where one man was restraining 30-year-old Robert Harding whom witnesses and other residents identified as being out of control and the instigator in the fight. Police forced Harding to the ground after he was told to stop resisting but kept flailing around instead.

Those inside the rooming house said Harding was intoxicated, having had about a six-pack of beer and two 40-ounce beers, reported Officer James Dearing. Harding gave away one 40-ounce beer to a 26-year-old man, but when he ran out of beer himself, decided to get the beer back. When the man he gave it to refused, Harding followed him, even into the shower, and took the large beer and used it to hit the other man in the jaw.

Hearing the commotion, the other people tried to intercede, but said that Harding went berserk, attacking anyone who tried to interfere. During the scuffle, he kicked the first man two times; kicked a 19-year-old man several times; punched a 20-year-old woman in the face and grabbed a 17-year-old girl and pushed her into the wall. A 21-year-old woman told police that she used Mace on Harding but it had little to no effect.

Harding was charged with four counts of assault.

A Caribou man became belligerent Sunday when told he couldn’t take his 4-foot sword on the bus with him and he was restrained until police arrived.

Officer Dan Herrick reported finding Nathan Lozoway, 24, still being restrained by a passenger behind the Greyhound bus terminal. An employee told Herrick that after he told Lozoway he couldn’t bring the sword on the bus, Lozoway became belligerent and started to unsheathe it. The passenger then grabbed Lozoway and didn’t let go.

Herrick arrested Lozoway, charging him with disorderly conduct and with possession of a suspended license. The officer reported that he spoke to Lozoway’s mother by phone and was told that Lozoway had been born without a thyroid and hasn’t been taking his medication. She said they started having problems with him in his last year of high school.

Old Town police were called to an apartment at 420 South Main St. at 12:25 a.m. Monday where a woman wanted her husband removed. The husband was taken into custody when it was learned he was wanted on warrants from two counties.

Officer Dana Andrews reported that Lionel St. Hillaire, 42, was wanted in Androscoggin County for failure to appear in court on charges of assault and violation of a protection order. St. Hillaire also was wanted in Cumberland County on failure to appear in court on a charge of operating a motor vehicle after license suspension.

Thirty-eight-year-old David Rose, who berated a Bangor police officer for stopping him and two friends while they were taking an early morning walk, turned out to be wanted on a warrant.

Officer Shawn Green was in the area of Cedar and Second streets at 3 a.m. when he stopped the three, although one man walked into a nearby apartment. Green told them they weren’t under arrest but that he wanted to know who they were as they were out so late.

Rose and the other man gave Green their names, with Rose identifying the third man as Mitchell, although he didn’t know his last name, despite being “friends forever.” Told he wasn’t being detained and that he could leave, Rose told Green he had no right to treat him the way he did and that Rose knew Green’s supervisor and “everyone you do.”

Green let them go and drove up to the Rite Aid pharmacy at Third and Union streets and ran a check on the two men. A warrant came back from Ellsworth District Court for Rose and Green returned to the area he had left them and found all three of them walking on First Street. The third man walked off once again, this time heading up a driveway at 21 First St. and disappearing.

Rose denied being who he said he was and tried to convince Green that the man who disappeared was Rose and the one Green had spoken to minutes earlier.

While waiting for confirmation of the warrant, Rose apologized for being a “smartass,” but also told Green that he shouldn’t have pulled him over. He said Green should be pulling over drunken drivers. Confirming the warrant for failure to appear in court on a disorderly conduct charge, Green arrested Rose.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli