Police arrest man charged with bail, trespass violations

Scheduled to go to trial for charges of criminal trespass and violation of bail conditions, 50-year-old Vaughn C. Scott showed up at a Bangor courthouse in an intoxicated state Thursday and was arrested, according to police.

It was in the waiting area at the 3rd District Court that Scott came to the attention of Bangor police Officers Brian Nichols and Steve Jordan about 1:30 p.m.

Scott was visibly very intoxicated and fell over while sitting on a bench, Nichols reported. Scott made no attempt to brace himself as he headed to the floor but was not injured and was picked up by several other officers, police said.

Jordan determined that Scott had bail conditions that prohibited him from possessing or drinking alcohol, although a Penobscot County prosecutor told Jordan that a plea agreement had been reached and that no arrest was necessary.

In court, Judge Ronald Russell refused to accept the plea agreement, in light of Scott’s condition. The prosecutor gave police permission to arrest Scott and he was taken into custody and walked across the parking lot to the Penobscot County Jail.

Scott refused to take an Intoxilyzer test, telling police that he was drunk. He explained that he knew he was going to jail so wanted to get drunk one last time.

A Bangor man faces a domestic assault charge after it was reported he pushed his wife and grabbed her by the neck during an argument early Wednesday morning.

Also during the argument, Carl Jordan, 32, punched a hole in a bathroom wall, knocked a ceramic decoration off another wall and punched the refrigerator, leaving a dent in the freezer door, according to the police report.

Jordan admitted that he and his wife had an argument, but told Officer Larry Morrill that everything was OK. He denied pushing his wife. Morrill noted that Jordan had scratches on his knuckles.

The officer also found an unloaded single-barrel shotgun behind the door.

Jordan’s wife told police that the argument turned physical after she said something that her husband didn’t like.

The police were called to the Jordan’s home at 12C Birch Hill Estates about 12:15 a.m. for a report of a domestic assault in progress.

A 35-year-old Orrington man was given a criminal trespass warning Thursday after he was discovered in a Husson College women’s bathroom with a video camera.

The man said he had entered the bathroom mistakenly and according to the police report there was no tape in the camcorder and nothing incriminating about the still video pictures that had been stored in the camera’s memory, according to the police report.

Upset that a friend had borrowed his truck and hadn’t returned it, Sean M. Adams, 25, became angry at his live-in girlfriend and pushed her Wednesday, according to police.

The woman came into the Bangor police station and reported the assault, telling Officer Larry Morrill that Adams also had tried to prevent her from leaving their Hammond Street apartment. The 19-year-old woman said that when she told Adams she was going to pack her things and leave, he continued to get in her face, shoved her and told her she wasn’t going to leave.

When she said she was going to leave for good, Adams grabbed a butter knife and began cutting his own wrist.

Adams contacted police to report his truck was missing, but when Morrill went to see him about the assault, Adams said that the vehicle had been returned and that everything was OK. He admitted to pushing his girlfriend and also to cutting his wrist, but said that he had been the one to ask his girlfriend to leave. He told Morrill that he had been arrested before for assault, according to the police report.

Having a police officer stand by as he moved out of his ex-girlfriend’s Bangor home Friday led to Billy Pinkham leaving with something extra, a summons.

Officer Tim Cotton had been sent to 40 Second St. – the home of Pinkham’s former girlfriend – about 9:15 a.m. Pinkham used a key to get in and went to a bedroom where he began to collect his belongings.

His former girlfriend was present but trying to keep out of the way, except Pinkham kept asking her for a necklace, but she refused. He even tried to get Cotton to get it for him, but the officer refused, explaining that that was a civil matter.

Pinkham continued to pack and yell and at one point threw a cat out of the way, upsetting his former girlfriend who took the cat to another room. It was while Pinkham gathered his belongings that he dropped a fireproof lock box and a small bag of leafy green material fell out. Cotton noticed two other bags still inside the box and determined they contained marijuana.

Cotton summoned Pinkham for possession of marijuana, but later determined that the 57.1 grams he discovered were more than enough to charge Pinkham with furnishing marijuana and tracked Pinkham down later Friday and re-summoned him.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli