ORONO – An Orono man remained at the Penobscot County Jail on Thanksgiving night, a day after he was arrested and charged with stabbing another man in the leg with a piece of broken glass.
Daniel McGurn, 36, faces charges of aggravated assault, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in connection with the stabbing late Wednesday night at the Schoppe trailer park on Stillwater Avenue.
Orono police officers were called to Lot No. 2 of the trailer park at 10:11 p.m. Wednesday for what was initially reported as a fight. The police officers found McGurn outside the trailer with a minor hand wound from holding the glass, reported Officer Wilfred King.
The other man, who lives in the trailer at Lot No. 2 and whose leg had been cut, was located at his parents’ mobile home on Lot No. 5.
Although police still have to interview some people, witnesses so far said that McGurn came to the residence at Lot No. 2, entered the home and demanded the keys to a vehicle that didn’t belong to him.
The people in the mobile home refused to give the keys to him, telling McGurn that they would turn them over only to the owner. McGurn was told repeatedly to leave, but refused, witnesses told police.
The injured man told police that he and McGurn fought in the hallway and that McGurn came at him and stabbed him with a piece of glass from a picture frame that had broken.
The man then went into the kitchen and picked up a butcher knife and held it up within sight of McGurn, who was in another room, King reported. The man’s sister intervened and convinced her brother to drop the knife, reported Sgt. Scott Scripture. At that point McGurn went outside.
The injured man went to his parents’ home, where an ambulance later picked him up and took him to Eastern Maine Medical Center. He was treated and released within a few hours.
During an initial search of McGurn, police found a marijuana pipe in his jacket.
Later at the jail, corrections officers found marijuana, Scripture said.
McGurn was initially released from jail after his arrest, but was rearrested after the man he’s charged with stabbing reported that in the early morning hours on Thursday, three calls were made to his residence and that McGurn could be heard in the background in one call making statements about harming him. The man reported the calls to police at about 3:45 a.m. Thursday.
McGurn was not to have any contact with the 25-year-old man and denied contacting him, telling Officer Scott Wilcox that if he didn’t believe him, Wilcox should arrest him. The officer arrested McGurn on a charge of violation of conditions of release.
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