Bangor police arrested a Court Street woman Friday after her claims that a former girlfriend broke into her apartment and assaulted her proved false, according to officers.

Susan Swoboda, 35, also faces a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after a search of her apartment uncovered several items associated with drug use, including scissors and a razor blade which Swoboda admitted she used to clean her pot pipe.

Called to an apartment at 76 Court St. about 12:20 a.m., Officer Brent Beaulieu found Swoboda’s former girlfriend waiting outside of the apartment. The 36-year-old woman said she recently had broken up with Swoboda, but had spent much of the day with her and that they had been drinking.

When Swoboda began yelling at her, she fled the apartment through a window and down a fire escape, taking two 40-ounce beers with her, the woman reported. She intentionally broke the beer bottles outside, angering Swoboda further and prompting a fight between them.

Swoboda insisted that her former girlfriend had broken in through a window and assaulted her and that she wanted her arrested. Swoboda initially claimed that she hadn’t seen the other woman before the alleged break-in, although a chicken cordon bleu meal that her former girlfriend had prepared for supper was in Swoboda’s refrigerator, the officer reported.

Beaulieu arrested Swoboda and, along with Bangor police Officer Erik Tall, searched the apartment. Swoboda had told the officers that they could go ahead and search her apartment as she doesn’t keep her drugs inside, but hides them outside.

In addition to finding the scissors and razor blade, Tall found a small silver tube with white residue in it. Swoboda told him that it had been used to hold her cocaine and Beaulieu found a marijuana pipe inside a leather jacket.

A Bangor man was charged this week with breaking into his former girlfriend’s Orono apartment and assaulting her new boyfriend.

Eletherios Minas, 21, faces a charge of burglary and two counts of assault after the incident early Monday morning. Minas was arrested a short time after the assault was reported as he returned to his campus residence at Eastern Maine Technical College.

Minas’ former girlfriend told Orono police Officer Wilfred King that they had broken up recently but were still good friends. She said Minas had asked her to call him after her date Sunday, but that she didn’t answer his phone messages that night, or the numerous phone calls that came when she returned from the date, that she took the phone off the hook.

About 3:30 a.m., her doorbell rang repeatedly, according to the police report. When she opened the door only wide enough to tell Minas to leave, he pushed the door and then forced it open and headed to her bedroom.

There he began yelling at her date and then pushed him several times, according to the police report. She told King that she tried to call police, but that Minas took the phone and smashed it against some shelving, breaking the phone. The new boyfriend called police on a cell phone and, learning this, Minas headed for the door.

But before he reached the door, he pushed the new boyfriend into a closet and punched him in the head. The man said he had been struck in the face and could feel at least three bumps on his head.

An attempt-to-locate bulletin was broadcast to local police, and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Tibbetts waited at EMTC, catching Minas as he drove into the parking lot. At the Penobscot County Jail, Minas admitted to everything, telling King he had lost control, the officer said Friday.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli