November 15, 2024
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Police recover tools stolen from Holden

Authorities have recovered some of the estimated $9,000 in tools taken from a Holden construction site, including some items recovered from an Eddington home.

No charges have been filed yet and police said Thursday that the investigation will continue. The tools were taken sometime early Wednesday morning from outside a home under construction off Mann Hill Road in Holden, said Holden Deputy Gene Worcester of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department. The construction company, Quality Construction in Carmel, stored the tools in a trailer and workers discovered them gone later Wednesday.

The investigation led authorities to a home in Eddington on Thursday, although Worcester said no arrests were made.

Brewer police arrested Peter Wing, 39, a transient Wednesday after they said he was involved in several disorderly incidents, including being loud and using profanity near a school.

Wing was first seen walking down Wilson Street with his girlfriend around noontime. They were hitting each other with sticks, according to a witness who wasn’t sure whether they were fooling around or involved in an altercation. Officer John Knapp said both appeared to be intoxicated and that Wing became confrontational when Knapp told him to quiet down. Knapp let them go on their way when it was determined that Wing was no longer on probation.

More than five hours later, Wing surfaced again, this time apparently urinating behind the trash receptacle at the Brooks Pharmacy in Brewer. Wing’s girlfriend was walking toward the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge and Wing was yelling to her as Brewer police Officer Paul Gauvin confronted the man about what he was doing.

“They got me now,” he shouted to his girlfriend. He admitted to going to the bathroom and continued to yell and swear, despite warnings to quiet down. The Act Program school is nearby and police were concerned that young children had seen or heard something they shouldn’t have. Gauvin reported that children had come to the window after hearing the shouting.

When Wing didn’t quiet down after the warnings, Gauvin arrested him, charging him with disorderly conduct.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli


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