Bangor police arrested a Corinth man early Saturday after it was reported he wielded what appeared to be a gun while trying to break into a motel room.

Joseph Scott Reeves, 21, was being charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. Police determined that, although realistic looking, the gun Reeves was waving was a plastic replica. Reeves said it was a BB gun. While searching Reeves, police also found in his coat a knife with a 9-inch blade.

The incident occurred about 2:40 a.m. outside Room 403 at the Ranger Inn, where a man Reeves had been looking for was staying with his girlfriend. The man said he had been told that Reeves was looking for him because Reeves believed he had “ratted” on some other people.

Reeves knocked on the door and demanded to be let in, the man told Officer Kevin MacLaren. Looking through the peephole, the man thought he was staring down the barrel of a gun.

The man ducked and braced himself against the door, he told MacLaren. Through the window by the door, he said, he could see Reeves waving the gun. The man’s girlfriend called the police.

Outside, Reeves threatened to kick in the door and said it was pointless to call the police.

MacLaren and Officer George Spencer arrived within minutes and found Reeves and another man nearby. A man staying in another room at the inn told MacLaren that Reeves had visited him briefly and during that time had spoken about the man in Room 403.

“He’s a rat and I want him,” Reeves reportedly had said.

A 21-year-old woman told Orono police that she thinks her former boyfriend is stalking her and that last week he threatened to cut her up.

Raymond Arnold Mallory, 26, of Hampden was charged with terrorizing Wednesday and taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for evaluation after he admitted making the statements. Mallory claimed he had no intention of harming his former girlfriend, telling Officer Richard Bryant that he needed psychological help. He said he gets “bad thoughts” after smoking marijuana, which he frequently does, according to the police report.

Police said Mallory’s former girlfriend appeared genuinely afraid for her safety and was concerned that Mallory was showing up where she was, most recently on Dec. 24 at Wal-Mart. She contacted police the next day.

A driver was treated Saturday at a Bangor hospital for injuries he received after the car he was driving rolled over on Interstate 95 in Carmel. Trooper Vicki Gardner said George Fruthcassidy, 20, of Florida and Frankfort was northbound when he drifted into the breakdown lane. About 8:30 p.m. Fruthcassidy overcorrected to the left and the car rolled over onto its roof and struck ledges, Gardner said.

Fruthcassidy reported that one of his knees was injured. He was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, the trooper reported.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli