Bangor woman accused of assaulting husband

A Bangor couple’s New Year’s Eve celebration went awry after the wife reportedly became intoxicated and violent, biting her husband on the arm.

Denise Savoy, 43, also became angry with police, swinging, kicking and spitting at them when they took her into custody, according to police. Savoy is being charged with domestic assault and refusing to submit to arrest.

Bangor police Officers Chris Morley and Rob Angelo were called at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday to the Ramada Inn on the Odlin Road for a report of a fight in progress and found that the two sides had been separated. Savoy was near the entrance, yelling at the top of her lungs, screaming obscenities in the parking lot. She then began pounding on the entranceway windows with her fists, Morley reported.

The officers placed Savoy in a cruiser, but reported that she was kicking and spitting at them. Her husband told Officer Robert Hutchings that his wife had been drinking too much that night and became out of control. She bit him on the left forearm where, Hutchings reported, the skin had been broken and the wound was quite swollen.

As the officers tried to arrest Savoy, she continued to be combative, according to police. On the way to the Penobscot County Jail, she remained unruly and reportedly threatened to tell the police chief and her father that the officers had raped her while in custody.

An Orono Middle School pupil with a history of making threats is scheduled to appear in court this month in connection with a bomb threat left in the town’s public library.

The youth, 13, was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with terrorizing, about 90 minutes after the message, written on a restroom stall in the library, was discovered, reported Orono police Detective Sgt. Robert Bryant.

The message indicated that a bomb would blow up after school that same day. Another pupil’s name was left to throw police off and to suggest that someone else had penned the threat.

Bryant and the school resource officer, Will Sheehan, obtained a list of everyone who had had access to the area and interviewed several people. But in light of previous threatening incidents involving the youth, investigators quickly narrowed their focus and, interviewing the suspect with his parents present, that afternoon obtained a confession, Bryant said.

The name of the youth was not being released as he is a juvenile.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli