Old Town resident arrested in assault

Old Town police arrested a 21-year-old local man this week after it was reported he had barged into his former girlfriend’s home and assaulted her.

The 19-year-old woman told police late Tuesday night that Wayne Robert Stilphen abruptly entered her residence at the Pine Haven Trailer Park, demanding his belongings. They were near the front door and she was making gestures with her hands and telling Stilphen to leave when he grabbed her by the wrists, she told Officer Stephen Boyd.

Stilphen also prevented her from calling the police, ripping the phone from the wall when she tried to get to the phone, according to the police report. He followed her into the living room where Stilphen confronted another man, yelling for him to leave. Stilphen then shoved the man, although the man declined to press charges.

Stilphen allegedly followed his ex-girlfriend outside where she yelled at a woman in a car who had driven Stilphen to her residence. Stilphen then ran back toward the house to get back inside, but his former girlfriend cut him off, prompting Stilphen to push her away. Another man stepped into the fray and told Stilphen to leave, according to the police report.

Stilphen was gone when Boyd arrived, but he went to the police station Wednesday where Boyd interviewed him and then arrested him.

A Bangor police officer who ordered a scantily clad woman off the dance floor at Barnaby’s nightclub in Bangor found himself squaring off against the woman’s angry boyfriend.

The woman had been taking off her pants on the dance floor, revealing that she had only a black thong on beneath, according to a woman who contacted police on duty outside the nightclub. Officer Douglas Moore reported finding the woman with her pants pulled halfway down her thighs and told her she had to leave.

Apparently not seeing that the officer was wearing a uniform, badge and a gun, Thomas N. Hill, 40, of Brewer got close to Moore – about 10 inches from his face – and pointed a finger in his face before saying, “Do you want to [expletive] die?” the officer reported.

Moore asked Hill what he had said and Hill reiterated his statement, according to the police report. When he did, Moore told Hill he was under arrest and the officer then tried to turn Hill around to handcuff him. Hill resisted and Moore pushed him to the floor where, with help from police Lt. Tim Reid, Moore handcuffed Hill.

Hill claimed he didn’t know Moore was a police officer, saying he thought Moore was trying to attract his girlfriend. He told Moore that he didn’t look like a police officer, but did look like someone who would hit on a woman.

Hill was charged with disorderly conduct.

A Bangor woman claimed she was just trying to prevent her husband from leaving when an argument they were having escalated into physical force.

Called to 144 Garland St., No. 3, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Officer Edward A. Mercier could hear the woman yelling inside as he approached the apartment. He found Elaine R. Eldridge, 20, on the telephone talking to friends and initially what she said was that her husband tried to leave and she tried to stop him.

Mercier spoke to the husband at a neighboring apartment and noted that he had a swollen left cheek.

Her husband said he wanted to spend the night at a friend’s house and that his wife blocked his way, preventing him from leaving. He said she also grabbed him and punched him.

“I don’t know, I was very angry,” Eldridge later told Mercier, who arrested her on a charge of domestic assault.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli