Bangor woman charged with assault after altercation

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A Bangor woman was charged with assault after police said she attacked her husband and stabbed herself in the leg Sunday morning.

Linda McLaughlin, 40, was upset with her husband for not becoming angry when she flirted with other men at a local bar and attacked him later at home, police reported.

At home, the woman shoved her husband into a wall, ripped out a handful of his hair, and scratched him, Bangor police Officer Daniel Herrick said.

Police were summoned to the home at 1:17 a.m. Sunday after neighbors heard the pair fighting. They arrived at the home for a second time at 2:53 a.m. after the alleged assault occurred.

A steak knife with blood on the blade was recovered from under an overturned mattress along with a pair of blood-stained dungarees, Herrick said. The clump of hair from the husband’s head also was recovered.

Police found that McLaughlin had suffered a stab wound to her leg. McLaughlin told police she had stabbed herself, Herrick said. She was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center, where she had two stitches before being taken to Penobscot County Jail.

A Bangor man was charged with criminal mischief Sunday morning after police said he punched out the window of a rental car.

William Feltner, 43, had flagged down a vehicle driven by people he knew and threatened the male driver before punching out the driver’s side window of the 2001 Dodge Neon as the driver was trying to drive away, Bangor police Officer Allen Woolley said.

Neither the driver nor his two passengers was injured.

Police arrested Feltner, who reportedly was intoxicated, and took him to Penobscot County Jail, Woolley said.

Bangor police were looking for suspects after three car windows were broken Saturday night or early Sunday.

The front passenger window was broken out of a gray 1993 Mitsubishi Eclipse around 3:30 a.m. on Davis Road, while the rear passenger window of a white Pontiac Grand Am was broken sometime during the night in the parking lot at the Days Inn on Odlin Road.

Police believe a pellet gun was used to shoot out the front driver’s side window of a 1995 Chevy Tahoe Saturday night on Jowett Street. Total damage to all three vehicles was estimated at $500.

Anyone with information about the vandalism should contact Bangor police at 947-7384.

More than $4,000 was taken from a Kenduskeag Avenue home Saturday evening.

A burglar gained entry by breaking out a window and opening a side door from the inside, Bangor police Officer Brent Beaulieu said.

The intruder left several drawers in the home open and stole $2,000 from each of two safes in the house, police reported.

A safe that had been hidden behind a bedroom door was opened with tools from the home’s garage. A second safe, unlocked and hidden under a bed, also was burglarized, Beaulieu said.

Witnesses reported seeing a man and a truck at the home during the 80 minutes that the resident was gone from the home. Police removed several fingerprints from the scene.

A couple’s argument escalated into one civil and four criminal charges against a Trenton man.

Police said Rodney Williams, 26, assaulted his girlfriend at a Bangor bar early Saturday after she failed to tell him someone had bumped into her, police reported Saturday.

The woman left the bar and went to a friend’s house in Brewer. Williams followed her to the apartment and broke a door in half by kicking it while trying to get into the friend’s apartment, Cpl. Jason Moffitt of the Brewer Police Department said.

In the apartment, Williams assaulted the woman again before she was able leave and go to a neighboring home, Moffitt said. Williams fled the scene just as police arrived.

The Trenton man was arrested on the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge, where police seized a small amount of marijuana that he had been carrying, Moffitt said.

Williams was charged with burglary, assault, criminal mischief, criminal threatening, and possession of marijuana.

Williams, who was being held at the Penobscot County Jail on $1,500 bail, told police he had not been involved in any of the events, Moffitt said.

A Millinocket police cruiser was involved in an accident Saturday after a traffic stop for a man suspected of drunken driving.

A citizen’s report led police to pull over Carlton Bernier, 52, of Millinocket at noon, Officer Robert Johansen of the Millinocket Police Department said.

Bernier left his truck in neutral. It rolled backward during the stop on Elm Street and struck the cruiser driven by Officer Ronald McCarthy, Johansen said.

After failing field sobriety tests, Bernier was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, police reported. The cruiser had minor damage to the front end and was still operable, Deputy David Duplisea of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said.

Results of a test to find Bernier’s blood alcohol level will not be available for at least another week, Johansen said. Bernier was released after posting $40 bail.

Police charged a Bangor man early Saturday with operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Vaughn Scott, 50, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle after suspension as a habitual offender, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, and violation of bail.

Scott had been released from jail on bail after being charged with obstructing a public way.

Scott was pulled over on Fourteenth Street after police noticed a vehicle being driven erratically, Officer Shawn Green of the Bangor Police Department said.

After failing field sobriety tests, Scott was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.15 percent, Green said. The legal limit for a person over 21 in Maine is 0.08 percent.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton