Police charge Corinth man with terrorizing

A Corinth man was charged with terrorizing after it was alleged that he told a bouncer at a Bangor adult club that he “oughta” shoot him and police found a loaded gun inside the man’s truck.

The incident followed an argument that Steven J. Haskell, 43, had with the bouncer at the Diva’s Gentleman’s Club early Tuesday morning. Haskell apparently became impatient while waiting with others outside the VIP section of the downtown establishment and he began knocking things down, the bouncer told police. Haskell threw his drink down the stairs and insisted he needed another drink as the bouncer was trying to get him to leave.

The bouncer said he had to physically remove Haskell and waited a few minutes before going outside to check to see if anything was going on. Haskell was in the truck, drinking a beer and “messing with something in his hands,” the man later told Officer James Dearing.

Haskell asked him whether he was the one that threw him out and when the bouncer said yes, Haskell responded, “I oughta shoot you right now,” according to the police report.

Haskell left in his extended cab pickup truck, driven at the time by his son-in-law. The bouncer called police about 1 a.m. and Dearing, who was parked by City Hall at the time, pulled in behind the pickup truck as it drove down Harlow Street. With other police officers assisting, Dearing stopped the pickup truck and ordered the men out at gunpoint.

Officer Rob Angelo searched the pickup truck and reported finding a .25 caliber pistol under the passenger seat with one round in the chamber. A magazine containing five more rounds was found in the back of the extended cab.

A 46-year-old woman wanted on warrants was charged with arson Tuesday after it was reported she started a small fire inside the Acadia Hospital in Bangor.

The fire consisted of a small amount of trash ignited inside a bathroom on the second floor and was put out before the Bangor Fire Department arrived, reported Assistant Fire Chief Vance Trip.

The incident was reviewed and Doreen Eversole, a patient at the hospital, was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center for a psychological evaluation, according to a state fire investigator. After she was released she was arrested on the warrant for failure to appear in court on traffic violations and also charged with arson, said Sgt. Stewart Jacobs of the state Fire Marshal’s Office.

A 24-year-old woman told Bangor police that her husband assaulted her recently when she was trying to leave him. She also said that her husband threatened to kill her.

The woman told Detective Joel Nadeau on Monday that a week earlier she had her bag packed and was walking down the stairs when her husband, Richard Rossignol, 28, pushed her, causing her to fall down the stairs. She showed Nadeau the abrasions on her back that resulted from the fall.

The woman had called her brother to come pick her up and she called him again to make sure he was coming, only to have Rossignol rip the phone off the wall, according to the police report. Rossignol also called the new place where she was staying and told her he was coming over there to kill her, according to the police report. He ended that telephone conversation with, “you’re all done.”

Nadeau found Rossignol at his Third Street apartment Tuesday and Rossignol denied any knowledge of his wife’s claims. Nadeau arrested Rossignol, who was out on bail at the time of his arrest, and also charged him with violation of bail conditions.

A Waterville doctor was arrested and charged with drunken driving Monday night.

Dr. Mark Varnum, 39, was pulled over on Sunset Avenue after operating erratically, weaving in and out of traffic lanes, and travelling at 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone, Officer Dan Herrick of the Bangor Police Department said.

Varnum admitted to having “four beers” shortly before the time he was pulled over at 11:24 p.m. and was on his way to Dexter after coming from Waterville, police reported.

After failing field sobriety tests, Varnum was given an Intoxilyzer test and was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.14 percent, or nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

An Orrington woman learned that speeding is no laughing matter Monday night.

Amy McGraw, 18, was charged with speeding at 7:50 p.m. after police spotted the woman travelling at 57 miles per hour in a 25 miles per hour zone on Maine Street, Bangor police Officer James Dearing said.

McGraw was “laughing and yelling” with nearby friends after the officer had pulled her over, until she was told how fast she going and what the speed limit was, Dearing said.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Doug Kesseli and Derek Breton