Hermon man charged after nightclub incident

A Hermon man was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and refusing to submit to arrest after refusing to leave a Bangor nightclub Sunday morning.

After police broke up a fight between Philip Allen, 26, and an unidentified man, Allen refused to leave the Odlin Road parking lot, police said.

Allen returned to the parking lot and began verbally threatening patrons of the club and police, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said.

When police tried to arrest Allen, he ran toward the club’s rear parking lot. But on his way he was tripped, apparently on purpose, by the man he had been fighting with, Tall said.

Allen tried to flee again, but was tackled by Tall. After a brief struggle, Tall, Officer Daniel Herrick and Sgt. Mark Hathaway were able to handcuff Allen, Tall said.

Tall suffered minor injuries to his elbows and one knee in the struggle to subdue Allen, he said.

A man staying at a local motel was charged with assaulting a police officer after the officer noticed a marijuana pipe in the man’s room.

Police were called to the Ranger Inn on Hammond Street around 10:30 p.m. Saturday when Philip Grindle, 42, of Hampden locked himself out of his room, police reported.

Grindle attacked a maintenance worker when the employee tried to help him return to his room, Bangor police Officer Robert Angelo said.

Angelo arrived to assist Officers Steve Jordan and Brad Hanson. From his vantage point on a sidewalk, Angelo reported, he saw a marijuana pipe on a dresser in the hotel room.

According to Angelo, when he asked to whom the room belonged, Grindle grabbed Angelo by the arm and shoulder and yelled, “You get away from there.”

No charge was filed on the reported attack on the maintenance worker, but a charge was filed for the assault on the officer.

A Bangor teen-ager was charged with robbery after police said she attacked a store security guard to get away with a bottle of liquor Saturday evening.

The 17-year-old left the Shaw’s Supermarket on Main Street with a bottle of liquor hidden under her jacket, Bangor police Officer James Dearing said.

When a security officer for the store approached the girl outside, she pushed and grabbed the officer, and kicked him in the crotch, Dearing said.

She was charged with robbery, assault and possession of alcohol by a minor, Dearing said.

The girl would have been charged with theft instead of robbery, but the attack on the security officer raised the severity of the charge, police said.

A woman from Arizona was arrested Saturday morning after her road trip turned out to be a drive down railroad tracks near Hancock Street.

Bangor police arrived at the tracks after passers-by had noticed headlights pointing out over the Penobscot River and saw the car on the tracks.

Police said Denise Brundle of Phoenix apparently got stuck on the tracks. She told police she “had been driving down the road and it turned into railroad tracks,” Officer Russ Twaddell said. The woman had been in the area visiting friends in Brewer.

When asked where she was, the woman replied that she was on Robinhood Drive. She declined a field sobriety test, Twaddell said.

A test revealed Brundle’s blood alcohol content level to be 0.21 percent, police said. The legal limit in Maine is 0.08 percent.

Brundle was charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and with driving without a license.

A Florida man was charged with drunken driving after police noticed him driving the wrong way on a one-way section of State Street in Bangor on Friday night.

Chelsey Roberts, 33, of Miramar, Fla., failed several field sobriety tests and police were forced to catch him as he fell down during the tests, police reported.

After several attempts to blow air around the device without blowing into the machine, Roberts refused a breathalyzer test and was taken to Penobscot County Jail, Bangor police Officer James Dearing said.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton