Bangor man arrested after domestic incident

Less than 40 minutes after Bangor police removed John Toolin from his former girlfriend’s home Monday night, officers were called back to the Sunset Avenue residence. Toolin had returned, forced his way in and assaulted the woman, according to police.

Bangor police officers first were called to the home at 10:46 p.m. and found Toolin sitting on a chair in the living room drinking a beer. At the request of his former girlfriend, Toolin was told to leave. But Officer Shawn Green reported that at 11:25 p.m. he was sent back to the residence.

The former girlfriend said Toolin had forced his way back into her home and told her, “You’re not going to call the cops on me again; next time you won’t be alive to call anyone,” according to the police report. The woman also said Toolin told her he “knows people” who would “take care of her.”

Toolin grabbed the portable phone from her hands, removed the battery and threw it across the room before grabbing his former girlfriend by the neck and shoving her to the floor, Green reported.

She said she managed to scratch his face as he was grabbing her throat.

Escaping him, the woman ran to a neighbor’s home where she managed to get inside the doorway and ask the neighbor to call the police. Toolin allegedly then came up behind her and pulled her out of the home. He left, but police found him in the back yard where he was arrested and charged with terrorizing, domestic assault, obstructing the report of a crime, criminal trespass, burglary and violation of conditions of release.

A motorist whose car struck a tree and rolled over on Drummond Street hill in Bangor on Tuesday afternoon was intoxicated, according to police.

Shawn Snell, 33, was still stuck inside the upside-down car when Bangor police Officer Allen Hayden arrived to investigate the accident that occurred about 4:40 p.m. Despite the car being on its roof, none of its windows was broken and Snell had given a “thumbs-up” sign to a motorist who stopped before police arrived and asked if Snell was OK.

A resident reported seeing the car go off the road and strike a tree before rolling over.

Snell was extricated by a Bangor ambulance crew that noticed the smell of alcohol on Snell’s breath. Officer Edward A. Mercier rode in the ambulance with Snell, reporting that Snell fought with the ambulance paramedics, pulling off straps and neck brace and pushing them away as they tried to check his vital signals.

Snell’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot and his speech slurred and he admitted to drinking earlier, according to police. A blood sample was taken at Eastern Maine Medical Center, where Snell was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and for being a habitual offender.

A 20-year-old Bangor man who doesn’t have a driver’s license skidded past a Bangor police officer Monday night, which led to a brief chase that ended when one of the tires on the man’s car went flat.

Nathan A. Turner was charged with eluding a police officer and operating a motor vehicle without a license.

Officer Edward A. Mercier reported that while he was stopped on Union Street about 11:30 p.m., a small red car skidded onto Union Street from Seventeenth Street, passing the police officer.

Turner accelerated, skidding as he turned left onto the northbound ramp of Interstate 95, reported Mercier. Two cars behind the errant motorist, Mercier closed the gap after turning on the cruiser’s blue lights and siren, but he reported that the car continued to speed up.

Turner showed no signs of giving up and turned onto Ohio Street instead of heading up the interstate. He didn’t stop at the stop sign at Ohio Street, but quickly found the going difficult when his right front tire blew. Rubber from the tires burned, sending up smoke, yet Turner continued to try to accelerate. He lost control of the car and was forced to the right side of the road, about 50 yards from the I-95 northbound exit ramp.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli