Truck swerves to avoid cars slowed on I-95, rolls over

A pickup truck went off Interstate 95 Saturday after the driver swerved to avoid two cars that had slowed on the downward side of a small hill on the highway in Old Town.

The driver, Michael Corbin, 31, of Searsport, was uninjured although his passenger, James Dubose, 34, also of Searsport, suffered two large cuts on his right arm, reported Trooper Darren Vittum. Dubose was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and released, according to a nursing supervisor.

The 1979 Chevrolet pickup truck was considered a total loss, its roof dented in after rolling over at least once and coming to a rest on the passenger side against trees in the median. The accident occurred about 6 p.m. in the northbound lane, about a mile north of Exit 52.

The two in the pickup truck were talking to each other, crested the hill and didn’t see the two vehicles ahead that had slowed, the trooper said.

One of the other motorists told Vittum that she slowed because a car ahead of her had stopped on the interstate, straddling both lanes.

A passenger in a car stopped on a motor vehicle violation early Friday faces additional charges after police in Old Town reported finding drugs in his possession.

James Pearsall, 29, of Bangor was charged with unlawful possession of Schedule W drugs and possession of a usable amount of marijuana after Officer Chris Hashey arrested him early Friday on the warrant. Pearsall had failed to show up in court on charges of operating a motor vehicle after license suspension and possession of scheduled drugs.

Pearsall was a passenger in the blue Plymouth Voyager that Hashey said didn’t have a front registration plate when he stopped it on Stillwater Avenue near North Brunswick Street. Hashey searched Pearsall after arresting him on the warrant and reported finding a marijuana roach and part of a Vicodin pill in the man’s front jeans pocket.

Detective Michael Holmes searched the car. In a small cooler that Pearsall said was his, police found more prescription pills and in a cigarette box by the passenger seat found a small amount of marijuana, according to the report.

Pearsall and the driver, Donald Page, 33, of Bangor, were summoned for not wearing seat belts.

A Bangor man was charged Saturday morning after kicking in a neighbor’s door and hitting a woman in the face, police said.

Edward Eon told police that he had attacked the woman, a fellow resident in an apartment building on Jefferson Street, because he believed she had damaged the door to his apartment, Bangor police Officer Allen Woolley said.

Eon was taken to Penobscot County Jail and charged with assault and criminal mischief.

A transient woman was arrested and charged with assault and criminal trespass after refusing to leave a State Street home. Police said she shoved a Bangor police officer after she was escorted off the property.

Marie Brackett, 45, had been at 419 State St. when she was asked to leave, Officer Douglas Moore said. The woman refused to leave until police escorted her to the sidewalk.

On the sidewalk, Brackett shoved Moore and was arrested and taken to Penobscot County Jail.

A Bangor man was arrested shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday when police found him lying in the middle of Odlin Road.

When Officer Wade Betters arrived, Charles Sawyer, 22, got up and began walking, Betters said. Sawyer told police he did not know why he had been in the road but that he had just left an area bar.

Betters found a small bag of marijuana in Sawyer’s pocket during a search. Sawyer was wanted on two warrants for failure to pay fines, the officer said. He was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.

A Bangor man was charged with domestic assault Friday after attacking his wife, police said.

Douglas Smilie, 40, was arrested after friends convinced the woman to speak to police, Officer Robert Angelo said. The woman suffered numerous baseball-size bruises to her face, back, neck, chest, arm and hand when Smilie allegedly woke the woman and began to hit her, dragged her down a flight of stairs, hit her head on a countertop, then threw her off the family’s porch while she still was in her underwear.

The woman was able to get back into the home and remove her two children and some clothes before going to a friend’s home.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Doug Kesseli and Derek Breton