December 23, 2024
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3 charged with assault outside Bangor bar

Three men were charged with aggravated assault Saturday afternoon after a doctor reported that a man the three allegedly had attacked just before 2 a.m. in Old Town would need numerous surgeries to repair his right eye and would suffer permanent damage to his retina, officials said.

Old Town police Officer Seth Bear said William Stewart, 35, and Bruce Boyington, 23, both of Milford, and Jared Foster, 23, of Old Town beat a Bangor man in front of Riverfront Pub, 15 N. Water St., early Saturday. The 27-year-old man was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for treatment.

Police found Foster, who had left the scene, shortly after the fight had ended and charged him with assault. They found all three men later that afternoon and charged them all with aggravated assault after the doctor’s report, Bear said.

All three men posted cash bail by Saturday night – Stewart, $350, Boyington, $1,000, and Foster, $350 – and will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on July 3.

Police on Sunday night were investigating an act of vandalism at the Reeds Brook Middle School in Hampden after someone shot the front of the building nearly a dozen times with a paintball gun, officials said.

The perpetrator had shot the building with pink-colored paintballs between 8 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday, Sgt. Dan Stewart of the Hampden Police Department said. Windows in the building were shot, but did not break.

Other than paint spots on the building, no other damage was reported, Stewart said.

A Bangor man’s truck was stolen for a couple of hours Sunday before police found it outside an area movie theater, police said.

The truck, a 1988 Chevy S-10 pickup, was stolen from Advance Auto Parts, 753 Stillwater Ave., in Bangor just after 2 p.m. Sunday, Bangor police Officer Jason Macambley said. The man had left the keys in the ignition and the doors unlocked while he had parked at the auto parts store.

The truck was found a couple of hours later in the parking lot of Hoyts Cinema, 557 Stillwater Ave., Macambley said. The truck’s stereo was the only item reported missing.

Witnesses described the thief of the vehicle as a young, thin Caucasian male, about age 18, with a white T-shirt and dark bushy hair.

An Old Town man was charged with possession of a usable amount of marijuana Saturday evening after neighbors reported seeing people smoking in front of an apartment, officials said.

Stephen Thompson, 34, admitted that he had been smoking marijuana in Apt. 52 of the Lincoln Green Apartments on Shelter Lane, Old Town police Officer Chris Hashey said. Thompson claimed he had a prescription for medicinal marijuana, but conceded that what he had on him was “home grown.”

After pursuing an Old Town woman by car, confronting her in a parking lot and allegedly attacking her and breaking the driver’s side mirror off the car, a 17-year-old Old Town girl was charged with assault and criminal mischief, officials said.

The juvenile hit the 19-year-old woman, then tore off the mirror from the woman’s 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix, Old Town police Officer Seth Bear said. The woman had pulled into a parking lot across from the Holy Family Parish Church, 262 S. Main St., to get off the road and away from the girl following her.

An Old Town woman was charged with domestic assault Saturday night after allegedly slapping her son across the face while standing in front of their Pembroke Pines apartment on Pembroke Drive, police said.

Maureen Hammond, 39, had slapped her 17-year-old son across the face, causing a scratch across his face, during an argument between the two, Old Town police Officer Seth Bear said.

An argument with his live-in girlfriend over where she works ended with a Bangor man in the Penobscot County Jail on April 29, charged with three crimes, officials said.

Michael W. Lane, 23, was charged with domestic assault, criminal restraint and obstructing the report of a crime, Bangor police Officer Douglas Moore said.

The two had been arguing about the 19-year-old woman’s workplace when Lane allegedly refused to let the woman out of the house by standing in the doorway.

When the woman tried to call her mother, Lane allegedly hung up the phone, then hung it up twice more when she tried to call 911, Moore said. After a final attempt to call 911, Lane reportedly shoved the woman down onto the couple’s couch, struck her and then left.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton

Correction: An incident reported in Monday’s “From Police Files” involving Michael W. Lane, 23, of Bangor contained incorrect information. Lane did not strike his 19-year-old girlfriend. He also did not leave the scene of the incident until escorted by police. Although he initially was charged with domestic assault and obstructing the report of a crime, those charges were dropped. He pleaded guilty Thursday to disorderly conduct. The incorrect information that appeared in the paper stemmed from an editing error.

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