Police seek tire-slashing vandals Nearly 20 cars damaged in Main Street parking lots Saturday night

Bangor police were searching for details Sunday after vandals slashed the tires and broke off the side-view mirrors of nearly 20 cars in the parking lots of Main Street Inn and Holiday Inn on Main Street, officials said.

Damage to the cars were still being tallied, but could run $1,000 to $5,000, Bangor police Lt. David Kane said. The cars were damaged between 11 p.m. Friday and 5:30 a.m. Saturday.

One or two tires were slashed on each of the damaged cars, Kane said.

Meanwhile, two U-Haul trucks were damaged sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning when the front driver’s side tires were slashed, Bangor Police Officer Butch Moor said. The rental trucks had been parked on May Street, about a mile from where the motel lot vandalism occurred.

Damage to the trucks was estimated at $300.

Anyone who saw suspicious activity in either area or anyone with information regarding vandalism should call the Bangor Police Department at 947-7384.

Vandals caused more than $1,500 in damage to a car in Argyle Township sometime between Friday night and Sunday morning after breaking out all six windows, smashing out the headlights and taillights, and jumping on the roof, police said.

The red 1989 Dodge Omni had been parked at 2919 Edinburg Road when owners noticed the damage Sunday morning, Trooper Thomas Fisk said.

Bangor police arrested a Veazie man Saturday night after he refused to come down from a second-floor fire escape at 67 Court St. and broke through the window of an apartment in the building, officials said.

Bangor police Officers Steve Jordan and Wade Betters arrested Michael Brown, 28, as he was standing in the living room of the apartment that he had broken into, Jordan said. The man had been pounding on the window of the apartment for several minutes before police arrived, the apartment resident told police.

Police repeatedly asked the man to come down from the fire escape before he broke the window and went inside, Jordan said.

A test found Brown’s blood-alcohol level to be 0.24 percent, Jordan said. Brown was charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief and was released on his own recognizance Sunday morning.

Police in Hampden were looking Sunday for the vehicle that struck five mailboxes on Main Road South on Saturday night, officials said.

A woman reported hearing a loud bang outside her house around 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The next morning, she found that her mailbox had been hit by a vehicle, Hampden police Sgt. Dan Stewart said.

The vehicle, believed to be a four-wheel drive, apparently sustained significant damage to its front end after police found numerous pieces of the vehicle near the mailboxes.

Damage was estimated at $100.

An argument with his girlfriend ended with a Bangor man facing charges of domestic assault, criminal threatening, criminal mischief, possession of a usable amount of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said.

Michael Hazelton, 39, had been arguing with his girlfriend at their 99 Moosehead Blvd. home when he allegedly spit in her face, struck her, then left, Bangor police Officer Shawn Green said. After leaving, Hazelton threw a baseball-sized rock at the woman’s car, causing $500 in damage, police said.

Officers Steve Jordan and Wade Betters found the man shortly thereafter at 438 Finson Road, Jordan said. Police also found a small amount of marijuana in a plastic bag and a ceramic marijuana pipe after they searched Hazelton.

Hazelton was released from Penobscot County Jail on his own recognizance.

Police were looking Sunday for the person who took a $1,200 mountain bike from the second floor of an Old Town home, officials said.

The Trek mountain bike had been in a room in the Springer Street home when someone stole it between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning while the owner was away, Old Town police Sgt. Mike Hashey said. The door to the home had been left unlocked.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton