N.H. man charged in Bangor knife attack freed on bail

BANGOR – A New Hampshire man was released from the Penobscot County Jail on Tuesday after being arrested during Memorial Day weekend for allegedly attacking a Searsport man with a knife, officials said.

Michael Herring, 20, of Dover, N.H., was arrested about 3 a.m. Saturday and charged with aggravated assault after allegedly cutting Everett Dorr, 26, with a 2- to 3-inch-long kitchen knife during a disagreement in a parking lot across from 1465 Union St. four hours earlier, Lt. Tim Reid of the Bangor Police Department’s detectives division said Tuesday.

The fight began when friends of a female student at Maine Job Corps in Bangor confronted Herring, a fellow Job Corps student, with whom she had recently been arguing.

“Dorr is the brother to a kid married to a girl at Job Corps,” Reid said. “Some Job Corps people had been harassing her.”

Dorr, along with three other people, met with Herring and one of his friends in the Union Street parking lot, Reid said. Dorr maintains he was physically assaulted by Herring. Herring, on the other hand, said he cut Dorr with a knife in self-defense when Dorr and two others attacked him.

Dorr told police he had wanted to talk with Herring to straighten out the situation, Reid said.

“Dorr sustained several cuts inflicted by a small knife,” Reid said. Police later found a piece of the handle of the knife in the parking lot. The blade, however, had not been found as of Tuesday afternoon.

When the group heard that police were coming they left the scene, Reid said. Dorr returned to Searsport, but went to Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast when he didn’t stop bleeding. He was treated there and then released.

Officials at the hospital notified the Belfast Police Department who notified Bangor officials, Reid said. Herring was arrested Saturday morning on the Maine Job Corps campus on Union Street.

Herring was released from Penobscot County Jail on a personal recognizance bail at 3 p.m. Tuesday, jail officials said. He is scheduled to appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on July 11.