A car accident on Wilson Street in Brewer that injured three people Sunday night began with a cigarette, police said.

A passenger in the car told police the driver of the vehicle, 36-year-old Jackie Smith of Brewer, had ash fall off her cigarette and she was looking down to find it when her car struck a telephone pole head-on near 171 Wilson St., Brewer police Officer Anthony Pinette said. Smith was wearing her seat belt.

Paulette Lincoln, 54, of Las Vegas was riding unbuckled in the front passenger seat and her head struck the windshield, while her 11-year-old son was riding in the back seat and was buckled, Pinette said. All three complained of neck and back pain and were taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and were still at the hospital Sunday night.

A car traveling behind Smith’s white 1989 Buick Park Avenue car said the vehicle was traveling about 25 mph and the driver never hit the brakes, Pinette said.

Orono police were still looking for information after 330 pills of four different drugs, a portable CD player and two textbooks were taken from a car in Talmar Wood in Orono Saturday afternoon, officials said.

A value for the prescription drugs was not available, but the truck they were in had been left unlocked by the owner, Orono police Officer Scott Wilcox said. The CD player was valued at $50 and a value for the textbooks, “Juvenile Delinquents” and “Principles of Civil Liability,” was not available.

Orono police held a Bangor man at gunpoint shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday after the man tried to break into a home on Harrison Avenue because he thought the home belonged to a friend, officials said.

Benjamin Briggs, 18, was arrested and charged with illegal possession of alcohol by consumption, Orono police Officer Scott Wilcox said. Briggs had opened the side storm door to 8 Harrison Ave. and was trying to break through the main door to the home when police arrived.

Briggs was extremely disoriented and thought the home belonged to friends of his who were not letting him in, the officer said.

A breathalyzer test found Briggs’ blood alcohol level to be 0.18 percent, Wilcox said. He was released into the custody of his parents. No damage was done to the home.

A Brewer man was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and two counts of criminal mischief after a phone argument spilled over into a confrontation with family members shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday.

Joshua Hoover, 21, had been on the phone and arguing when an aunt who thought he was being too loud locked him outside, Brewer police Cpl. Levi Sewall said. Hoover then allegedly kicked in the door and hit his aunt several times with the phone before throwing the phone at her.

The phone missed the aunt and struck his 8-year-old cousin, Sewall said. The girl was not injured.

Hoover suffered cuts to his hand; police believe the cuts came from him striking a mirror on his uncle’s truck while outside the home, Sewall said. Hoover also allegedly knocked over a stereo in the home.

Hoover was still being held at the Penobscot County Jail Sunday for violating his probation, officials said.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton