A 16-year-old from Bangor told police that while he was sitting on a couch smoking a cigarette Monday night someone assaulted him, punching him into unconsciousness.

Bangor police spoke to the teen-ager in the Eastern Maine Medical Center Emergency Room where he was on a stretcher, with injuries to his right ear and nose, reported Officer Robert Hutchings.

The teen-ager said that while he was at an Essex Street apartment, Jonathan Mitchell, 21, walked past him and “flipped out.” Mitchell repeatedly punched the teen-ager, who told Hutchings he blacked out.

A friend also at the apartment confirmed the story, telling Hutchings that he interceded, placing Mitchell in a headlock and rolling him off the teen-ager.

Mitchell admitted to punching the 16-year-old but claimed it came after the teen-ager began pushing him around. Mitchell was charged with assault and violation of bail conditions.

A Bangor woman said she was bringing some things to her homeless boyfriend Monday when he became abusive and struck her.

The 50-year-old woman came to the Bangor Police Department Monday night to report the incident, and Officer James Dearing noted that her right cheek was red and swollen.

The woman said that she visited boyfriend Peter Wing – who lives along the riverbank behind the Penobscot Plaza – throughout the day and that he had been threatening her with his fists. He then became very upset and struck her on the side of the face, she said.

Several police officers went to the riverbank and found Wing and another man “both at home” in a cardboard refrigerator box, according to the police report.

The police officers pulled the 6-foot-3 Wing out of the box and arrested him without giving him a chance to make a statement, as Dearing noted that Wing was intoxicated and had been violent with police in the past.

The other man initially told police that he had seen Wing and the girlfriend wrestling, but later said he had seen Wing slap her, Dearing reported. Wing was charged with domestic assault.

A Kenduskeag man who was prohibited as part of bail conditions from drinking and from leaving his home without permission was found by police inside a Bangor restaurant and bar Sunday. His bar bill and later his blood alcohol content indicated he had been drinking.

A brief struggle ensued when police went to arrest Jeffery P. Sands, 34, inside the Ruby Tuesday Restaurant and Bar at the Bangor Mall. In addition to violating conditions of release, Sands was charged with refusing to submit to arrest.

Bangor police Officer Jason McAmbley was called to Ruby Tuesday by Sands’ former wife, who said Sands had been harassing her and that he could be found at the restaurant’s bar.

Sands was the only one sitting at the bar; he followed the officer out to the hallway, where he admitted he probably was in violation of his bail by being in a bar drinking, according to McAmbley.

Sands struggled with the officer after a handcuff was placed on his left arm, the officer said. McAmbley applied pressure to Sands’ arms and hand and used the threat of pepper spray to get Sands under control and fully in handcuffs, according to the report.

McAmbley left Ruby Tuesday with Sands, his backpack and a receipt for $20.06 in drinks. Sands’ blood alcohol content registered 0.15 percent on the Intoxilyzer test.

Called to the Pickering Square Park on Monday afternoon for a report of a disorderly man, Bangor police officers confronted a transient who was yelling at and kicking a park bench.

The man also was jumping into the air and landing his foot on the bench, apparently directing his anger at someone who wasn’t there, according to Officer Erik Tall, who was called to the park about 1:15 p.m.

The man, identified as Gerald Soctomah, spoke to officers Tall and Butch Moore. Tall said Soctomah’s fists were clenched, a stance that made Tall think Soctomah was considering throwing a punch at him. Soctomah was given criminal trespass and disorderly conduct warnings and he left, throwing punches into the air as he went.

Tall said that when he returned to the park shortly before 3 p.m. he saw Soctomah sitting by the bus station and arrested him on a criminal trespass charge.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli