Man arrested during 2-apartment break-in

Prohibited from being within 100 feet of 28 Sixth St. in Bangor after his arrest in April for allegedly assaulting his wife, Douglas Smilie was found inside the building early Friday morning.

According to police who were called to the two-apartment building for a report of a break-in, Smilie got in by smashing a bathroom window and crawling inside.

Once inside his wife’s apartment, Smilie broke into the neighbor’s residence, forcing his way through a door in the basement the two apartments share, Officer Jeff Small reported.

The police could see him inside, including an appearance he made by an open window.

Detective Dennis Lally reported seeing Smilie come out onto a deck, only to rush back inside when the detective confronted him and ordered him to put his hands in the air.

Smilie came out about a minute later with his hands in the air, Lally said.

Smilie was charged with violation of conditions of release, criminal trespass and criminal mischief.

As officials were clearing the scene of an accident involving alcohol on Union Street Wednesday afternoon that hospitalized one woman, police were alerted to a drunken driver when he squealed his tires while pulling from Columbia Street onto Union Street, yards from the scene of the accident.

James Lagassie, 49, failed a field sobriety test and was taken to Penobscot County Jail while his vehicle was towed away, Bangor police Officer Brent Beaulieu said. An Intoxilyzer test found Lagassie’s blood alcohol level to be 0.11 percent.

The legal limit for adults to be driving in Maine is 0.08 percent.

Lagassie told police he had just left work and had had 11/2 beers, Beaulieu said. Lagassie was charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants. He was released on personal recognizance bail Wednesday night and is scheduled to appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on July 25.

A transient man, released from a Connecticut prison Tuesday after serving a sentence for forgery, was arrested by Bangor police officers just after midnight Wednesday on a warrant for forgery-theft by deception, officials said.

Mitchell Fernandez had arrived in Bangor at around 10 p.m. Tuesday and had returned to a Bangor apartment on Cedar Street that used to be a friend’s home, Bangor police Officer James Dearing said. Fernandez’s friend no longer lived there and Fernandez had prepared to sleep in the hallway when a neighbor reported a possible burglary in the apartment Fernandez was outside of.

A check on Fernandez found that he had a warrant from December 2001, Dearing said. Fernandez was released from Penobscot County Jail on personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on July 25.

A Bangor man was charged with insurance deception after police were told that his claims of injury were false, officials said.

Mark Allen Wood, 41, was charged with the crime on June 6 after officials learned from a friend of his that Wood had put cigarette ashes on his face to create fake bruises and then pressed his own lip against his teeth to cause bleeding, Detective Paul Colley of the Bangor Police Department said. Wood had claimed that he had been injured after falling while on the property of Rite Aid at 224 Union St. on March 16.

The friend told police that Wood had not fallen at all and that Wood had had him take pictures of the alleged injuries to use to get money from Rite Aid, Colley said. Wood will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on July 12.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Derek Breton and Doug Kesseli