UM student freed after being locked in field house

A 20-year-old Old Town woman attempted to light fires to alert rescue personnel Friday night after she spent an hour and a half locked in a locker room at the University of Maine’s field house complex.

A student at the university, the woman was in the locker room at Wallace Pool when the custodian accidentally locked her inside when the complex closed at 7 p.m. The door had a lock similar to a deadbolt.

The custodian called campus police around 8:30 p.m. after hearing the woman yelling, according to Lt. Michael Zubik of the University of Maine Department of Public Safety.

Officer Jeff King arrived a short time later and the door was unlocked. The woman had tried unsuccessfully to escape, having made attempts to break the door down and climb out through the air ducts, Zubik said Monday in reviewing the report. In addition, King found paper towels near the door and under a fire alarm amplifier, which he believed was an attempt to set off the fire alarm.

The woman also rummaged through lockers and found some miscellaneous items that she attempted to light on fire, Zubik said, although it was ultimately her yelling that led the custodian to call the police.

The woman explained what had happened after she got out and left. She was very “distraught,” Zubik said.

The deadbolts on the Wallace Pool locker rooms were scheduled to be replaced with two-way door handles on Monday, Zubik said.

Michael G. Hurley of 25 Winter St. in Bangor was arrested Monday on charges of domestic assault for allegedly punching his 13-year-old daughter.

According to police reports, Hurley’s daughter said she was awakened by her father and accused of “eating something she was not supposed to eat.” Then, she said in the report, Hurley repeatedly poked his finger in his daughter’s face. When she removed his finger from her face, Hurley allegedly struck her in the left eye. She said Hurley then grabbed her by the neck and choked her.

When questioned about the assault, Hurley said his daughter asked him for money and when he refused, his daughter struck him in the right eye. In the report, Hurley said he “poked” his daughter in the eye after she struck him.

When police spoke to the girl, she had bruises around her left eye and on her forehead. Hurley denied choking and striking her in the forehead.

Hurley was transported to Penobscot County Jail.

Bangor police arrested Daniel E. Leduc, 21, in Pickering Square on a federal warrant issued by the U.S. Marshal’s Service.

According to police reports, Leduc, a transient, was in violation of his supervised release conditions. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail.

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A 19-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested Friday night after cocaine was found in his vehicle, Brewer police said.

Officer David Lord stopped Daniel McNutt of Norwell, Mass., at 10:09 p.m. for speeding on South Main Street in Brewer and found that he had an active arrest warrant for attempted Class B theft by extortion. Lord then searched McNutt’s Jeep Cherokee, where he found two small bags of cocaine, a marijuana pipe, a small tube called a “toot straw,” which is used for inhaling powdered drugs, a plastic pill crusher containing one pill, a package of firecrackers and a metal cylinder used to inhale gas fumes, police said. The pill was later found to contain the painkiller hydrocodone.

McNutt was placed under arrest on the warrant and charged with unlawful possession of Schedule W drugs (hydrocodone), unlawful possession of Schedule W drugs (cocaine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail.

Brewer police on Sunday night arrested Jamie Matlack, 29, of Bucksport on charges of operating after suspension, possession of a usable amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Officer John Knappe stopped Matlack on the Bangor side of the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge at 7:45 p.m. Sunday because a taillight was out on the vehicle. Knappe later found that Matlack’s right to operate a motor vehicle in Maine was under suspension and he had two active arrest warrants.

When Matlack was searched, the officer found a marijuana pipe wrapped in a bandanna and a tin containing marijuana, police said.

Matlack did not have a driver’s license and was taken to Penobscot County Jail.

Compiled by NEWS reporters Matthew LeBlanc and Anthony Saucier