Assault charge filed after fracas in Bangor

BANGOR – Early Fourth of July festivities apparently got out of hand Thursday morning in the parking lot of a Broad Street bar and restaurant, leaving one man injured and another charged with assault.

Officer Wade Betters was on routine patrol about 1 a.m. when he noticed two men in the City Slickers parking lot who appeared to be wrestling. When he got out of his cruiser, Betters observed that one man had the other in a headlock. Betters then saw the suspect jam the other man’s head into a parked car, his report stated.

The officer ordered the two men to stop, then grabbed and handcuffed Darren D. Stover, 23, of Bangor, who had had Garth Danielson, 21, of Bangor, in the headlock. While Betters was interviewing the two men, Daniel R. Buck, 28, of Bangor angrily told Betters that Stover had kicked Buck in the face after pushing him to the ground.

According to the report, Buck had a fresh abrasion on the left side of his face and bleeding cuts. Betters called an ambulance for Buck.

The fight allegedly started when Buck and Danielson and their wives tried to leave in a taxi. Witnesses told Betters that Stover began taunting the two men as they got into the cab.

Stover was summoned for assault and is scheduled to appear in Bangor District Court on Aug. 12.