Woman faces charge of domestic assault

A Bangor woman was charged with domestic assault after an exchange of words with her girlfriend became violent, police said.

Police arrested Shawna McMullen, 38, after police received a report that she had attacked her girlfriend and fled the couple’s Grove Street home shortly after 8 p.m. Friday, Bangor police Officer Chris Desmond said. When police arrived, they found McMullen present and her 24-year-old girlfriend of seven months with a bloody nose. The woman told police that she had walked into a wall.

Police learned that the couple had been arguing about the girlfriend not coming home the night before when the argument apparently turned violent, Desmond said. McMullen was released from Penobscot County Jail on personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor Sept. 9.

Police arrested an Augusta man Saturday night after they noticed his car weaving in and out of the oncoming traffic lane on Odlin Road, police said.

Police noticed the maroon 1993 Chevy Lumina driven by Joseph Roderick, 49, waited an extended period at an intersection with a blinking red light, Bangor police Officer Kevin MacLaren said. As the car drove down Odlin Road, police followed. Roderick’s car began swerving into the oncoming lane.

Roderick failed a field sobriety test and was taken to the Penobscot County Jail, where a test found his blood alcohol level to be 0.18 percent, police said. The state limit is 0.08 percent for adults. Roderick was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and with operating beyond license restrictions, which prevented him from consuming any alcohol as the result of an OUI conviction on Dec. 28, 2001. Roderick will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor Sept. 9.

A Bangor man ignored numerous warnings to leave a bar and to quit yelling obscenities at police there Sunday night, police said. He was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.

Ryan Shumaker, 21, had given the doorman at Barnaby’s, a lounge at the Ramada Inn on the Odlin Road, his identification and was allowed to go through. Shumaker then turned and gave a friend behind him his driver’s license, which the friend tried to use to get into the bar, Bangor police Officer Russ Twadell said. The doorman refused to let the friend in with Shumaker’s license, so Shumaker began to argue that his friend was old enough, but that he had forgotten his own identification at home.

The two left, then returned and tried to walk into the bar, Twadell said. At the doorman’s request, police asked them to leave, but Shumaker argued that his friend had a right to go in. Police said he began swearing at Twadell.

Eventually, Shumaker left, continuing to swear at police until he was warned he would be charged with disorderly conduct for the yelling and criminal trespass if he returned, the officer said. Shumaker left the property, but resumed his swearing and yelling once he was on a nearby property. Then he returned to the Ramada Inn parking lot and was arrested. He was released on personal recognizance bail from Penobscot County Jail. He will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor Sept. 9.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton