A transient man denied assaulting his estranged wife early Thursday morning but admitted to preventing her from calling police and to blocking the door to stop her from leaving her apartment.

The woman eventually escaped her Main Street apartment and went to the police station where she spoke to officers outside. She told Officer Will Sheehan and Sgt. Scott Scripture that Daryl Szady had come to her apartment because he had no place to live. He wouldn’t leave and wouldn’t let her leave either, blocking the door with his body. When she went to call the police, he took the phone from her and hid it, according to the police.

Szady denied touching his estranged wife, but she claimed that he pushed her in the bathroom and she fell, striking her back on something. She had scrapes on her back, Scripture reported.

As the police officers were speaking to the woman, she spotted Szady walking to his car he had parked in the municipal lot near the police station. She pointed him out to the police, who, after hearing his side of the story, arrested him on charges of domestic assault and obstructing the report of a crime or injury.

An Orono woman who called police to report that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend ended up in custody early Thursday morning after it was determined she was the aggressor in the dispute.

Kimberlee Sheehan, 30, and her boyfriend returned home to 6A Talmar Wood late Wednesday night after visiting with friends and drinking at a Brewer bar, according to police. Sheehan wanted to continue drinking, but her boyfriend wanted her to stop and began dumping beer down the sink, said Officer Will Sheehan, no relation to the woman.

What happened next was in dispute, with the boyfriend claiming that Sheehan became enraged and jumped on his back and began striking him on the head, Officer Sheehan said. The woman claimed she had been assaulted by her boyfriend and she was the one who called police, shortly after midnight Thursday morning.

Police spoke with the baby sitter and two of the five children at the home, and they too confirmed that Sheehan had been the aggressor, said Sgt. Scott Scripture. Kimberlee Sheehan was arrested and charged with domestic assault.

Scripture helped some of the children get their shoes on as they prepared to leave with the boyfriend by cab to his residence in Milford.

Old Town police stopped a Massachusetts man for speeding and subsequently charged him with drug- and alcohol-related offenses Thursday afternoon.

Officer Chris Hashey said he was behind a Chevrolet Camaro with Massachusetts plates on Stillwater Avenue by the Lawndale Cemetery. The radar in the cruiser and his speedometer indicated that the car ahead was traveling 40 mph in a 25 mph zone; Hashey pulled the car over.

The only person in the car was 20-year-old David Thoreau Ricker who, when asked for his license and registration, opened the center console, then quickly shut it. In the brief time that the console was open, Hashey said, he could see a small, rolled-up plastic bag, consistent with how marijuana is stored.

Ricker was acting very nervous and when asked what the bag was, claimed it was “nothing,” Hashey said. Hashey told Ricker to hand him the marijuana and the motorist complied. Inside the bag was a small amount of marijuana and some seeds. Searching the car, Hashey found a marijuana pipe and a bottle of vodka.

Richer was summoned on charges of possession of a usable amount of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and illegal transportation of liquor by a minor.

— Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli