A Bangor man faces several charges, including two counts of assault, after a reported domestic dispute on Davis Road early Thursday morning.

Bangor police were called to the apartment at 2:37 a.m., a short time after a 28-year-old woman said that Eric D. Jipson, 27, asked to stay the night and then forced his way in when she refused to let him. The woman said that Jipson pushed her and grabbed her arm but she managed to push him back and run outside, reported Officer Edward A. Mercier.

Jipson followed her outside and carried her back inside, while the woman screamed for help, which prompted a neighbor to call police. Back inside, Jipson pushed the woman into the kitchen. She said her 7-year-old son came downstairs and began hitting Jipson, who pushed the child down.

In the meantime, the woman tried to call the police, but Jipson grabbed the phone from her and ripped the cord from the wall, according to the police report. Mercier said he could see where the cord was broken and the phone was inoperable.

Jipson had fled before police arrived, but Lt. Steven Hunt found him driving a gold Jeep Cherokee near the intersection of Maine Avenue and Godfrey Boulevard and stopped the SUV on Maine Avenue by the city’s motor pool building.

Jipson didn’t have a Maine driver’s license and his Florida license was suspended, according to the police report. Jipson was charged with criminal mischief, obstructing the report of a crime, operating a motor vehicle without a license and two counts of assault.

A Brewer man stopped for speeding admitted to drinking and insisted he was intoxicated but not drunk early Thursday morning.

Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan reported that a car sped out of the parking lot of the Ramada Inn and continued to speed, traveling 55 to 57 mph in a 40 mph zone headed down Interstate 395. With some construction under way, barrels directed traffic away from the right lane, which was closed, but Jordan said the car continued in the right lane, nearly hitting the barrels before moving into the left lane.

Stopped on Interstate 395 in Brewer, driver Brian F. Altvater, 26, admitted to drinking, but claimed he was the most sober of all the people in the car. He told Jordan that he had had two shots of whiskey, three beers and part of someone else’s Long Island ice tea. Altvater also admitted he was intoxicated but claimed he wasn’t drunk.

Jordan reported that he could smell alcohol coming from Altvater and that the man’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot. Altvater initially wanted to bypass field sobriety tests and go straight to the Intoxilyzer test, but ultimately agreed to do the walk-and-turn test, which he performed improperly, according to the report.

The Intoxilyzer test registered Altvater’s blood alcohol content at 0.15 percent or nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent. He was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli