Woman reports assault by ex-boyfriend

A Bangor woman awoke early Wednesday morning to find that her ex-boyfriend had entered her home with a key and cupped his hands over her mouth.

The 30-year-old woman also told police that William Travis Jr., 37, pulled her hair, forcing her to her feet, then grabbed her neck and shouted at her. She said she began fighting back, punching Travis and scratching his face until he let go. She didn’t have a phone, and Travis wouldn’t allow her to leave her trailer home at 21B Birch Hill Estates, she told Officer Edward A. Mercier.

Travis continued to yell at her and threatened to kill her, according to the police report.

The woman said her 6-year-old daughter was in the same room and had been frightened by what was going on around her. The woman told Mercier she waited until her intoxicated former boyfriend passed out about 9:45 a.m. – about eight hours after the ordeal began – before leaving and heading to the police station.

Travis left the home before the police arrived, although he was found later and questioned. He had scratch marks on both sides of his face and a bruise below his right eye, which he said came from his former girlfriend, Mercier said.

He said he grabbed her hair to defend himself and denied choking her.

Travis was arrested and charged with domestic assault, terrorizing, criminal threatening and violation of conditions of release.

Wanted in connection with an assault on her partner, a 34-year-old woman was taken into custody Wednesday night after police found her hiding underneath the bumper of a car parked less than 100 yards from the house where the assault took place.

Amanda Burns was charged with domestic assault after the incident at 63 Merrimac St. where police were called at 7:20 p.m. for a report of a domestic assault in progress.

Officers Rob Angelo and Robert Hutchings were let inside the home by a neighbor, but on searching the first and second floors they found no one.

They heard yelling outside and learned Burns had fled out the back yard and toward a park.

Angelo also was told by the 29-year-old partner that she was in the process of moving out and that an argument over possessions turned physical. The partner said Burns dumped out some of the things she had packed and threw some Tupperware at her. When she tried to stop Burns, the partner said, Burns punched her in the face and assaulted a friend who tried to intervene.

As Angelo was talking to the women, a resident of neighboring Newbury Street reported seeing suspicious movement in the back yard. Searching the area, Hutchings found Burns tucked underneath the bumper of a parked car.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli