Man grabs carton of cigarettes, flees

Pressed to pay for the two cartons of cigarettes he was holding, 25-year-old Jesse J. Cyr put one carton down on the counter at the Bangor Irving Mainway store and told the employee “I guess I better run,” before fleeing the store with the other carton Sunday.

The assistant store manager told Bangor police Officer Paul Colley that she recognized Cyr and that shortly after he left the Main Street store he headed for Bass Park. Cyr was a passenger in a gold Honda Accord. The car had a Rhode Island license plate.

Colley also knew Cyr and went to the man’s Dillingham Street home where he found Cyr and two men standing out front. When Cyr saw him, he threw a carton of cigarettes under the Accord, parked in the driveway, Colley reported. It had Rhode Island license plates.

Colley had Cyr get the cigarettes and they matched the brand stolen from the store, except that one pack was missing. Patting Cyr down, Colley found a knife and a small bag of marijuana in his pockets, according to the police report. The officer summoned Cyr on charges of theft and possession of a usable amount of marijuana.

A Greenbush man, charged with criminal speeding and operating a vehicle after suspension of his license, has also been charged with not having his prescribed medication in its proper container.

Norman Meservey had been pulled over by Old Town police after he was caught on radar Friday afternoon driving 65 mph in a 35-mph zone while traveling east on Route 116. A search of the 1991 Ford Ranger he was driving yielded a cigarette pack with six tablets of OxyContin inside, Old Town police Officer Seth Burnes said. Meservey was charged with violating the Authorized Possession by Individuals statute in Title 22, section 2383-B of Maine Criminal Statutes, which states that someone who had been prescribed a drug can possess the medication “only in the container in which it was delivered by the person selling or dispensing the drug or substance.”

Meservey was taken to Penobscot County Jail, then released on personal recognizance bail. He will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Dec. 2.

It was the sound of a window air conditioner being moved followed shortly by footsteps on the inside steps that caught the attention of a Bangor woman and her male companion late Thursday night. Then the woman’s estranged husband burst in, shoved the woman aside and pummeled the other man, she told police.

All three people were by the home’s exterior door when Bangor police arrived shortly before 11 p.m. One of the two men had blood dripping from the bridge of his nose.

The other man, the woman’s estranged husband, 34-year-old Luke Smith, walked off the house steps and told Bangor police Officer Shawn Green, “I did it,” and he then put out his hands to be handcuffed. Green handcuffed him but told the man that he was just being detained, not arrested, although the 6-foot-2-inch man insisted, “I want to be arrested,” according to the police report.

After Smith was secured in the cruiser, his estranged wife and the other man told Green what had happened. They had been in the bedroom when they heard the air conditioner being moved and minutes later they heard footsteps on the inside stairs.

Smith pushed his way into the room, shoving his estranged wife aside in order to get to the other man, who later told police that Smith hit him about 10 times. The estranged wife tried to intercede and the altercation moved down the stairs, where the woman called police, only to have Smith grab the phone and hit the other man with it.

During the altercation, Smith told the man, “You’re gonna die,” according to the police report. He was charged with domestic assault and assault and criminal threatening.

An argument escalated into violence last week as a Bangor man chased his girlfriend down the road and allegedly choked her after he caught her in a parking lot.

The 26-year-old Somerset Street woman told Bangor police Officer Chad Foley that she lost consciousness briefly and that she remembered being on the ground and that the boyfriend, Shannon Odom, 27, was walking away. A resident of Pine Street, hearing the woman’s screams, took her to the 7-Eleven on State Street, where they called police.

Odom left before police arrived at the Somerset home, but he called the woman while Foley was interviewing her. Odom refused to talk to Foley, but the girlfriend said he had asked her to change her story, then made an ominous comment that if he stepped a foot in jail, “you know what’s gonna happen,” according to the police report. He also said he’d call back in 10 minutes.

The second call came about midnight, 14 minutes after the first and this time from the Hampton Inn in Bangor. Odom had called the first time from the Veazie Variety store. When the woman hung up the second time, she was even more distraught, crying uncontrollably. When she calmed down, she said that Odom had threatened to kill her, according to Foley.

The phone rang two more times. The last time the woman could hear Odom being arrested by police who had been sent to the Hampton Inn after Odom’s second call. He was charged with domestic assault and criminal threatening.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Derek Breton and Doug Kesseli