Bangor man charged in police assault

A Bangor man remained in Penobscot County Jail on Tuesday night, a day after he allegedly violated his bail conditions, assaulted a police officer and refused to submit to arrest.

Barry K. Walker, 45, had been released from jail after being arrested for domestic assault Monday afternoon and was escorted by police to retrieve some personal items from his Valley View Lane home just after 6 that night, Bangor police Officer James Dearing said. Before arriving at his home, Walker appeared calm and quoted Bible passages to Dearing, but he became agitated when he arrived and found his car missing.

Walker searched the home, but instead of gathering his personal items, he grabbed the title for his car and said he wanted to report the car stolen, Dearing said. The officer explained that his wife had a right to use the car and Walker then began calling people in an attempt to find her.

The officer told Walker to put down the phone and Walker shoved the officer’s hand and eventually shoved the officer when Dearing attempted to take the phone from him, the officer said. Dearing sprayed Walker with pepper spray when he began to resist arrest and waited for backup when Walker got away and ran upstairs.

When Walker came back downstairs he ran outside the home and challenged Dearing to fight, the officer said. Walker continued to resist orders to submit to arrest and Dearing sprayed him with pepper spray several more times with no results before Dearing struck the back of Walker’s left leg with his baton. After a brief struggle Walker was placed under arrest and taken to Penobscot County Jail.

A Bangor man was summoned for criminal speeding after allegedly driving at nearly three times the legal speed limit on Main Street in Bangor on Monday night.

Bangor police officers Chad Foley and Kevin MacLaren had been driving north on Main Street when they noticed a truck coming toward them at high rate of speed just after 9:30 p.m., Foley said. A radar gun showed that the vehicle was traveling 73 mph in a 25 mph zone and the officers turned on their lights and attempted to pull over the vehicle.

The green 1998 GMC pickup, which police later learned was driven by Tanner L. Olivares, 23, made a right turn onto Lincoln Street, leaving a 40-foot skid mark, before pulling into a Bangor Daily News parking lot, leaving another skid mark, police said. When police arrived, Olivares had shut off his truck and was attempting to walk away, but he was ordered to get back in the truck.

Olivares told police he was hurrying to return the truck, which belonged to Bangor Roofing & Sheet Metal Co., 219 Perry Road, and apologized for trying to avoid the officers, Foley said. Olivares will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Jan. 13.

An Old Town man was summoned Saturday night after he was caught driving 81 mph in a 45 mph zone in Orono.

Matthew Chambers, 25, was charged with criminal speeding after Orono police Officer Travis Erickson, traveling south on Stillwater Avenue, saw an oncoming sedan attempting to pass some vehicles in the adjacent lane at an “extremely high rate of speed.”

Erickson’s radar showed the Eagle Vision was moving at 81 mpg, Erickson said. The car returned to its original lane and passed Erickson at 69 mph.

In his defense, Chambers told Erickson he had passed a vehicle and wanted to pass the other three vehicles in his lane.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Derek Breton and Anthony Saucier