Bangor police arrest local man at motel on three warrants

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A Bangor man wanted on three warrants was arrested at a Bangor motel Monday after he refused to leave his room at checkout time, Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill said. Robert Butler, 51, had been staying at the Main Street Inn, 500 Main St., and…
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A Bangor man wanted on three warrants was arrested at a Bangor motel Monday after he refused to leave his room at checkout time, Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill said.

Robert Butler, 51, had been staying at the Main Street Inn, 500 Main St., and refused a clerk’s requests that he leave his room because it was checkout time, Morrill said. Butler allegedly refused a number of orders to leave and then shut himself in his room at about noontime Monday.

Butler was arrested without incident after police arrived.

A check of Butler’s identification by Bangor police revealed that he was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court for operating a motor vehicle after the revocation of his license, a second warrant for drunken driving and operating a motor vehicle after the revocation of his license, and a third warrant for assault, criminal threatening, and violation of conditions of release.

Butler remained in Penobscot County Jail in Bangor Monday night and will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor today.

A Bangor man was released from Penobscot County Jail on $700 cash bail hours after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend early Monday morning, Bangor officials said.

Allen M. Burr, 38, is scheduled to appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Feb. 10 on charges of domestic assault and obstructing the report of a crime.

Police were called to the couple’s Jowett Street home about 1 a.m. when the 47-year-old woman claimed that Burr had come home drunk, gone to bed, and then pulled the linens off the bed and thrown them into a corner when he was awakened by a child in the home, according to Bangor police Officer Wade Betters.

Burr then allegedly threw things around in the family’s living room. The woman claimed Burr left the home when she refused to give him his car keys. When she locked him outside, he reportedly forced open the door, grabbed her and slapped her, cutting her lip. Burr then squeezed her foot because he allegedly knew she had a broken toe.

The woman claimed that Burr took a cordless phone away from her and called a taxicab to take him to Old Town when she told him she was calling police. Burr then took the phone with him when he left, but the woman was able to call police on another phone, Betters said. Old Town police arrested Burr and took him to Penobscot County Jail in Bangor. Burr told police that he had left the house without doing any of the things he was accused of.

“Even though I had explained why he had been arrested, he still couldn’t believe it,” Betters said. “He told me he was shocked to be at PCJ because he had done nothing.”

Police took pictures of the home, of the woman’s cut lip and her injured toe as evidence.

– Compiled by NEWS

reporter Derek Breton


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