41-year-old Hampden woman arrested in assault on boyfriend

Hampden police arrested a local woman early Wednesday morning after she hit her live-in boyfriend in the head with a milk crate and hurled a number of household items at him, police said.

Maria Demaertelaere, 41, was arrested for assault and transported to Penobscot County Jail.

Police officials responded to Demaertelaere’s apartment at 114 Main Road South around 1 a.m. after a neighbor reported a commotion, according to Hampden police Officer Joseph Burke.

Sgt. Scott Webber, Officer Shawn Devine and Burke arrived to find the woman intoxicated and upset at her ex-husband, who she had visited earlier in the day. Demaertelaere had thrown her boyfriend’s television on the floor a number of times, Burke said. She also had thrown a fan, clock, bedding and milk crate at him – the latter of which she used to hit him in the face, Burke said. Her boyfriend was holding a cold washcloth to his left eye, which was red and swollen. He refused treatment, Burke said.

As she was being led out of the residence, Demaertelaere kicked her boyfriend in the leg and said, “Thanks a lot,” Burke said.

Demaertelaere’s court date is March 7.

Dangerous speed and icy roads caused a Clifton woman to crash into a plow truck Tuesday night on Route 16 in Alton.

Holly Morrison, 23, was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for complaints of neck pain. Neither the plow truck driver nor Morrison’s 3-year-old child, who was in the back in a child restraint seat, were injured.

Morrison was driving south on Route 16 when she lost control of her vehicle and spun out of control, according to Trooper Michael Johnston of the Maine State Police. Morrison’s 1992 Chevrolet station wagon crossed into the opposite lane and struck a Maine Department of Transportation plow truck, which was headed north, Johnston said.

Morrison struck the driver’s side tire of the plow truck before sliding into a snowbank. The front end of Morrison’s vehicle was totaled, while the plow truck only had paint scuffs on the tire, according to Johnston.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Anthony Saucier and Aimee Dolloff