UM student charged with having drugs

A plow truck driver reported seeing somebody lying in the snow near a University of Maine dorm about 2:20 a.m. Sunday.

Officer Amy Nickerson found Drew Gustin, 19, a UM student who lives in Somerset Hall.

When Nickerson found pills in Gustin’s possession, he tried to run away from her, she reported.

The officer caught Gustin and arrested him for possession of a Schedule W drug.

A Milford man allegedly struck his ex-girlfriend at a Bangor club early Sunday.

Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill and Sgt. Chip Hodges were outside Barnaby’s, Odlin Road, when they heard that a man inside the club had hit a woman.

Morrill spoke to Glenn Mannisto, 45, who said that he and his ex-girlfriend had had an argument. Mannisto said that he had tried to hit her cigarette out of her mouth, but had not hit her, according to Morrill.

Morrill found the woman in a corner of the club, crying and covering her right eye with her hand.

The woman told police that she and Mannisto had gotten into an argument because she had danced with a man Mannisto didn’t like. During the argument, Mannisto hit her in the eye, the woman said.

Morrill arrested Mannisto and charged him with domestic assault. According to Morrill, when Mannisto angrily demanded to know whether the woman was pressing charges, Morrill said he was arresting Mannisto based on her statement and that of a witness. Officers Edward Mercier and Brad Hanson arrived at that time to assist Morrill and Hodges.

After he was handcuffed, Mannisto began to swear at the officers and resisted being put into the police car, Mercier said. Mannisto told Mercier that he had no right to touch him. When Mercier and Hanson arrived with him at Penobscot County Jail, Mannisto complained to corrections officers that Mercier had used excessive force.

Mannisto later apologized to Mercier, explaining that he was drunk and upset.

A man with a suspended driver’s license was arrested after going the wrong way on a one-way street in Bangor on Saturday afternoon.

Officer Allen Hayden was on Ohio Street when he noticed a green Plymouth Neon going in the wrong direction on Smith Street, which is one-way. Hayden followed the car and pulled it over.

The driver, Llewellyn Cyr, 20, of Carmel, said that he had misplaced his driver’s license. He claimed that it wasn’t suspended, Hayden said.

Cyr said that he hadn’t realized that the street was one-way until after he turned onto it, and that he didn’t stop then because his brakes failed.

Hayden asked Cyr to demonstrate the brake failure, Hayden said, but the brakes seemed to work fine.

A license check showed that Cyr’s license was suspended on four separate counts.

Hayden arrested Cyr for operating after suspension and took him to Penobscot County Jail.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball