A phone call received in Veazie last weekend led to an arrest in Henrico County, Va., on a Freeport warrant.

A Veazie woman called police shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday and said her ex-husband had phoned her and that she had traced the call, according to Veazie police Officer Ryan Welch. He said the ex-husband, Adam Swanson, 28, was under a protection order prohibiting contact with his ex-wife.

Virginia State Police helped Welch find the cell phone company that owns the phone. The company in turn gave Welch the name and address of the phone’s subscriber, Welch said.

Welch contacted the Henrico County Police Department, and sent them a copy of a warrant from Freeport that was extraditable nationwide. The Freeport warrant concerned Swanson’s failure to appear at court to answer charges of theft by deception and writing a bad check, Freeport authorities said.

In August 2002, Swanson had written a check from a closed account to buy two firearms from L.L. Bean, authorities said, and then returned one of the guns for a cash refund.

Authorities said the total value of the bad check and the refund, including unpaid bank fees for the bad check, was $1,899.

Henrico County police called later to say they had found Swanson at the subscriber’s address and arrested him. Officer Woodson told Welch they were holding Swanson in jail and were confirming the warrant with Freeport, Welch said.

An arrest warrant for the violation of protection order charge in Veazie is pending, Welch said.

Welch added that Swanson might be held in Virginia longer to answer other felony charges issued in that state.

A Bangor man told police he had hit his girlfriend Tuesday afternoon, but the girlfriend denied it, according to Bangor police Officer Butch Moor.

Moor responded to a 911 hang-up call just before 1:30 p.m.

When he arrived at the Griffin Road apartment, Moor found Steven Sanders, 41, leaving. Sanders told Moor that he had hit his girlfriend, and said, “You don’t want to talk to her, she will deny it,” Moor said.

Moor went inside to speak to the girlfriend, who said Sanders had made the call to the police and had forced her to talk on the phone, Moor said.

When Moor asked her about red marks on her neck, she told him that they had been made by the phone cord as Sanders held the phone to her ear.

The woman told Moor that Sanders should not be arrested and he had a mental problem. When Moor told her that Sanders would not be allowed to come home if he made bail, she said that she didn’t want to see him out on the street.

Sanders’ girlfriend was not cooperative and didn’t complete the Domestic Violence Worksheet, Moor said.

Sanders was taken to Penobscot County Jail and charged with domestic assault.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball