2 men arrested after break-in complaint

Bangor police arrested two men after a break-in complaint early Tuesday.

At about 1:45 a.m., Sgt. Bob Bishop and Officer James Buckley received a call from a Grove Street apartment saying two drunk people were trying to break in.

When they arrived, Detective John Robinson and Officer Christopher Blanchard were already at the scene.

A man came down the stairs with bloody hands, Buckley said. Robinson recognized him as Daniel Leduc, 22, of Bangor. Buckley and Bishop left Leduc with Robinson and Blanchard.

Upstairs they found a man passed out in the hallway, later identified as Michael Ireland, 39, of Bangor, who later said he didn’t know where he was.

Bishop said there was a broken glass doorknob on the floor. Blood was on two of the doors in the hallway.

A neighbor told Buckley he had heard men in the hallway banging on doors. When he saw the knob and lock on his door turning, the man said, he grabbed a kitchen knife and called police.

Dispatch informed Robinson and Blanchard that there were no warrants out on either man, but said Leduc was on federal probation. The officers handcuffed Leduc, Buckley reported, because he was aggressive and uncooperative.

Buckley said Leduc appeared to be the one who broke the doorknob and bled all over everything.

Bishop said that when Buckley told Ireland to leave, he walked into the street and began swearing at the officers. When Ireland refused to stop after being warned, Blanchard and Buckley arrested him for disorderly conduct.

Bishop said that while he was talking to Probation and Parole about Leduc’s case, Leduc approached him insisting to speak to the probation officer. Bishop held Leduc away by placing his hand on Leduc’s chest at which point Leduc tried to bite Bishop and spat on him. Leduc then started walking away, Bishop said.

Buckley said he stopped Leduc, who kicked him in the inner thigh and tried to spit on him as well. Buckley said he pinned Leduc to the seat of the cruiser with his head turned away so he couldn’t spit at him.

Leduc was charged with criminal mischief, failure to submit to a law enforcement officer and two counts of assault.

Two vehicles from New Brunswick met on an icy road in Amherst on Monday evening.

Maine State Trooper Brian Theriault said Cindy McFarlane, 41, of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, was driving east on Route 9.

At about 7:30 p.m. her car slid across the line on a curve and met the bumper of a westbound tractor-trailer driven by James Kelly, 55, of Quispamsis, New Brunswick. Theriault said the car was totaled. An ambulance took McFarlane to Eastern Maine Medical Center after she complained of back and neck pain.

Neither driver was traveling at excessive speed, Theriault said, but ice on the road made legal speeds dangerous.

A driver on Coleman Hill Road in Holden escaped from her rolled-over car in bare feet at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The red Honda was left lying upside down in the ditch, its rear window smashed. The driver evidently escaped through the opened side window.

Holden Fire Chief Jim Ellis pointed out footprints in the snow, spaced wide apart and running away from the car. A bumper sticker on the car read, “Ninja monkeys are meeting as we speak, plotting my demise.”

Ellis said the driver refused an ambulance.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball