Former UM athlete accused of driving with invalid license

Veazie police summoned a former University of Maine hockey standout for speeding and operating after suspension Wednesday evening.

Officer Thomas Warner was monitoring traffic on Chase Road about 6:30 p.m. when he stopped a car that had passed him at 40 mph in a 25 mph zone.

The driver, Nicholas Dimitrakos, 24, had an active Massachusetts driver’s license, but his Maine license was suspended, Warner said. Dimitrakos was a second-team All-America hockey player in 2002. Dimitrakos said he had paid the fine and that his license should not be suspended.

When Warner told Dimitrakos he would be summoned, Dimitrakos said he was going to Finland to play hockey and would have his attorney go to court for him.

An Orono man admitted that everyone had told him not to contact his wife, who had taken out a protection order against him, but he didn’t listen.

Daryl Allen Szady, 47, was headed to the parking lot of Burby & Bates liquor store in Orono on Thursday afternoon where he was expecting to meet up with his wife and be given $80. He was arrested instead. Orono police Officer Willie King said he stopped Szady as he was headed to the parking lot.

Already out on bail for allegedly assaulting his wife last week, Szady wasn’t supposed to have contact with his wife. She also was granted a protection from abuse order against him Monday. Szady was charged with violation of conditions of release and with violating the protection of abuse order.

According to police, the night before, Szady called his estranged wife and during the conversation indicated that he knew he was violating the law and that others had warned him not to contact her.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Isaac Kimball and Doug Kesseli