EMTC student unfazed by his arrest for OUI

An Eastern Maine Technical College student took a philosophical approach to his OUI arrest early Wednesday morning.

Bangor police Officer Brad Hanson stopped a truck on Sylvan Road at 1:30 a.m. A smell of alcohol came from the window as he spoke with the driver, Justin King, an EMTC student.

Neither King nor his two passengers, also students, gave Hanson an answer when he asked what they were doing in the area, Hanson said. When Hanson asked King how much he had been drinking, King said nothing.

Hanson said he asked King to step out of the truck. As he did so, a half-full can of beer fell onto the pavement.

King told Hanson, “I’m feeling it,” Hanson said.

As Hanson tested King’s finger dexterity, King said, “I can’t do this; if you’re gonna arrest me for OUI, just do it.”

Hanson said King did not even attempt the walk and turn test, saying, “Go ahead and arrest me.”

As Hanson arrested King for operating under the influence, King informed Hanson that an OUI charge would ruin his life.

Bangor police arrested a woman Tuesday night for driving a car with swapped plates.

Officer Wade Betters said he saw a car headed out of town on Essex Street, which he clocked at 52 mph in a 25-mph zone.

Betters stopped the car, driven by Terri Nicholson, 38. She had no registration or insurance papers, and dispatch informed Betters that the plates on the car belonged to another vehicle.

Nicholson admitted she knew the plates were wrong, Betters said. She said she was test-driving the car, which she had just bought. The correct plates were lying in the back seat, expired.

Betters arrested Nicholson for operating an unregistered vehicle with illegally attached plates and summoned her for speeding and failing to provide evidence of insurance.

Old Town police arrested a man with a suspended license after a brief struggle Tuesday night.

At about 7 p.m. on Stillwater Avenue, Officer Chris Hashey recognized a driver, Darryl Ogden, 31, of Old Town, who he thought had a suspended license. He said the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles confirmed the suspension.

Hashey followed Ogden to his girlfriend’s house and told him he was under arrest. Hashey said that Ogden ran into the house and tried to push Hashey away when he grabbed his arm. Hashey said he had to take Ogden to the ground to handcuff him.

Ogden was charged with operating after suspension and failure to submit to arrest.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball