Unknown citizen tackles fleeing suspect

A Bangor man was summoned for drug charges after fleeing police early Friday morning.

Bangor police Officer Christopher Desmond said he was driving down Hammond Street near West Broadway at about half past midnight while Lt. Steven Hunt and Sgt. Al Hayden were investigating suspicious activity in the area.

As Hayden approached two suspects, Desmond said, both of them fled.

An unknown citizen tackled one of the suspects, Joshua Gray, 22. For the officers’ safety, Desmond patted Gray down, he said, finding a pipe and a metal tube with drug residue. Desmond summoned Gray for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Old Town police arrested a man early Friday morning after he allegedly berated officers on two separate occasions.

Officer Chris Hashey said he, Sgt. Michael Hashey and Sgt. Travis Roy were downtown enforcing parking at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when Anthony Yula came out of Number Ten North Main, a bar, screaming and hollering as Hashey was having his car towed. After repeated disorderly conduct warnings, Hashey said, Yula calmed down.

At about half past midnight, Hashey said he and Roy were downtown again when Yula approached their cruisers swearing at them. Hashey said they told Yula not to swear, and when Yula said he wasn’t doing anything wrong they explained the disorderly conduct statute to him.

Hashey said Yula kept swearing, and yelled at Hashey, “I’m dead serious, man, when I see you out outside of your uniform …” at which point Hashey put him under arrest for disorderly conduct. Hashey said Yula was compliant during the arrest.

Two men were arrested in Old Town early Friday morning after they fell into the street fighting, police said.

At about 1 a.m., Old Town police Officers Chris Hashey and Brent Fournier were downtown when they saw a crowd gathered outside Number Ten North Main. Two men were fighting. They fell into the street as the officers pulled up.

Hashey said the men refused to stop fighting, and would not be pulled apart even after Officer Seth Burnes arrived to assist.

Hashey said one of the men had his opponent tightly in a headlock and would not release him. Hashey sprayed him with pepper spray. The fight broke up quickly; Hashey noted the other man may have received some of the spray.

Oscar Sparrow, 24, and Eric Labrecque, 23, were arrested for disorderly conduct. Hashey called an ambulance to decontaminate Sparrow’s eyes.

A Bangor man was arrested by University of Maine Public Safety after he allegedly gave his girlfriend a nosebleed.

Bangor police Officers Erik Tall and Dan Herrick went to a Bean Street apartment at about 11 a.m. to check on the welfare of a woman who lives there. A male friend of the woman in New York state had called police after receiving phone messages from her saying the boyfriend had assaulted her.

Tall said the officers spoke with the woman and she told them her boyfriend, John Wright, 28, grabbed her by the arms Wednesday night and shook her, then pushed her into the doorjamb, causing her nose to bleed.

University of Maine Public Safety officers found Wright at work and arrested him for assault.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball