November 08, 2024
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Blood trail leads Bangor police to OUI suspect

A Bangor man left a trail of blood from his crashed car Sunday night.

Bangor police Officers Jim Hassard and William Lawrence went to West Broadway late Sunday night after receiving word of an accident. They found a white Honda Civic crashed into a telephone pole, with nobody in it.

Hassard said the windshield appeared to have been partially broken by the driver’s head. There was blood inside the car, and drops on the pavement led toward Cedar Street.

The car was registered to Ryan Hamm of Lincoln Street. Hassard said a Bangor Fire Department ambulance had taken Hamm to Eastern Maine Medical Center earlier that evening with bleeding head injuries.

Hassard said police found Hamm in the home of a neighbor, who had called police complaining about a burglar. Hamm reportedly had been trying to get to his own house.

Hassard went to EMMC, where the staff told him Hamm did not know how he had been injured. Hassard said Hamm asked him what happened. When Hassard asked Hamm how much he had had to drink, Hamm admitted it was more than he should have. He did not remember an accident, but said he wouldn’t have been driving drunk since he is awaiting trial for a drunken driving charge.

After having Hamm’s blood drawn for an alcohol-content test, Hassard took Hamm home, where he summoned him for operating under the influence and leaving the scene of a personal-injury accident.

Hassard said Hamm was cooperative.

A home in Old Town was burglarized Monday.

Officer Bob Pelletier said a home on Lonnie Loop in Sunrise Trailer Park apparently was broken into between 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Prescription medications were missing, along with $2,138 in cash. Pelletier said it appears the burglar forced a hand through the back-door window and opened the door.

The case is under investigation.

Valuables disappeared from a number of cars in the Thomas Hill area in Bangor on Sunday night.

Officer Butch Moor said a rechargeable flashlight worth $80 was taken from a Chevrolet truck, which the owner had left unlocked on Cottage Street.

Moor said a stereo from a 1991 Geo, worth about $100, was missing. A pair of insulated wire cutters was found on the floor of the car, which the owner had left unlocked on James Street.

Moor said a CD player was stolen from a 1990 Honda Civic parked overnight on Thomas Hill Road. The driver’s side window was broken.

Moor said there were no known suspects in any of the cases.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball


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