Police arrest Brewer resident in alleged assault, pot growing

Brewer and state police arrested a Brewer man for assault and summoned him for marijuana cultivation while executing a search warrant Sunday afternoon.

Brewer police Sgt. Christopher Martin said a woman who lives on Howard Lane in Brewer called police from Bradley at about 11:15 a.m. to say her husband, Raymond Lee, 38, had assaulted her.

She had left home with a relative, she told police, and said that while they were leaving Lee told the relative he would kill him.

State troopers Kyle Willette and Tad Simpson went to Bradley to speak with the woman. She told them Lee hit her in the head and chest. She had a head injury and was taken to St. Joseph Hospital.

The troopers told Sgt. Martin that Lee allegedly called his wife’s family in Bradley, saying that he would wreck the house if she didn’t come back, and that he wouldn’t open the door to the police.

Martin said Lee has a history of violent crimes, and his wife would be at risk when she left the hospital. Rather than waiting until Monday to obtain an arrest warrant, he wrote up an affidavit for a search warrant for Lee’s home.

Martin said it is unusual to identify a person as the object of a search warrant, but in this case it was the quickest legal way to get to Lee since he would not answer the door. Martin received the warrant at about 3 p.m.

Along with Troopers Seth Edwards and Kyle Willette, Martin entered Lee’s house and arrested him for domestic assault and terrorizing. While inside, they found a pipe and two live marijuana plants. Lee was summoned for cultivating marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Witnesses told Brewer police they saw a man hit a woman in a parking lot across from the Epstein building on South Main Street at about 10 a.m. Sunday.

Sgt. Christopher Martin said witnesses described a white man in his early 20s driving a gray Nissan truck.

The man reportedly punched a white female in her late teens or early 20s, of slight build, who tried to run away but eventually got into his truck and drove away with him.

Anyone with information about the incident should call Brewer police at 989-7001.

A Bangor man was summoned after crashing his dirt bike Saturday afternoon.

Bangor police Officer Douglas Moore said he went to an Outer Hammond Street address at about 12:15 p.m. for a reported motorcycle accident. He found emergency medical personnel treating a man lying in the middle of the road.

Debra Keller, 50, said she was turning left in her Pontiac when a dirt bike hit her car. She said she didn’t see it coming.

A witness told Moore the driver of the dirt bike flew over the hood of the car. Moore found a 57-foot-long skid mark in the road leading to the accident.

At Eastern Maine Medical Center, Moore spoke with Joshua Gallant, 20, who said he had no motorcycle endorsement on his license. He admitted the bike was not registered.

Dispatchers informed Moore that Gallant’s license was suspended for speeding. Gallant said he hadn’t received notice of the suspension.

Moore summoned Gallant for operating after suspension and operating an unregistered vehicle on a public way.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball