Bangor man accused of assaulting girlfriend with TV remote control

A Bangor man allegedly beat his girlfriend with a remote control and threatened her life with a crowbar Sunday night.

At about 10 a.m. Monday, Bangor police Officers Randall Parsons, Paul Colley and Marty McCrea went to a First Street apartment on a domestic disturbance report.

Wayne Wier, 48, of Bangor let them into his apartment, where they found Wier’s girlfriend lying on a mattress, upset, Parsons said. While McCrea spoke with Wier in the hallway, Parsons spoke to the woman.

Parsons said that when Wier left the room, the woman became so upset she had difficulty breathing. She told Parsons her daughter had come over Sunday night, and that Wier wanted her to leave. The woman told Parsons that Wier punched her daughter in the shoulder and mouth.

Parsons said the woman told him she took her daughter to Eastern Maine Medical Center. When she returned, the woman said, she and Wier began arguing, and Wier hit her in the eye with the TV remote control, telling her to leave or he would kill her.

The woman told Parsons she slept most of the night in her van. She said at one point Wier came outside and told her he would kill her with a crowbar. She went back inside at about 3 a.m., she said, and slept until 9:30 a.m., when her daughter came to the sidewalk outside the apartment and began yelling her name through the window.

The woman told Parsons that Wier punched her in the eye and told her to get out.

McCrea took Wier to the Penobscot County Jail, charging him with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and assault.

A Ford Explorer went missing from its home in Millinocket on Monday, but was recovered a few hours later badly damaged.

Millinocket police Sgt. Donald Bolduc said the white SUV was reported missing from its Wassau Street home at about 9:15 a.m. It had been left unlocked, with the keys in the ignition.

Bolduc said a passer-by discovered the SUV about 10 miles away on Stacyville Road. It had extensive damage.

Millinocket police are urging residents not to leave their cars unlocked or with the keys in the ignition.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball