Hampden man threatens to kill himself after alleged assault

Hampden police arrested a man Sunday after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend.

Sgt. Scott Webber said he and Officers Shawn Devine and Ben Eyles went to an Orient Avenue home after a neighbor reported a fight.

Based on statements by Marc Taft, 44, and his girlfriend, the officers determined that the couple had had an argument that morning, which turned physical when Taft pushed his girlfriend. Webber said that when the girlfriend had tried to leave, Taft allegedly picked her up, carried her inside and kept her from leaving.

Webber said Taft also had brandished a gun and threatened to shoot himself if his girlfriend left. The officers found ammunition on the ground outside and at least six firearms in the living room.

According to Webber, Taft also told the officers he would kill himself if his girlfriend left him.

Taft was arrested and charged with domestic assault and criminal restraint.

An Orland man was arrested at the hospital after a fight with his girlfriend Monday morning.

Bangor police Officer Butch Moor reported that he went to Granada Apartments at about 10:30 a.m. for a report of a domestic disturbance. Moor said he met a woman there who had blood on her face and a cut on her hand. She refused medical assistance.

The woman told Moor that she and Justin Shute, 21, had had an argument and that a glass had somehow broken, cutting her. She also told Moor that Shute had hit her in the face with his fists.

Moor said he was at Eastern Maine Medical Center, photographing the woman’s injuries, when he encountered Shute, who was there for an injury he said the woman had given him by hitting him with a glass candlestick, which broke. Shute admitted hitting the woman in response, Moor said.

Moor arrested Shute for assault. Shute said he would write up his own report of the incident.

One man was arrested Sunday after a police pursuit down the wrong way of a one-way street in Bangor.

Officer Shawn Green first attempted to pull the car over at 2:45 a.m. on Harlow Street, in connection with an assault complaint on Kenduskeag Avenue, the report said. After turning on his blue lights, Green pursued the car a few blocks. The car accelerated and made a sudden turn into the opposite lane of traffic on Newton Street, nearly striking the curb.

Green turned on his siren and followed the car as it turned left onto a one-way section of Spring Street, traveling in the wrong direction at speeds up to 40 mph according to the report. The car finally stopped on Cumberland Street, where Green arrested the driver, Jacob Roy.

After failing an breathalyzer test at the police station, Roy was charged with operating under the influence, eluding an officer, operating without a license and operating the wrong way on a one-way street. Roy’s girlfriend and passenger, Jessica Howes, was charged with assault in connection with the original Kenduskeag Avenue complaint.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Jackie Farwell and Isaac Kimball