Hampden teen hits utility pole, cuts power to nearby homes

A Hampden teenager knocked down a utility pole and totaled her SUV Tuesday morning, according to Hampden police Officer Shawn Devine.

Alyson Lumino, 16, veered off Western Avenue in Hampden in a Jeep Cherokee, knocking down a utility pole. The crash, which took place just before 11:30 a.m., cut power to around twenty homes in West Hampden for about two hours, Devine said. Neither Alyson Lumino nor her sister, Christina Lumino, were hurt, but 16-year-old Natalie Vanaken, a passenger in the back seat, had to have stitches for a cut on her head. Devine said Alyson Lumino had been trying to get something out of her shoe and wasn’t paying attention to the road where it curves near the Sawyer Road junction. Devine said all three teenagers were wearing seat belts.

A Hampden man received a head injury and two summonses after refusing to leave his ex-girlfriend’s house in Brewer on Monday night. Brewer police Officers Jeff Gotreau and Rodney Gerald, with Sgt. Chris Martin, went to a Rinfret Drive address at 9:15 p.m. for a report of a fight.

They found David Stickney, 33, outside the residence with a visible injury to his head. Officer Gotreau reported that Stickney had evidently called his ex-girlfriend, who lives at the house, several times earlier.

She told him not to come over, but he went over anyway and found she had another male visitor.

Gotreau said Stickney got into an argument with his ex-girlfriend and refused to leave.

He allegedly hit the other man over the head with a vacuum cleaner, which started the fight in which Stickney received his head wound.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball