Bangor police summoned a man Saturday night after restaurant patrons downtown complained he was flashing a knife.

Officers James Hassard and Rob Angelo were dispatched to Broad Street at about 9:30 p.m. on a report that somebody was displaying a knife near the Whig & Courier. The suspect reportedly was wearing a black cape. Hassard reported that as he and Angelo arrived they saw a man in a black trench coat start to cross Broad Street. The officers stopped the man. Angelo asked the man, identified as Edward W. MacDonald, 18, for the knife. Hassard said MacDonald produced a metal spike from his coat sleeve, using a wrist motion to make the weapon fall into his hand. Hassard said the spike was part of a sprinkler.

According to police, MacDonald said he carried the spike to defend himself from a woman who had assaulted him in that area. He said he recently had moved to Bangor from Concord, N.H., where he was a member of the Manchester “Crips” gang.

Hassard took the spike for evidence and summoned MacDonald for carrying a concealed weapon.

Bangor police arrested a Steuben man on drunken driving charges early Sunday. Officer Edward Mercier reported that he and Officer James Hassard were parked on Odlin Road across from the Ramada Inn parking lot at about 1:30 a.m. The area was busy, Mercier said, because the bar had just closed. The officers saw a car leave the back parking lot and turn the wrong way on Outer Hammond Street, back up and continue eastward in the correct lane. Mercier said he followed the car onto Interstate 395, where the car veered toward the shoulder then back toward the center. When Mercier turned on his blue lights, he said, the car’s driver did not respond for one-10th of a mile. The car finally stopped by Exit 2.

Mercier said the driver, Richard Cipollone, 37, of Steuben, had bloodshot eyes, breath that smelled of alcohol and speech so slurred it was hard to understand. When Mercier asked Cipollone if he had been drinking, Cipollone responded, “I just came from the bar.” Mercier said Cipollone clarified his answer by saying, “Yes, I had a drink.”

Cipollone had to steady himself by leaning on the car when he got out for sobriety tests, Mercier said, and he did not perform well on them. Mercier arrested Cipollone and took him to the station; he later was released.

Officer Hassard determined that Cipollone’s passenger, the owner of the car, was sober. He let her drive the car away.

Bangor police arrested a Hermon man early Sunday after he allegedly ran a stop sign while drunk. Officer Edward Mercier reported that he stopped a pickup truck on Hammond Street after he saw it roll through the stop sign from Franklin Street at about 2:20 a.m. Mercier said the driver, Shawn Treadwell, 26, moved slowly and clumsily as he got his paperwork. Treadwell denied drinking and running the stop sign, asserting that he had just left work. Mercier said he smelled alcohol on Treadwell’s breath.

Mercier said Treadwell had poor balance and performed poorly on sobriety tests. When Mercier arrested him on the charge of operating under the influence, Treadwell reportedly said, “What, I have only had one beer.” Mercier said he found a small bag of marijuana in Treadwell’s pocket and a pipe containing burned resin in the pickup truck.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball