Bangor police arrested a man they say was punching his girlfriend early Wednesday.

Officer Eric Tourtelotte reported that he and other officers went to the Ranger Inn on Hammond Street at about 3:30 a.m. for a domestic assault complaint. Tourtelotte said he heard people arguing in one of the rooms.

Through the window, Tourtelotte reportedly saw a man grab a woman by her hair, throw her onto the bed and hit her in the face with open and closed fists.

While Tourtelotte prepared to kick open the door, which was locked, the woman opened it and ran outside. Tourtelotte arrested the man, Bradley Rowland, 42, for assault. The woman had a golf-ball-sized bruise on her cheekbone, Tourtelotte said, and both people were extremely intoxicated.

Officer Brad Hanson reported that the woman was uncooperative and did not want to incriminate her boyfriend. Hanson gave the woman a card from Spruce Run, a shelter for battered women.

A Brewer woman accused Bangor police of being “racist” after they arrested her on an assault charge early Wednesday.

Bangor police Officer Shawn Green reported that he went to Benjamin’s, a tavern on Franklin Street, at about 1:30 a.m. where a fight was reported in progress. He met Maine State Trooper Michael Johnston, who had separated the combatants. Officer Brad Hanson also assisted Green.

Green spoke with an off-duty bartender from the tavern, who said a Teresa Lindsey had been removed from the business after she had tried to cause trouble with another patron. While Lindsey waited for a ride outside the tavern, the bartender said, the other patron came outside accompanying Lindsey’s ex-boyfriend.

Lindsey then allegedly charged the other woman and knocked her down. The bartender told Green that Lindsey punched the other woman several times before the bartender could pull her away.

Green said the alleged victim and the ex-boyfriend corroborated the bartender’s account.

As Green was preparing to summon Lindsey, she reportedly began arguing that the charge was “racist” because she is black and the alleged victim is white. Green said Lindsey’s friends told her it was not race, but the fact that she had punched the other woman that motivated the summons.

An alleged drunken driving incident proved expensive for two local men Tuesday night in Bangor.

Bangor police Officer Myron Warner reported that he went to an accident scene at about 7:15 p.m. near Leadbetter’s Store on Hammond Street.

The driver of a Jeep SUV told Warner he had been driving straight when the other vehicle, a Ford pickup truck, coming in the other direction, turned right in front of him, forcing a collision.

The other driver, James Landry, 43, of Bangor, told Warner he thought there was time for him to turn. Warner said Landry’s eyes were glossy and his speech slurred. He determined Landry was intoxicated and arrested him for operating under the influence.

Warner estimated damage to the Jeep at $4,000, and to the Ford at $2,000.

Brewer police arrested a man on traffic and drug charges Tuesday night.

Officer Roger Hershey said he and Sgt. Jason Moffitt stopped Robert Burpee, 21, at about 11 p.m. on South Main Street after another motorist called to complain about Burpee’s erratic driving.

Hershey said they found Burpee to be intoxicated. His license was suspended, Hershey said, and the officers also found marijuana in Burpee’s pocket, along with rolling papers, and the remains of a marijuana cigarette lying on the passenger seat of his truck.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball