Car backs over 5-year-old in Hampden

A Hampden woman allegedly backed her car over a 5-year-old boy Wednesday afternoon.

Hampden police Officer Ben Eyles said the woman, Shauna Woods, 27, was backing her car out of her driveway at about 5:45 p.m. as children were playing tag in the area. Woods reportedly said she felt a bump, and stopped immediately.

Her passenger got out and found the boy with his back pinned under the rear wheel. The man lifted up on the rear of the car as Woods pulled forward to release the boy, who was then taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor by Hampden Ambulance.

Eyles, who would not release the boy’s name, said the youngster had cuts on his head and arms. He was unable to say whether the boy’s back was hurt. Eyles said Woods will be charged with failure to produce evidence of insurance.

Brewer police charged a Bangor man Tuesday afternoon after he allegedly tried to make a purchase with a client’s credit card number.

Officer Nathan Feero said that at about 6 p.m. he received a call from a company in Kansas reporting that a man had called trying to buy hundreds of dollars’ worth of scooter parts, to be delivered to a Bangor address, with a credit card whose holder’s address was in Brewer.

Feero said he contacted the card’s owner. She told him her credit card company’s fraud department had already called her. She said the phone number the company gave her, from which the order had been made, belonged to William McElligott,24, whom she had recently hired to clean her cars. McElligott was reportedly starting his own business.

Feero said he asked McElligott to come to the station. McElligott initially denied making the order, but after further questioning he admitted to it and was charged with misuse of credit identification.

Bangor police arrested a Milo man Tuesday afternoon on assorted charges.

Officer Rob Angelo reported that at about 5:15 p.m. he was told to be on the lookout for a white GMC pickup truck. The driver, Joshua Herbest, 19, had allegedly been seen fleeing J. C. Penney with armloads of clothes without paying for them. He reportedly also had been seen stealing from that store the day before. The total value of the clothing taken was $580.

Angelo said the truck passed him on Pine Street. He stopped the vehicle just after it turned onto Broadway, and spoke with Herbest.

Angelo said he saw a pile of new clothes with their tags still attached on the seat of the truck.

Angelo said Herbest’s license was suspended. Herbest said he knew it was suspended, but thought the suspension was almost up. Angelo placed Herbest under arrest.

Angelo said Officer William Lawrence informed him the truck’s plates were illegally attached. Herbest explained he hadn’t had time to change them since he bought the truck, Angelo said. Herbest had bought the truck several months before.

Herbest was charged with operating under suspension, illegal attachment of plates and two counts of theft.

An intoxicated taxi passenger took a tumble off the Interstate 395 on-ramp Wednesday night in Brewer.

Three police cruisers, a fire engine and an ambulance sped to the on-ramp at about 9 p.m. Officer Roger Hershey said the passenger, evidently feeling ill, had asked to get out of the cab. The man then lost his footing and fell down the steep embankment next to the breakdown lane.

Hershey said the man was bleeding from his mouth, but otherwise not hurt.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball