Ill. woman arrested at airport after altercation

Bangor police arrested a woman at Bangor International Airport Wednesday afternoon.

Officer Michael Kenny reported that at about 1:20 p.m., Don Griffith, supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration at BIA, radioed to request a law enforcement officer at Gate 2.

When Kenny arrived, he said, Griffith showed him a small pair of scissors found by X-ray in a passenger’s luggage. The woman, Mary-Lou Ingwersen, 78, of Winnetka, Ill., was yelling loudly as her other luggage was searched, Kenny said.

Kenny said that when he asked Ingwersen to quiet down, she swore at him in a loud voice. Kenny then warned Ingwersen that if there were another outburst, she would be arrested.

Kenny said Ingwersen then got in his face, stepped on his toes and said, “Then arrest me!” Kenny said he gave Ingwersen a disorderly conduct warning. She muttered to herself, Kenny said, then yelled, “I can’t [expletive] believe this – this is America?”

Kenny arrested Ingwersen, who continued to be belligerent, he said, stomping on his foot and kicking him in the shin.

Ingwersen was taken to Penobscot County Jail and charged with disorderly conduct and assault.

Old Town police charged two teenagers Monday after one allegedly filed a false report.

Officer Roy Peary reported that at about 1:30 p.m. he went to the Regency mobile home park to speak with a teenage boy who said his home had been broken into. Peary said a window in the home had been broken.

While Peary was taking the report, a friend of the boy stumbled in, apparently intoxicated. Further questioning revealed that the second boy had been drinking at the home earlier and had broken the window with his fist. The boy who lived at the home admitted he had reported the burglary to explain the broken window to his parents, Peary said. He was summoned for filing a false report.

The other boy was taken to the station. While he was there, according to Officer Bob Pelletier, another burglary was reported in the same park. A woman had arrived at her home shortly before 4 p.m. to find her stove turned on, eggs and pickles removed from the refrigerator and a box of cereal in the bedroom. Entry had been gained via an unlocked window, Pelletier said.

Pelletier said a sweat shirt also had been taken from the trailer. It matched a sweat shirt worn by the intoxicated boy who was at the station. After further investigation, the second boy was charged with illegal possession of liquor, criminal trespass and theft.

Brewer police arrested a Massachusetts man on a charge of operating under the influence of intoxicants Tuesday night.

Officer Nelson Feero reported that at about 10 p.m. he was driving on Wilson Street when he noticed that the car ahead of him was moving erratically. Feero said the car moved slowly, then sped up; signaled a turn without actually turning; and made a left turn in a right-turn-only lane.

Feero said the rear window of the car was blocked by a pile of belongings and the trunk was unlatched. He stopped the car in the parking lot of the Brewer Motor Inn.

Feero said the driver exited the car after stopping and took 10 seconds to understand Feero’s order to get back into the car. The man caught his foot in the doorway of the car, taking several seconds to free it.

Feero said the driver, Philip Banks, 44, of Bridgewater, Mass., showed other signs of intoxication and performed poorly on sobriety tests. A breath test found Banks had more than four times the legal limit for blood-alcohol content.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball