East Millinocket cop delivers puppies

An East Millinocket police officer helped deliver four puppies Thursday morning.

Officer Warren Nelson reported that at about 11:30 a.m. he was dispatched to an Elm Street address, where somebody had requested an officer. Nelson said that when he arrived, he found at the address a neighbor with a dog that was in labor.

Nelson said he delivered four of the puppies, which the neighbor took inside until the dog’s owner could return from work. The outside temperature was about 20 degrees, Nelson said.

The neighbor called Nelson later to say the dog had delivered three additional puppies, with more believed to be on the way.

A warden dispatched a wounded coyote in Brewer Thursday afternoon.

Brewer police officer Rodney Gerald said that at about 4 p.m. he was called to North Main Street, near Parkway South, where a car had struck a coyote. Gerald said the animal was badly wounded but still alive.

Gerald, hesitant to fire his service weapon in a residential area, called the Warden Service. He said Warden Alan Gillis came and shot the coyote with a shotgun.

Bangor police determined that both drivers contributed to a collision Thursday morning.

Officer David Bushey reported that at about 7:30 a.m. a 1994 Ford pickup truck, driven by Brian Saunders, 39, of Corinth was headed north on Ohio Street when a 2002 Saturn station wagon pulled out of Fox Hollow in front of the truck.

Sandra Hardy, 66, of Bangor, driving the Saturn, told Bushey she hadn’t seen the truck coming. The collision caused about $1,000 in damage to Saunders’ truck and about $4,000 to Hardy’s car.

Bushey said Saunders’ tires left a 50-foot-long tire mark as he braked. Hardy had had about 200 feet of visibility in the direction Saunders was coming from, Bushey said.

Bushey said illegal unsafe speed on Saunders’ part, and failure to yield right of way on Hardy’s part, both contributed to the accident. The speed limit on that section of Ohio Street is 45 mph.

Bushey said Saunders was unhurt, but Hardy received a bruise on her head.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball