Paper carrier rescued on flooded Howland road

A newspaper carrier found himself in deep water in Howland early Friday.

Dispatcher Bill Grant of Penobscot Regional Dispatch said that at about 3 a.m. he received a 911 call from a woman whose husband had called her on his cellular phone to tell her his car was stuck on a flooded road.

Grant said he called the driver, who apparently had driven 100 feet into the slow-moving water while carrying newspapers on Medford Road in Howland. The man was perched on the car windowsill, fearing to climb higher and risk falling into the cold water.

Grant said that by the time Howland Fire Department arrived, the rising river, swollen by heavy rain and melting snow, had almost reached the car’s steering wheel. Grant said the man was rescued successfully.

Brewer police arrested a woman Thursday night in connection with a 911 hang-up call.

Officer Nelson Feero reported that dispatch called the number back after the hang-up. A woman answered and said everything was all right, Feero said, but the dispatcher believed she sounded out of breath and upset. Feero, with Officer Rodney Gerald, went to the Day Road residence to investigate.

Feero said a woman later identified as Susan Bouchard, 49, of Brewer opened the door and said her boyfriend was drunk, but that she was handling it.

Feero asked to speak with the boyfriend. He noticed a cut above the man’s eye.

Feero said Bouchard’s boyfriend told him Bouchard had hit him. Feero said Bouchard admitted to hitting her boyfriend. Feero arrested Bouchard, charging her with assault.

A man was arrested on theft charges Thursday night in Bangor.

Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan reported that at 6:30 p.m. he was dispatched to the intersection of Union and Fourteenth streets. A bystander there had reported that two men had left an SUV parked on one corner and crossed the street to enter Brooks Pharmacy.

Jordan said he saw the two men leaving Brooks when he arrived. When the men saw Jordan, he said, they started walking down Fourteenth Street.

Jordan said dispatch informed him that the men leaving the store had activated an anti-theft alarm. He then noticed the pair walking near the Union Street Citgo station and called to them. One of the men stopped and the other kept walking.

The man who stopped gave Jordan the name Carlos Enrique, but had no identification. Jordan said the man offered to let Jordan search him. Jordan said he found a “One Touch” blood-sugar tester, still in its package, with a Brooks price tag on it. Jordan said he handcuffed the man and put him in the cruiser.

An employee at Brooks confirmed that the sugar tester had not been purchased that night. Jordan took the man to Penobscot County Jail, where the man said his full name was Carlos Enrique Pas. He told Jordan that he had no papers because he was from Puerto Rico and didn’t need any. However, when Jordan put Pas on the phone with a Border Patrol agent, Pas said he was from Honduras.

Jordan noted that Pas had numerous gang-related tattoos on his arms.

The Border Patrol notified Bangor police at about 10:30 p.m. that they would pick up Pas Friday morning.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball