Teenagers arrested for alleged drug use

Two Hampden teenagers were arrested after they were allegedly caught snorting methamphetamine near the high school Tuesday morning.

A concerned resident called police at about 11 a.m. saying there were two people snorting what was believed to be cocaine in a car in the parking lot of Rite Aid next to Hampden Academy.

Hampden Police Chief Joseph Rogers went to the lot, the report said, and found the suspects, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. Rogers found marijuana in the vehicle.

Sgt. Dan Stewart, and Cpl. Chris Bailey, school resource officer at the high school, arrived soon afterward. A search of the car produced a mirror with some white residue on it. Based on statements from the suspects, the residue was methamphetamine, the report said.

Both youths admitted snorting the drug, the report said. They were both arrested, and later released into their parents’ custody.

The girl was issued a Class C felony charge of possession of Schedule W drugs. The boy was issued a Class B felony charge of furnishing Schedule W drugs. The boy’s charge was made Class B because the alleged crime occurred within 1,000 feet of a school.

Bangor police arrested an Orono man after he allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment Monday night.

Officer Douglas Moore reported that at about 11:30 p.m. he and Officers Wade Betters and Brad Hanson went to a First Street apartment building, where a woman was on the phone with dispatch, saying a drunken man had kicked in her apartment door.

Moore said that as he entered the common entrance to the building, he could hear a woman screaming on the second floor. At that point, dispatch informed the officers that they had lost contact with the caller.

Moore ran upstairs and opened the door to the apartment, finding a man and a woman. Moore said the man just stared at him when he asked his name. The woman was crying. Moore said he grabbed the man by his jacket and dragged him out of the apartment. Officer Hanson then went upstairs and helped Moore take the man to the ground and put handcuffs on him.

Moore said materials on the man identified him as Christopher Huggins, 23, of Orono.

Moore spoke with the woman, who said Huggins, an ex-boyfriend, had called her several times that day saying he wanted to see her. Huggins later knocked on her door, she said, and she asked him to leave. He refused, and when she threatened to call police he said he would kick the door in. Huggins began counting backward, the woman said, and when she called 911 he kicked the door in.

Moore said he noticed a deadbolt lying on the floor of the apartment.

The woman told Moore that Huggins pushed her, and ripped the phone cord out of the wall.

Officer Betters remained behind to collect evidence and further statements, while Hanson and Moore took Huggins to Penobscot County Jail. He was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, assault and obstructing the report of a crime.

Brewer police arrested a man after he allegedly refused to pay a cab fare early Tuesday.

Cpl. Levi Sewall reported that at about 2 a.m. he went to a Chamberlain Street address. A taxi driver was there, who said he let a passenger out there after the man said he would return and pay the driver the $12.15 fare.

Sewall said the passenger, Eric Carlisle, 26, did not come back out, but did exchange some words with the driver from his door. Sewall said that when Carlisle refused to pay even when asked by the police, he was arrested and charged with theft.

Sewall said Carlisle appeared to be intoxicated.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball