ELLSWORTH – A Bucksport woman arrested last week for allegedly threatening to kill her Bangor therapist and holding another woman hostage with a pair of scissors has a history of threatening psychiatrists, according to a local prosecutor.

Laurie Beal, 39, was on probation for prior convictions of assault, terrorizing and criminal mischief when she was arrested in Bangor, Hancock County Assistant District Attorney Mary Kellett said Tuesday.

“She had threatened to kill her psychiatrist in Ellsworth about a year ago,” Kellett said.

Beal appeared Tuesday in Ellsworth District Court on a probation violation connected with last week’s incident.

Defense attorney Francis Cassidy of Machias told Judge Bernard Staples that he wanted to find out which defense attorney in Bangor had been appointed to represent Beal on the alleged new criminal conduct before holding a hearing on the resulting probation revocation in Ellsworth.

“It doesn’t make sense to have two attorneys,” Cassidy said.

Staples scheduled a probation revocation hearing for Beal on April 27 in Ellsworth District Court. Meanwhile, Beal will be held without bail at Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth.

Kellett said Beal threatened and bit her Ellsworth psychiatrist in December 2002 when the doctor refused to change Beal’s medicine prescription.

The March 18 incident in Bangor occurred when Beal allegedly became upset after her psychiatrist refused to see her and had obtained a protection order against her, Bangor police have said.