Brewer man charged with assault

Brewer police arrested a man after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend Tuesday night.

Officer Paul Gauvin reported that at about 10:15 p.m. police received word of an assault on Blake Street. Sgt. Jason Moffitt arrived first and spoke with a woman who was bleeding from her face. She told Moffitt that her boyfriend, Leslie Jamieson, 33, of Brewer, had hit her. She had called police from a neighbor’s house.

Dispatch informed Moffitt that they had Jamieson on the phone and that he was confessing to the assault. Dispatch ordered Jamieson to leave his apartment as Officers Nelson Feero and Paul Gauvin arrived.

Jamieson was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

Gauvin said witnesses agreed that Jamieson had ripped the phone out of his girlfriend’s hands when she tried to call her father after the assault. They also told Gauvin that Jamieson, whose license was suspended in connection with an OUI charge, had driven to the apartment.

Gauvin said his drug-sniffing dog searched Jamieson’s car and found a pipe containing marijuana residue.

Jamieson was charged with operating after suspension, obstructing the report of a crime, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Bangor police summoned a man for theft after he allegedly took a wallet left on a store counter Tuesday night.

Officer Eric Tourtelotte reported that at about 8:15 p.m. he went to Young’s Market on the corner of Court and Ohio streets for a complaint of a stolen wallet. A man there told him that he put his wallet on the counter while making a purchase and left the wallet there because he was in a hurry. When he realized he’d left his wallet in the store, the man told Tourtelotte, he went back in but the wallet was gone.

A man in the store told the wallet’s owner that he saw another man pick it up and leave the store, headed down Court Street. Officer Tourtelotte requested that other officers search the area for the man, later identified as Michael Garland, 47.

Tourtelotte said that while he was interviewing the wallet’s owner, Garland came into the store and said he had the wallet.

Garland led Tourtelotte to a Charles Street address and took the wallet from a mailbox. He handed Tourtelotte a $1 bill and a $20 bill with the wallet. When the wallet’s owner and a witness agreed there had been three $20 bills in the wallet when it was lost a few minutes before, Garland denied seeing them when he looked through the wallet.

Garland was summoned for theft.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball