Police charge man with theft, assault

Bangor police arrested a man on a number of charges, including assault and theft, Monday afternoon.

Officer Steve Jordan reported that at about 4:35 p.m. he went to a Charles Street address where a man was caught burglarizing a car. Jordan said he tried to put the man, Shawab Jenkins, 27, under arrest, but Jenkins resisted.

Officers Ed Mercier and James Dearing arrived shortly and helped pick Jenkins up and put him in Jordan’s cruiser. Jordan took Jenkins, a transient, to Penobscot County Jail.

Mercier reported that he spoke with the owners of the burglarized car and their adult daughter. The daughter said she first saw Jenkins as she was sitting on the steps. He asked her for a dollar, she said, and when she refused, he allegedly started trying to grab her buttocks. When she told him to leave, the woman told Mercier, Jenkins said he was going to steal a car.

The car’s owners then saw Jenkins getting into their car. The husband said he saw Jenkins taking change from the center console, and when Jenkins started to leave, the owner followed him, knowing the police were en route.

Mercier charged Jenkins with assault and attempted theft because Mercier believed Jenkins was trying to grab the woman to make her give him money.

Dearing reported that a clerk at Young’s Market down the street had seen Jenkins leave his store in a hurry just before the burglary and assault. The clerk said Jenkins had been handling some batteries, and when the clerk looked up, the batteries were gone and Jenkins was on his way out.

Three packs of batteries, valued at $10.47, were found on Jenkins, Dearing said. Dearing charged Jenkins with theft.

Officer Jordan reported Jenkins spat on him while getting out of the cruiser at the jail. A corrections officer sprayed Jenkins with mace, Dearing said. Dearing also charged Jenkins with assault, refusing to submit to arrest and burglary to a motor vehicle.

A woman was arrested by Bangor police on an assault charge after she allegedly assaulted her husband and another woman early Tuesday.

Officer Michael Brennan reported that at about 7 a.m. he went to the scene of a fight behind the former Rite Aid building on State Street and Broadway. Lt. Jeff Millard and Officer Josh Ouellette were there already, Brennan said, and told him that Kathy Betts, 36, of Bangor had admitted assaulting her husband and another woman there.

Brennan said Kathy Betts had some blood under her nose and scratches on her hands. Brennan arrested Bates, who told him she hadn’t touched her husband, but had pulled the other woman out of the car she and her husband were in. When Betts’ husband tried to keep her away from the woman, Betts said, she kicked him.

Brennan said the husband denied being struck by his wife.

Betts was charged with domestic assault. Brennan said police believe Kathy Betts originally heard police radio traffic saying that her husband was in a car with the woman when an officer found them there earlier that night.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball