Teen facing warrants gives police the slip

A teenage girl facing active warrants and her adult companion eluded county law enforcement Monday afternoon in Bangor.

Detective John Trask of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said he received information that the girl was staying at Motel 6 on Outer Hammond Street. Deputies had been trying to find the unnamed girl for days, Trask said, for her own safety and to take her into custody. She was reportedly traveling with a 21-year-old man, and they had stayed in at least four hotel rooms over the past five days.

Trask said he spoke with the girl through the door of their room at about 3:30 p.m. but had to wait to receive authorization to enter the room. When officials returned to the room with permission to enter, it was empty. Items belonging to the man and girl remained in the room.

Witnesses said the pair escaped out the back window onto a second-floor balcony, then climbed down a drainpipe. They reportedly crept through the adjoining woods and left in their car, which was parked nearby.

A Bangor man allegedly hit his girlfriend after she threw his ice auger on the ground Sunday night.

Bangor police Officer Ed Mercier reported that at about 9:15 p.m. he went to a Sunset Avenue apartment for an assault complaint. He met with a woman who had a swollen lip and a bloody nose.

The woman told Mercier that Scott Harvey, 24, of Bangor hit her in the face. She said they had decided he should move out, and she was carrying his things out of the apartment. She said she was carrying his ice auger and other fishing gear when he became angry and blocked her path. She threw the items on the lawn, she said, at which point Harvey grabbed her arm and hit her across the face.

Mercier said he went to the station to speak with Harvey, who was already there on his own initiative. Harvey denied touching the woman, he said, or even knowing about the injuries. Harvey said the woman actually assaulted him, but Mercier didn’t find any evidence of injury.

Harvey was arrested and charged with domestic assault.

An Orrington police cruiser was damaged in a traffic accident Monday afternoon in Bangor.

Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards reported that at about 4 p.m., a 2000 Ford sedan driven by Garbrielle Eastman, 19, of Bangor pulled onto State Street from a stop sign on Pine Street and into the path of an Orrington police cruiser driven by Orrington Constable Deputy William Gardner, 37, of Veazie.

Eastman’s car suffered $8,000 in front-end damage. The Orrington cruiser received $5,000 in damage.

Eastman said another driver on State Street had waved her through while she was waiting on Pine Street.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball