A Bangor man riding a Harley-Davidson came too close to the pavement for comfort on Odlin Road on Sunday morning.

Richard Ellis, 62, had a green light to proceed at 10:15 a.m., but so did another driver. In order to avoid a collision, Ellis leaned his bike on the side, scraping the pavement with his body.

While his efforts to avoid a vehicular accident were successful, Ellis suffered bodily harm. He had road rash, a possible concussion and a possible shoulder injury, according to police reports.

He was transported to Eastern Maine Medical Center, where he was treated and then released, according to EMMC officials.

Ellis was wearing a helmet.

Bangor police are looking for a purse snatcher who robbed an elderly woman at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

An 84-year-old woman had parked her car on Water Street near the Freese’s Assisted Living building. When she left the car unattended and unlocked for a moment to assist her sister, a thief grabbed the purse from inside the car. The purse contained $23, her checkbook and a wallet with her license and medical cards.

Police reported that there was more activity than usual in the area because of a Pickering Square political rally.

Brewer police broke up a violent domestic fight between two transients near Allstate Insurance on State Street on Friday night.

Officers responding to a call allegedly found Jesse Prentice, 23, pinning a 21-year-old woman to the ground and hitting her with his right hand.

After he was restrained by officers and placed in handcuffs in the police car, Prentice reportedly banged his head against the cage inside the car.

Prentice was arrested for domestic assault and remains in Penobscot County Jail.

A 911 misdial led Brewer police straight to a motel room where the occupant had stockpiled small amounts of illegal drugs.

Marsha Freeman, 36, a Bangor transient, could not explain the 911 call that came from her room at the Stable Inn on Wilson Street, but she encouraged the investigating officer to check out the room and bathroom to make sure all was OK.

Officer Paul Gauvin noticed a marijuana pipe on the nightstand by the bed and could smell freshly burned marijuana in the air. He asked Freeman where her stash of the drug was, and she grabbed a baggie of it from the nightstand.

Gauvin saw other baggies near the nightstand and found that those contained Vicodin, prescription antihistamines and another usable amount of marijuana.

Freeman was arrested for possession of Schedule W drugs.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Abigail Curtis