A man and a woman were hospitalized for stab wounds Tuesday night after a domestic dispute at a Bangor apartment escalated and a steak knife was wielded during the fight.

A Bangor police detective is expected to resume the investigation today and sort out what happened Tuesday night inside the Union Street apartment. Police were called there twice; the first time they found nothing, but about an hour later at 10 p.m., they found the man outside with stab wounds, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards reported.

The man was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center for what Officer James Dearing said was four stab wounds, one to each of his arms, one to his chest and the most serious to the man’s abdomen. Dearing said the wounds were not life threatening.

The woman was found inside, and she had at least one stab wound. With an ambulance crew around her, the woman walked out of the apartment and into the ambulance on her own. She was seen holding her arms down as she walked.

Edwards said that the two were boyfriend and girlfriend and that both were reported to have been drinking that night.

A Bangor man who stuffed a 40-ounce beer down the front of his baggy pants while in a convenience store Monday night noticed too late that he was being watched.

Ransford Bubar, 18, had been busy watching the clerk at the Webber Corner Mini Mart on Ohio Street while Bangor police Officer Dan Herrick, parked in a cruiser, watched him through the store window. After Bubar turned and saw the officer watching him, he then looked back and forth between the clerk and officer.

Herrick said Bubar then moved away from the cooler and headed to the stack of potato chips at the end of an aisle, where the officer confronted him and found the beer, hidden in the display. Bubar was charged with theft.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli