A Stonington man already out on bail for one drunken driving arrest faces more charges this week after Bangor police said he was intoxicated when he caused back-to-back accidents Wednesday.

Bangor police charged Stephen B. Tracy, 72, with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, operating a motor vehicle after license suspension and violation of condition of release.

A Hampden motorist was heading south on Maine Avenue about 6:15 p.m. when a car driven by Tracy in the opposite direction crossed the centerline and headed right for her, she told Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan. Despite her best efforts to pull to the right, the Hampden motorist, Suzanne King, 38, said Tracy hit her car.

Tracy drove off, but his involvement doesn’t end there, according to the police report. He turned around and drove back toward King’s car. In the meantime, another motorist, Joseph Everett, 22, of Carmel, stopped to give King a hand and pulled in behind her car.

Tracy headed right for Everett’s car, rear-ended it and forced it forward into King’s car, the report said.

Minor injuries were reported. Tracy was taken to Penobscot County Jail.

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An Essex Street woman told Bangor police Monday that her friend slapped her on the face during an argument over the death penalty verdict of Scott Peterson.

The 42-year-old woman said her friend, Raymond Rolls, 35, a transient, had gotten off the phone with his boss when she informed him about the verdict against Peterson, the California man convicted Nov. 12 of killing his wife, Laci, and the fetus she was carrying.

She said Rolls told her that she was wrong and didn’t know how the system worked, then proceeded to berate her, according to the police report.

Rolls slapped the woman on the left side of her face, leaving red marks and rupturing a blood vessel in her eye, reported Bangor police Officer Brandon Vafiades.

Rolls was located walking on Essex Street and summoned.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Doug Kesseli, Emily Burnham and Jackie Farwell