Man charged in emergency worker assault

It took two paramedics and one police officer to restrain a man Monday evening after he was found apparently passed out on top of a delivery van behind the Penobscot Plaza in Bangor.

Paramedics used a ladder to help remove Jason Barron, 33, of Bangor from the van, but as they prepared to take him to the hospital, he awoke, punching one paramedic in the head and later biting another on the hand. A paramedic reported that the bite didn’t break the skin as a Kevlar sleeve from his jacket had been pulled over his hand and protected him, according to the police report.

Bangor police Officer Josh Ouellette reported that Barron continued to be combative, even at the hospital where officials used a net restraint to hold him. Barron was charged with criminal mischief, refusing to submit to an arrest and two counts of assault on an emergency medical care provider.

Authorities had been called to the plaza for reports of a man breaking bottles.

Bangor police charged Shawn Floyd, 20, of Bangor with domestic assault early Tuesday morning after it was reported he punched his live-in girlfriend, knocking her down.

The pair apparently had been arguing over a cellular phone call and the argument spilled outside their residence where it apparently became more heated. The woman said that Floyd punched her, knocking her to the ground. Floyd then punched her again, although the woman could remember little else, according to Bangor police Officer Brandon Vafiades.

She also said that she had punched Floyd.

The woman’s sister said she didn’t see any punches thrown, but that when she had looked outside she saw her sister on the ground and Floyd on top of her.

The injured woman’s left eye was swollen and she said her vision in that eye was blurred.

Floyd was taken to Penobscot County Jail and later made bail.

Four people were injured Tuesday when they were involved in a three-vehicle accident on Coldbrook Road.

The accident occurred about 8 a.m. near the southbound on ramp of Interstate 95 where a car had slowed to turn onto the ramp, Hampden Deputy Fire Chief Mike Andersen said Tuesday afternoon.

A second vehicle rear-ended the first vehicle then hit a guardrail and struck a third vehicle, a pickup truck, he said. Four occupants of the vehicles were taken to a hospital for what Andersen said were mostly complaints of neck and back pain.

Andersen said that road conditions were slick at the time of the accident.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli