Wanted man arrested after breaking hotel window

A Wednesday night fight at the Main Street Inn in Bangor resulted in one broken window and a wanted Lewiston man taken into custody.

Bangor police were called to the motel at about 11:35 p.m. for a report of a fight and Officer Edward A. Mercier arrived to find a window broken at Room 13 and a van driving off. Other officers stopped the vehicle down the street, across from Miller’s Restaurant. The van’s driver, Kenneth R. Hardy, 24, admitted to drinking earlier.

He also admitted to breaking the window, as evidenced by cuts on his left hand which he said came from breaking the glass, Mercier reported. The police also learned that Hardy’s license was suspended and that he was wanted on a warrant.

After field sobriety tests, Hardy was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle after license suspension, criminal mischief, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and for the warrant. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail.

Trying to break up a fight at Barnaby’s Nightclub in Bangor early Thursday morning, Bangor police Officer Paul Colley removed one combatant and returned to the fight scene. So did the man he removed.

Jimmy D. Ross Jr., 26, of Bangor had been one of the more aggressive of those fighting inside Barnaby’s, so Colley took him out to a hallway and told him not to return, the officer reported.

Colley then headed back to the fray that was still in progress, and as he was trying to break it up, Ross returned and resumed fighting. Colley arrested Ross on a charge of disorderly conduct.

A Finson Road man claimed Thursday that his girlfriend fell back onto the metal frame of a pullout couch, injuring herself. She said she was pushed.

Leonard Parla, 40, told police late Thursday morning that the night before he and his live-in girlfriend had been drinking and were high and that they argued. At one point, she removed his stereo from a high shelf and threw it to the floor. She then fell back and struck the metal frame, said Parla who showed Bangor police Officer Bill Lawrence red marks on his knuckles he said he got defending himself and a mark on the corner of his eye he said came from when she kicked him.

Parla said that he hadn’t called the police until Thursday morning because he thought that he and the woman had made up, according to the police report.

At St. Joseph Hospital, where the girlfriend was taken, Lawrence spoke with a hospital physician’s assistant who said the woman’s hip and forearm injuries were consistent with assault. The woman also said that Parla grabbed her and threw her down and later grabbed her arms to prevent her from leaving.

Parla was arrested and charged with assault.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli