Medical emergency leads to drug charge against Bangor man

A Bangor man who was being treated for a possible drug overdose early Monday morning had a prescription bottle for cat medications that contained pills intended for humans.

Called to a Center Street apartment at 5:25 a.m., authorities were told that Damon Bisacre, 20, had just shown up and had a seizure, reported Bangor police Officer Shawn Green.

As a Bangor Fire Department ambulance crew prepared Bisacre to be taken to the hospital, Green checked the man’s jacket and found a prescription bottle labeled Orbax, an antibiotic for felines. But inside, Green found five pills he recognized as oxycodone, the officer reported.

Inside the apartment Green found a hypodermic needle and spoon under a mattress that a resident claimed Bisacre had left behind.

At St. Joseph Hospital, Bisacre admitted he had used cocaine a few hours earlier, although Green stated that it appeared he had used the drug more recently than that based on the man’s heart rate and condition.

Bisacre was charged with unlawful possession of a Schedule W drug.

A Howland man who fought another man from Howland late Friday night in both Old Town and Orono was arrested on several charges.

Seth Colbath, 24, was riding through Old Town in an extended-cab pickup driven by another man when he accused the driver of putting his hand on his fiancee’s leg.

He told the man to pull over, and the two brawled in the middle of South Main Street.

Old Town police stopped the fight, calmed the group down and persuaded them to drop the woman off at her sister’s in Orono.

The peace lasted only until the group crossed the town line into Orono.

Colbath allegedly lunged from the extended cab’s back seat, choked the driver and said he was going to kill him.

Sgt. Travis Roy of the Old Town Police Department was following them and witnessed some of the second fight. He ordered everyone out of the truck.

The driver and the female passenger both got out of the vehicle, but Colbath didn’t leave until he had vomited all over the back seat.

He was arrested and charged with assault, criminal threatening, possession of a usable amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Colbath was brought to Penobscot County Jail and was released on bail during the weekend.

– . –

Old Town and Orono police departments, with help from the Penobscot Nation police department, conducted two safety check roadblocks Friday night, stopping more than 250 vehicles and handing out more warnings than summonses.

The roadblocks on Rangeley Road in Orono and near the municipal lines on Route 2 were to remind motorists of the importance of driving sober and obeying other rules of the road, an Orono police official said.

During the four hours the roadblocks were in place, the officers looked for drivers who were impaired by intoxicants and performed quick safety checks, Orono Sgt. Josh Ewing said Sunday.

Violations they were looking for included not wearing seat belts, expired inspection stickers or registrations, and motor vehicle defects.

In some cases, the officers stopped a vehicle for a matter of seconds and then let it go. Others were stopped for a longer period of time and included one motorist who was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

Five people were charged with illegal possession of alcohol by a minor and one person was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Doug Kesseli and Abigail Curtis