Man charged with hitting wife with car

A Bangor man was arrested early Saturday morning on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after he reportedly used a car to back into a woman, sending her flying into a parked car.

Richard Rideout, 20, showed up at a Dirigo Drive residence where his estranged wife was visiting friends and threatened her, Bangor police Officer Kerry Libby wrote in her police report.

Rideout later told police he was there only to serve his wife divorce papers.

Witnesses, however, said Rideout came into the residence and told his wife he was going to kill her. Rideout then argued with several other people before leaving.

One of the witnesses, a 29-year-old woman, followed Rideout outside and tried to stop him from leaving in his vehicle. She told Libby that Rideout deliberately backed his car into her, the police report stated, but the woman was not seriously injured.

Witnesses told Libby that she could find Rideout at an apartment building on Ohio Street. When police arrived, Rideout answered the door and admitted to going to the Dirigo Drive residence and speaking with his wife. Libby charged him with felony assault with a deadly weapon.

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A Baileyville man waiting to board a plane Saturday at Bangor International Airport didn’t quite make it after Transportation Security Administration officials found cocaine in his possession.

William B. Leighton, 53, twice failed to pass through a magnetometer at the airport, according to a Bangor Police Department report.

When Leighton emptied his pockets, a small vial of cocaine fell out of a handkerchief. The man admitted to TSA officials that it was cocaine and said he forgot that it was there, the police report stated.

Security personnel searched Leighton’s bags but found nothing further. He was charged with possession of a Schedule W drug.

Leighton reportedly was on his way to Brunswick, Ga., to visit his wife.

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A Brewer man is facing serious charges after an incident Friday night where he reportedly hit a boy on a bicycle with his car, which he allegedly was driving while intoxicated.

Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan went to the scene of a car-bicycle accident shortly before 8 p.m. Friday at the corner of Fourth and Union streets and found a 14-year-old Ellsworth boy lying in the street injured.

After the boy was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Jordan spoke with the driver of a 1994 Mercury sedan, Howard V. Williams, 40.

Williams reportedly hit the boy as he was turning left onto Union Street from Fourth Street, but told Jordan he didn’t see the biker until it was too late.

Williams initially denied drinking anything but then told Jordan he had two beers. An intoxilyzer test found his blood-alcohol level at more than two times the legal limit, Jordan’s police report stated.

Williams was charged with operating under the influence and violating bail conditions. The officer said Sunday night that the boy was still in the hospital he but didn’t know the extent of his injuries.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Eric Russell