Eddington resident charged with OUI, driving to endanger

An Eddington woman was arrested Saturday night for allegedly operating under the influence of alcohol and for driving to endanger after repeatedly slamming her car into a Bangor man’s vehicle.

Officer Chad Foley reportedly spoke with the driver and passengers of the car that was hit. The driver said he had gone to see friends at a Center Street residence, and Megan McGraw, 20, of Eddington was there. The man said McGraw assaulted him after he told her he wanted nothing to do with her, and the man then got into his car to drive away.

McGraw got into her car and began to ram it into the man’s vehicle. She then drove up against him on Center Street and sideswiped his side view mirror, though she did not cause any monetary damage to the vehicle. All three passengers in the car witnessed and confirmed the events.

Sgt. Paul Edwards of the Bangor Police Department pulled over McGraw at the corner of State Street and Broadway after seeing her sideswipe the car. McGraw was visibly intoxicated and was arrested and taken to Penobscot County Jail for an breathalyzer test.

She was charged with operating under the influence, driving to endanger and felony violation of conditional release, stemming from a thwarted April burglary on Hammond Street in Bangor. That event led to the discovery of a drug laboratory and bomb-making material. McGraw was reportedly the driver of the getaway car that was to be used in the botched burglary.

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An altercation on First Street on Friday night resulted in the arrest of a Bangor man.

According to a police report, Officers Shawn Green and Dennis Townshend of the Bangor Police Department were on bicycle patrol and were approached by a man in a truck who said a crowd of people was fighting on First Street.

Green and Townshend went to the scene and saw two men standing near 84 First St. The men ran when they saw the officers. Officer Townshend intercepted Richard “Sonny” Dever and told him to freeze, as he reportedly reached into his pockets. The other man escaped.

Soon afterward, a man with a bloody lip approached the officers, claiming to have been assaulted and then threatened with a stick and a 7- to 9-inch-long knife during an earlier altercation. The victim identified Dever as one of the men who assaulted him and claimed the other man was Jeremy LaRochelle. A witness to the fight confirmed this, police said.

Townshend and Green went to LaRochelle’s friend’s residence on Center Street, where the victim believed LaRochelle was staying. A woman said LaRochelle was in the apartment, and soon LaRochelle came out into the street. The victim identified him as the man who assaulted him.

Dever was given a summons for assault, and LaRochelle was taken to Penobscot County Jail, where he was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and violation of conditional release stemming from a previous incident.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Emily Burnham