Police find driver who fled accident Anonymous tip, license plate at scene lead officers to Glenburn man

In his haste to get away from a three-vehicle accident in Bangor on Thursday, a Glenburn man left behind a license plate that had fallen from his SUV.

That plate, along with an anonymous tip, helped Bangor police locate Robert Frost, 25, one day later in Hampden, where he was summoned for leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, operating a motor vehicle after license suspension and being a habitual offender.

The license plate led authorities to Frost’s home on the Hudson Road in Glenburn, although the people there were evasive and uncooperative, and Frost was not found, according to the police report.

An anonymous tipster told police to check Crestwood Mobile Home park in Hampden, where on Friday Bangor police Officer Russell Twaddell found Frost and the heavily damaged SUV.

Frost told the officer that the day before, he was fiddling with the radio when he struck the Chevrolet van that was stopped ahead of him on Broadway. The van, driven by Hannah Hodsdon, 26, of Hampden, then ran into a small school bus driven by Lois Woodward, 34, of Carmel, who complained of neck and back pain.

In response to recent concerns of drinking in Pickering Square, the Bangor Police Department bike patrol and the Special Enforcement Team combined efforts Thursday evening and arrested two local men for drinking in public.

Thomas Huth, 34, of Veazie and Joseph Hartel, 22, of Bangor were arrested near the corner of West Market and Water Street for drinking alcoholic beverages from yellow disposable cups.

A member of the SET saw Huth and Hartel fill the yellow cups with alcohol and then drink from them. The SET called in the bike patrol to initiate the arrest.

“That stuff was there; we were not drinking it,” Hartel told police.

Searching Hartel’s duffel bag, police found a full bottle of alcohol, which matched an empty bottle lying on the sidewalk. Each man was arrested after the SET confirmed their identities.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Toni-Lynn Robbins and Doug Kesseli