Police say Bangor man, 20, forced way into home, took whiskey, resisted arrest

A Bangor man was charged Wednesday with robbery and resisting arrest after he reportedly forced his way into a Union Street home, took a bottle of liquor and then fled from police.

Bangor police Officer Daniel Herrick went to the area of 13th Street Park off Union Street at about 7 p.m. on a report of public intoxication. Herrick warned a young shirtless man, later identified as Stephen Nason, 20, to leave the area.

About 45 minutes later, according to the officer’s report, Herrick received word that the same shirtless man had entered the home of a Union Street resident and stole a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey.

The homeowner later told police that she knew the suspect and that Nason first asked to use the phone before barging through the doorway.

Herrick caught up with Nason not far from the Union Street home, at which point the man dropped the whiskey bottle and took off on foot. Several officers surrounded the area, and with the help of a police dog, they located Nason underneath a trailer near 14th Street.

Nason was being held Thursday night at Penobscot County Jail on $500 bail.

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Bangor police issued three summonses Wednesday after a car accident in the parking lot of a city pool escalated into a fight that sent two people to the hospital.

The incident has been assigned to the Bangor Police Department’s detective division. Detective Sgt. Jim Hodges said Thursday that he wasn’t sure exactly what happened because everyone involved was telling a different story.

Police do know that a car driven by Roger Meserve, 23, of Bangor struck a parked car and then a tree in the parking area of the Beth Pancoe Municipal Aquatic Center. Meserve was charged with driving to endanger.

A fight then broke out, but it was unclear how it started or who was involved. Two men, Jeremy Wasson, 18, and Joseph Bolt, 22, both of Bangor, were charged with assault. Bolt and Meserve were injured and were taken Wednesday afternoon to Eastern Maine Medical Center. Hodges did not know the extent of their injuries.

The case remains under investigation.

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Brewer police took a 23-year-old Orrington woman into custody Thursday but not before she swallowed some pills and landed herself in the hospital.

Brewer police Sgt. Jason Moffitt was stopped at a Mobil gas station on North Main Street on Thursday afternoon when he recognized the passenger in a car that also had stopped. Moffitt said he thought there was a warrant for the passenger, Dawn Thibodeau, which she denied, saying the matter had been cleared up.

It had not, and hearing police dispatch confirm the warrant on the radio as she stood outside the car smoking, Thibodeau reached inside the car, grabbed some pills from the seat and swallowed them, the Brewer sergeant said.

Moffitt arrested her, but took her to the hospital first. A search of the woman’s purse uncovered a pill Brewer police identified as Xanax, and Thibodeau faces a charge of possession of a Schedule Y drug.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Eric Russell and Doug Kesseli