A mother and son who were fighting in Glenburn were both taken into custody Sunday night after a Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy had to fend off the mother when the deputy tried to arrest her son.

Perley Delano III, 48, of Glenburn was charged with assaulting his mother, Charlotte Delano, 67, of Kenduskeag and he also was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants after it was reported he tried to drive away when Deputy Liz Kelley arrived.

The deputy used her cruiser to block Delano’s exit from the Hastey Lane driveway and went to arrest the man who moments earlier had been scuffling with his mother and punching her in the chest, Kelley said Monday.

The mother didn’t want Kelley to arrest her son and told her so. Things escalated as Kelley got the son out of his car and tried to put him into her cruiser. She said the mother yelled at her, got close to her and kept getting in the way.

“She was pretty much on me,” Kelley said.

When Kelley tried to get her to move back, the woman pushed her, the deputy said. The mother was charged with assault on a police officer and obstructing governmental administration.

Two men witnessed an apparently intoxicated motorist back into a light pole in a parking lot late Sunday night, and after he hit a parked pickup truck, they stepped in and took away his keys.

Authorities in Bangor were alerted to the incident by one of the witnesses, who called on a cellular phone at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, giving police a play-by-play of what was happening. The man appeared intoxicated and had difficulty getting into his SUV in the parking lot of the Broadway Shopping Center, one of the men told police.

The motorist allegedly backed into a light pole and hit a parked pickup truck, and the witnesses grabbed his keys from him when he stopped, reported Bangor police Officer Rob Angelo. The allegedly errant motorist was identified as Morey Hayes, 50, of Glenburn and Officer Josh Ouellette reported the motorist was too intoxicated to perform field sobriety tests. Hayes was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center to have a blood sample taken.

Minor injuries – largely complaints of neck pain – were reported after a motor vehicle accident on Maine Avenue in Bangor on Monday afternoon.

Martha Kennedy, 30, of Hermon was stopped on Maine Avenue at about 2:40 p.m. preparing to turn left onto Texas Avenue in her van when she was rear-ended by a car driven by Gloria Jordan, 53, of Kenduskeag. Kennedy and two passengers, Christina Bailey, 10, and Stephen Bailey, 12, no addresses available, complained of neck pain, Bangor police Officer Chris Blanchard reported.

Jordan and her passenger and a third passenger in Kennedy’s car reported no injuries. Damage to Jordan’s 2000 Oldsmobile was reported to be about $3,500 while damage to Kennedy’s 1994 Dodge van was estimated at $1,000.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli