BANGOR – A Bangor man remained in the Penobscot County Jail on Wednesday night on a probation hold, one day after he allegedly forced his way into his former girlfriend’s home and threatened her with a knife in his search for money.

Brandon Gillespie, 26, faces numerous charges from the incident on Elm Street on Tuesday night. He is being held without bail.

Gillespie forced his way into an apartment of his former girlfriend who was there with her grandson, claiming the girlfriend’s daughter owed him money, Bangor police Officer Dennis Townsend reported.

Gillespie began ransacking the apartment in search of the money and pulled out a knife and began stabbing at the 44-year-old woman, although he struck a coffee table instead, bending the knife in half, Townsend reported.

Twice he ripped a telephone cord out of the wall preventing the woman from calling the police, according to the police report.

He left, taking a backpack full of beer and a machete with him, according to the police report, although Townsend found him hiding nearby. Concerned that Gillespie had a knife on him, Townsend ordered the man to the ground at gunpoint.

“Shoot me,” Gillespie demanded, according to Bangor police Officer James Dearing, who arrived to assist. Dearing used pepper spray to convince Gillespie to drop to the ground and comply with the officers’ efforts to handcuff him.

Gillespie was charged with robbery, burglary, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, domestic assault, refusal to submit to an arrest or detention, and possession of a Schedule W drug.

Corrections officers at the jail reported finding a pill crusher and pill on Gillespie as well as the woman’s house keys.