A Bangor couple wound up in police custody on Thursday after the woman assaulted police officers while her boyfriend was being arrested after he allegedly assaulted her, authorities said.

A third person was summoned after authorities said it appeared he was trying to incite further problems – putting officers at risk – during the incident, which occurred at about 5 p.m.

Police officers were called to the apartment for a report of a fight, and outside they heard a man telling a woman to shut up or he would kick her in the face again.

Boyd Brooks, 47, of Bangor claimed that nothing had happened, but he pushed Officer Rob Angelo when he went to talk to the woman, police said. Brooks struggled with police and they wrestled with him on the porch before taking him to the ground and handcuffing him.

The woman, Sylvia Campbell, 33, started screaming at police and even struck Sgt. Thomas Reagan in the head before she was taken into custody and placed in a cruiser, police said.

A man on the second-floor balcony began yelling at police to “stop beating up the lady,” according to police. He seemed to be agitating the situation, according to the police reports.

The man, identified as Teddy Henderson, 37, of Bangor, was taken into custody and summoned on a charge of disorderly conduct and released on his personal recognizance. He told police that earlier he mistakenly thought they were acting like the “brutal” police in Texas.

Brooks was charged with disorderly conduct and refusing to submit to arrest. Campbell, who later kicked out a cruiser door window, was charged with assault and aggravated criminal mischief.

Officer Paul Colley responded to a reported theft on Thursday at the Bangor Public Library.

A 2.4GHz broadband router and the AC power adapter that goes with it, worth approximately $1,000, had been removed from the library between 3 and 7 p.m. that day.

The computer equipment had been stripped of its security tag, or the library’s alarms would have gone off. The tag has not been found inside the library, but the router would have a mark on it where the tag would have been.

There are no suspects in the incident and local pawn shops and computer stores have been alerted and are on the lookout for the equipment.

A Bangor man was arrested on Thursday night after two police officers found him banging on doors at his 367 Broadway apartment building a 10:48 p.m.

Apparently intoxicated, Gordon Scott Thoms, 34, was found walking around outside the building. The officers tried to calm him down and told him to go inside and call it a night. He was given two warnings to quiet down because of the neighborhood surroundings when he became verbally abusive.

According to a resident in the building, Thoms had been banging on his doors and keeping him awake. Thoms had also been drinking and had been a problem within the past few weeks.

Thoms was arrested for disorderly conduct and transported to Penobscot County Jail.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Chelsey Ledue and Doug Kesseli