Police arrest man for alleged stalking

A Bucksport man indicted in recent months for stalking was arrested in Bangor on Thursday after it was reported he repeatedly drove past where his former girlfriend works.

As part of a protection from abuse order issued against him, Jeffrey Witham, 29, was not to come within the vicinity of Hollywood Slots in Bangor, where his former girlfriend works.

Yet the former girlfriend and a co-worker told Bangor police Officer Kerry Libby that they both saw Witham drive past the gambling facility at the corner of Larkin and Main streets Thursday night.

Witham, who was indicted in October for stalking, violating a protection order and burglary all in connection with his former girlfriend, denied being in Bangor at all that night.

He also claimed that he had been with his father, although he refused to give police his father’s phone number, according to the police report.

His father called police later to support his son’s claim, telling Libby that he had been with his son all afternoon and evening.

The former girlfriend and the co-worker said there had been just one man inside the Maroon Cadillac they had seen, which the former girlfriend said belonged to Witham’s father.

The incident was enough to violate the protection order, a Penobscot County prosecutor told police. Witham was arrested by Bucksport police officers, who turned him over to Libby and Officer Josh Ouellette, who brought him to Penobscot County Jail. Witham was also charged with violating bail conditions as he was out on bail at the time of the incident.

A Glenwood Drive resident called Orono police early Friday to report a suspicious incident. She contacted police shortly before 10 a.m. to report a man driving a pickup truck with a plow attachment had stopped outside her house earlier that morning to take pictures of the home with a disposable camera.

Orono police Officer Casey Miller searched the area but didn’t find the pickup truck. Miller also contacted town officials to see if they had an explanation, including whether any town officials were out taking pictures on official town business. She was told that was not the case.

– Compiled by BDN reporter

Doug Kesseli