Pair summoned for assault in dog trespassing dispute

Bangor police summoned two Bangor men on assault charges after a dispute Tuesday morning over a dog walking on someone’s property.

Charles Robshaw, 56, said he became upset after seeing a woman walking her dog on his property in Pray’s Trailer Park, at about 8:45 a.m. He admitted to pushing the woman, but told Bangor police Officer Paul Colley that it was to get her off his property where she had been walking with her dog.

A man who was walking with the woman then approached Robshaw and struck him several times, Robshaw said.

Colley interviewed the man, identified as Dana Tirrell, who denied striking Robshaw. The woman said Robshaw had approached them and pushed her, almost knocking her over.

Colley summoned both men and he reported that the woman and Robshaw both complained about back pain from the incident and that they requested an ambulance.

A motorist whose car slid off Finson Road in Bangor and ended up in some trees early Tuesday morning was intoxicated, according to police.

William T. Guthrie, 40, of Corinth was driving toward Broadway about 1:40 a.m. when the 1994 Cadillac went off the road, according to Bangor police Officer Shawn Green. The officer located Guthrie walking away from the scene of the accident and Guthrie was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

As part of conditions of bail and because of a protection order, Wendy Spaulding, 46, wasn’t supposed to have any contact with her estranged husband. But police found them sitting at the kitchen table together in a South Park Street home on Monday.

Spaulding had apparently asked her estranged husband to help her move into the residence, even though such contact was prohibited. Authorities had been tipped off that the two were seen together again. Upon investigating, Officer Douglas Moore reported seeing Spaulding through a window as she sat with her estranged husband in the kitchen.

Spaulding was charged with violation of a protection from abuse order and violation of conditions of release.

Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli