Baileyville man’s anger leads to charges

CALAIS – A 20-year-old Baileyville man who allegedly terrorized his former girlfriend and threatened to kill her and cut the throats of her landlord and his children was arrested Wed-nesday.

“I was arrested for terrorizing a junkie crack head,” Louis Lucas yelled while being placed in a cruiser by Calais police before being transferred to the Washington County jail in Machias.

“Put that in the paper,” Lucas insisted several times and even stopped to pose.

It all began Wednesday night when Lucas, who had broken up with his girlfriend a few weeks earlier, continued to call her apartment on Monroe Street in Calais and allegedly threatened her. The couple used to live together in Pennsylvania.

“[Wednesday] night he called numerous times indicating that he was coming down to Calais with a knife and a gun and he’s going to kill her, the landlord and his two children,” Calais police Officer Claude Chabre said Wednesday. “And burn the house down with them in it.”

Chabre said the landlord got involved when Lucas tried to visit his ex-girlfriend’s apartment on several occasions and he ordered Lucas to leave. “The landlord got in the middle of his arguments with his ex-girlfriend and that’s why [Lucas] made the threat to kill the landlord and his two children and cut their throats,” Chabre added.

Asked why Lucas made reference to a “junkie crack head,” Chabre said he did not know if there was a drug connection to the case. He referred those questions to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Chabre contacted the

Baileyville Police Department and asked them to arrest Lucas for terrorizing. He also was out on bail on a pending theft charge from Rite Aide in Calais.

Wednesday morning, the scene shifted to Baileyville where Lucas was staying. Around 7:45 a.m. Baileyville police went to a residence on Hillside Street. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency who happened to be in Baileyville also went along.

“Louis refused to open the door or answer the phone. So … we went and got a family member that lived at that residence who allowed us to open the residence and go in,” Baileyville Police Chief Phil Harriman said Wednesday.

Harriman declined to say whether police went in with weapons drawn, but a source at the scene said police were armed and ready. The chief said it took about 45 minutes before Lucas was taken into custody. “It went down peacefully and no one was hurt,” he said.

Lucas, who is expected to appear in 4th District Court in Calais today, was charged with terrorizing, telephone harassment and bail violation.