4 charged in assault on man

HERMON – Four Bangor men have been charged in connection with the severe beating of a Hermon man, who remained in fair condition at a Bangor hospital Monday, one day after the alleged assault.

Joseph Bailey, 27, Christopher Dupuis, 20, Daniel Dwelley, 19, and Shane Goggins, 29, were all charged with aggravated assault and aggravated criminal trespass for the incident that occurred at a Crab Apple Lane home in Hermon early Sunday morning.

The four men entered the home about 4:30 a.m. Sunday and repeatedly pummeled and kicked the 27-year-old man who lived there with his girlfriend, the former girlfriend of Goggins, Trooper Forrest Simpson said Monday.

The man’s upper jaw was broken, possibly his lower jaw as well and he lost several teeth, suffered internal injuries and required many stitches on his face, Simpson said.

“It looked like he had been hit by a car, to me,” Simpson said.

The man was listed in fair condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center, a hospital nursing supervisor reported Monday evening.

After the incident, the injured man managed to get to a neighbor’s home where he was driven to the Bangor hospital.

The attack was in retaliation against the man Goggins said had assaulted his girlfriend, who has a 7-year-old child with Goggins. The beating victim has an 8-week-old child with the woman.

The girlfriend was home at the time of the assault but didn’t witness it, she told the trooper at Eastern Maine Medical Center. She said she had a verbal argument with her boyfriend and that Goggins had blown things out of proportion.

The girlfriend showed no signs of being assaulted, although Simpson said the woman did complain at the hospital of a sore shoulder from when she said the men forced her into the car after the assault. Authorities interviewed the men separately Sunday, and they reported that the woman went willingly, the trooper said.