Bangor man charged in sword incident

A Bangor man who planned to fight a neighbor in the street Monday night as part of a dispute over child care called the police instead when the neighbor brandished a sword, according to police reports.

Delis E. Lane, 23, of Bangor was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon after police found a machetelike sword with a half-serrated blade that a Garland Street neighbor said Lane brought out after the two agreed to fight in the street.

Lane was apparently upset when he thought he saw a neighbor’s child playing in the street and confronted the neighbor about it, the neighbor told Bangor police Officer Chad Foley. Words were exchanged and when Lane’s threats to call the police or state agents didn’t get anywhere, the pair agreed to take it out to the street.

Lane returned to his apartment building and came out with a sword. He slammed it on the fire escape railing before heading down toward the neighbor. The neighbor went inside his home to call police.

Wanted on a warrant, Brandon Ogilvie, 27, of Bangor did what he could to escape a police officer chasing him on Tuesday.

Ogilvie was knocking on an apartment door on Griffin Road when he saw Bangor police Officer Rob Angelo pull up. Fleeing around the house, Ogilvie threw a hammer at the officer that missed the officer by about 10 feet but briefly slowed the pursuit. Angelo caught up with Ogilvie and tackled him by the corner of Griffin Road and Billing Drive.

As he was running, Ogilvie discarded objects from his pants pockets, although police still found a prescription bottle in one pocket. The unmarked bottle contained a marijuana pipe, marijuana and 21/2 pills. One of the pills was methadone HCL and the partial pill contained some oxycodone, Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan reported.

Ogilvie was charged with refusal to submit to arrest, possession of marijuana and possession of scheduled drugs.

A Bangor man said he was out drinking with a friend in downtown Bangor on Tuesday when the friend stole his bike. Bangor police Officer Rob Angelo caught up with the other man, Stephen Gonzalez, 41, and the bike at the Acadia Recovery Community on Indiana Avenue, where both men reside.

Gonzalez initially claimed it was his bike, but when he was told it was stolen, the man offered to return it, according to the police report. Gonzales was charged with theft and violation of bail conditions.

A Machiasport woman was treated at a Bangor hospital Tuesday night and later released, after the car she was driving struck a parked pickup truck hauling soil in Bangor.

Ashley Day, 19, could remember little of the accident that occurred about 12:20 p.m. on Essex Street, near Dewitt Avenue, according to the police report.

“All she could remember was hitting something and seeing a lot of dirt,” Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill wrote in his report.

Day suffered bruises and abrasions to her head and was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center. The driver of the pickup truck, Robert Spencer, 31, of Greenbush told police that he was in the truck eating his lunch when the accident occurred. He was not injured.

– COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER DOUG KESSELI