Man arrested after allegedly threatening to stab another

Bangor police arrested a man Sunday night at his State Street apartment after he allegedly threatened to stab another man with an 8-inch serrated knife, according to police reports.

Christopher McCann, 48, of Bangor told police the man owed him $60 and he wanted the money. After McCann shouted homophobic names and other insults, he headed toward the man with a knife and came within two arms’ lengths of the victim before the man was able to duck into another apartment, the report stated, according to police reports.

Officers Butch Moor and Chad Foley went to the apartment complex at 6:30 p.m. and asked to enter McCann’s apartment. Initially, McCann told the officers they couldn’t do so without a warrant. The officers told him they could go get one, but McCann decided to let them in to talk about the incident, the report stated.

Officer Foley asked whether McCann had any knives, and McCann said he had a collection. In the collection was a knife with an 8-inch serrated blade. McCann was arrested without trouble and taken to Penobscot County Jail.

– COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER TIM ROBERTSON

A Bangor man ended up in the hospital early Monday morning after he opened the door to a stranger who started to beat and stab him.

The unknown assailant allegedly entered the Lincoln Street apartment between 1 and 2 a.m. and began his assault. The victim told Officer Jason McAmbley that the male began to punch him in the face and the head, then hit him over the head with a 40-ounce bottle of alcohol.

The victim was knocked out, and awoke to the man stabbing him in the right shoulder and threatening further harm if the victim continued to see his ex-girlfriend, according to the police report.

Police have no leads on who the assailant is, other than he is a 6-foot, 250-pound muscular white male with shaggy brown hair whom the victim had never seen before.