Sleeping Bangor man hurt in baseball bat attack

A Bangor man was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor early Monday morning after a group of unidentified people entered a Newbury Street apartment where he was sleeping and hit him in the head with a baseball bat.

Police had gone to the same residence Sunday evening after receiving a report that people with weapons had been at the apartment. When they arrived 20 people scattered in all directions, according to police reports.

Bangor police Officer Brandon Vafiades arrived at the Newbury Street residence at 3:30 a.m. Monday and found a 22-year-old male who was bleeding from a laceration on his head. The man told Vafiades that a group of people had entered the apartment and hit him over the head with a baseball bat while he was sleeping.

Glass on the apartment’s door was broken, according to police reports.

Vafiades talked with a 29-year-old man who lives at the apartment. The man said that he suspects the assault had something to do with a dispute the men’s mutual friend had had in the past, according to police reports.

He said that he believed the same group had broken into his apartment the previous day.

Bangor police are still investigating the assault.

A Brewer man was arrested Monday after he was found in possession of scheduled drugs near Hammond Lumber Co. in Bangor.

Daniel McComb, 21, was accompanied by a 15-year-old girl from Bangor, whose family had reported her missing last Wednesday.

Bangor police Officer Paul Colley found the teenager hiding behind a log cabin at Hammond Lumber, according to police reports. Colley then noticed McComb approaching him with both hands in his pocket.

Bangor officer Edward A. Mercier, who also went to the scene, asked McComb to remove his hands from his pockets so that he could place him in handcuffs, but McComb resisted several times.

When officers searched the man they found a small white pill, which later was identified as methadone.

McComb was taken to Penobscot County Jail. The girl was returned to her family.

A Hudson man was arrested Sunday after an ATV stolen two days earlier from a Glenburn salvage business was discovered outside the man’s house.

Herbert Porter Simonds, 18, was charged with burglary and felony theft, Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Jared Austin said Monday.

Austin was called to the Marston Meadow Road about 6 p.m. Friday after a family member noticed the $3,000 all-terrain vehicle that his family had for sale being hauled away in a pickup truck and initially thought it had been sold. Checking with his family, he learned it had not.

Austin and the family searched the area, but couldn’t find the truck.

On Sunday, the same man who saw the pickup truck Friday saw it again passing BJ’s Market, and the man followed the pickup truck to Simonds’ home in Hudson. Austin said the ATV was located behind a small shed, covered with a tarp.

COMPILED BY BDN REPORTERS KAILEE BRADSTREET AND DOUG KESSELI