A transient man was issued a summons for assault Tuesday morning, after he allegedly approached a man from behind who was sitting on a bench outside the Bangor Public Library and struck him over the head with a stick.

Joseph Perham, 51, told Bangor police Officers Paul Colley and Larry Morrill that he struck the 52-year-old man because the man makes origami paper figures at the library on a daily basis with a small paper cutter.

Perham said he did not believe the man should be allowed to do this in the library and he had to do something about it.

When the victim tried to enter the library after the attack to call the police, Perham stood in his way and told the man he would kill him if he continued to make things out of paper in the library, according to the police report.

The man who was struck had two lacerations on the top of his head and was bleeding, according to police reports. He was not taken to the hospital.

A man looking out the window on the third floor of the library witnessed the incident, which also was recorded on the library’s surveillance cameras.

A Massachusetts man was charged with operating while under the influence of intoxicants in Orono early Tuesday morning and later was escorted by officers from the Pushaw Lake campground after several neighboring campers reported excessive partying in his cabin.

Rafael Melo, 34, of Fall River, Mass., and Chad Cruz, 21, of Brockton, Mass., were attempting to push a vehicle out of a ditch near the intersection of Orono Landing Road and Forest Avenue when Sgt. Josh Ewing and Officer Derek Dinsmore arrived at the scene.

According to Melo, who was operating the vehicle, the two men had been driving from the Pushaw Lake Campground on the Orono Landing Road when another vehicle ran them off the road.

Ewing and Dinsmore observed 40 feet of tire marks on the Orono Landing Road, which led directly to Melo’s vehicle.

Police suspect high speed was a factor in the accident. Cruz told Ewing that he thought Melo had been driving at 60 mph before the car skidded into the ditch, according to Ewing. The speed limit on that road is 25 mph.

Melo admitted he had been drinking, and upon failing a sobriety test was charged with OUI. He was transported to Penobscot County Jail, and posted bail later that morning.

Orono police are trying to reconstruct the accident. If they can prove that a high rate of speed was involved, Melo could be charged with driving to endanger, which is a criminal offense, according to Ewing.

Orono police received a call around 2 p.m. the same day from an employee at the Pushaw Lake Campground, requesting that several people be removed from the property.

When Orono police Officer Wilfred King and Sgt. Scott Scripture arrived at the campground they discovered that Cruz and Melo, along with two women and several children, had been asked to leave at 11 a.m. but were still occupying a cabin.

Police escorted Cruz, Melo and the others off the property.

– COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER KAILEE BRADSTREET