September 21, 2024
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Bat-wielding tenant charged with disorderly conduct

Upset at his landlord, Michael Albert, 29, of Bangor took his anger out on his apartment inside and out early Friday, prompting police to respond and arrest him.

According to police, a shirtless and intoxicated Albert used a baseball bat to hit anything in sight. A neighbor, disturbed by the noise level coming from Albert’s Hammond Street apartment, confronted Albert and told him to “shut up” because neighbors couldn’t sleep due to the clamor.

Further angered by the neighbor, Albert allegedly shattered a window of the neighbor’s residence. When police approached Albert, he denied breaking any property that wasn’t his, the report stated.

Officers took Albert to Penobscot County Jail and charged him with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Police estimated the cost of the window at $50.

A motorist ran a red light on Main Street in Bangor early Friday afternoon and was struck by another driver, causing extensive damage to both vehicles but no injuries.

Christopher Patrick, 18, and his wife, Alicia, 20, of Portsmouth, N.H., were in a red 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse headed toward the Interstate 395 interchange when he sped through a red light and was struck by an SUV driven by James Churchill, 44, of Hampden.

Churchill was turning right from Buck Street onto Main Street in the SUV with a passenger and didn’t notice that Patrick’s car had run the red light, Churchill told Bangor police Officer Myron Warner. Patrick told police he wasn’t paying attention to the light.

Everyone was wearing seat belts and no injuries were reported, according to police. An estimated $4,000 damage was done to Patrick’s car and $2,000 to the SUV. Patrick was issued a summons on a charge of failure to provide proof of insurance.

Orono police charged a Newport man with drunken driving early Friday morning after the motorist was seen driving erratically and pulled into a closed parking lot.

Orono police Officer Derek Dinsmore reported seeing a motorist leave the Ushuaia club about 1:44 a.m. and head south on Main Street where the officer saw the vehicle drift to the centerline and later cut quickly into the right lane without signaling. The motorist turned into the parking lot of the U.S. Post Office, which is closed at that time of night.

The officer determined that the driver, Ronald Dube, 23, was impaired, and at the police station Dube’s blood alcohol level registered 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

– COMPILED BY BDN WRITERS DOUG KESSELI, TIM ROBERTSON AND JENNIFER L. NELSON


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