Bangor man accused of assaulting woman

A Bangor man was taken to the Penobscot County Jail and charged with assault on Monday after he allegedly hit his live-in girlfriend.

The victim walked into the Bangor Police Department around 1:30 p.m. Monday with a deep gash under her chin and lumps on her head. She said her boyfriend, Frederick Chambers, 45, had been hitting her all day.

She told police they had been drinking and when she asked permission to leave their Court Street apartment to purchase more beer, Chambers told her she could not. She said that she stood up to leave and Chambers dragged her back, began hitting her again and slammed her head into a futon.

After Chambers left the room to use the bathroom, his girlfriend said she left the house and went to the police station.

Bangor police Officer Paul Colley went to the couple’s residence to question Chambers. According to the police report, Chambers was uncooperative. He was arrested and taken to jail.

A woman contacted Bangor police on Aug. 24 saying that she had found a necklace at Frati’s Pawn Shop in Bangor that had been stolen from her months before.

The woman said that the jewelry, valued at approximately $380, had been missing for quite some time and she had just assumed that she had misplaced it.

She told police that she was an employee of Zales jewelry store and that she knew two of the same chains had been sold; she owned one and she knew the person who had the other. She said that the one in the case at the pawnshop must have been hers.

Orlando Frati, owner of the pawnshop, took out his records and showed police that the necklace had been in his inventory for more than nine months.

The woman said she had ideas of several individuals who could have taken the necklace, but with no proof and the timeline of events not matching up, police told her nothing could be done.

COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER NICK McCREA