Pickup hits, drags man in Dysart’s parking lot

HERMON – A Van Buren man was run over by a pickup truck in the Dysart’s Truck Stop parking lot Monday night after an argument with three friends, according to police.

Pierre Verret, 30, of Grand Isle is being sought by police in connection with hitting the man and leaving the scene, along with two others in the parking lot of Dysart’s Truck Stop on Coldbrook Road around 11 p.m. Monday, said Deputy Michael Adams of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office.

Verret and the Van Buren man had met two other male friends at Dysart’s and the four of them soon got into an argument, Adams said. The 36-year-old Van Buren man was told that they were leaving him at the truck stop after the argument.

When he was walking back to the truck to get his things out of it, Verret put the Chevy truck into gear and ran him over, dragging him across the parking lot, Adams said. The three men fled the scene without checking on the victim.

The injured man got up and went into Dysart’s to call police, but refused medical treatment upon their arrival, despite his right knee being badly hurt, and abrasions all over his body and head. He said that he didn’t have insurance, according to Adams. He stayed overnight in one of the rooms at Dysart’s and had a family member pick him up Tuesday morning.

It is reported that the two other men that he and Verret met at Dysart’s had been living out of their Suburban in the parking lot of Dysart’s, using the shower facilities there and had been working construction jobs in the Bangor area. The names of the two men were not released.

All four men are well-known by Van Buren police, according to Adams.

Police are keeping an eye out for Verret’s truck and keeping a watch on his residence in Grand Isle. He will be arrested and charged with elevated aggravated assault, a Class A felony, driving to endanger and leaving the scene of a personal injury accident when they find him.

The victim thinks that his friend was trying to kill him, said Adams.