Good Samaritan finds trouble in form of summons

A woman trying to be a good Samaritan in Orono was issued a summons early Friday after she stopped to help pull a car out of a snowbank.

Orono police Sgt. Josh Ewing was patrolling North Main Street around 1:40 a.m. when he saw a car off the road and several people standing around a second vehicle near the intersection of North Main and Pier streets.

When he stopped, Ewing was approached by the second vehicle’s driver, Jessie Alcaide, 22, of Orono.

Alcaide said she was “driving home and saw the vehicle off the road and saw several people trying to push it out.”

Alcaide told Ewing that she would go get her roommate’s car to try to pull the other vehicle out.

When she returned, Ewing had a problem: No one at the scene would admit to driving the car that was off the road.

“When they checked [Alcaide’s] license, it said that her license was currently suspended,” Ewing said.

Alcaide, who was seen by Ewing driving her roommate’s car back to the scene, was issued a summons for operating after suspension and is scheduled to appear March 1 in 3rd District Court at Bangor.

The person Alcaide borrowed the vehicle from came and picked it up so it wouldn’t have to be towed.

Police were still investigating Friday to see who was driving the car that had gone into the ditch.

An intoxicated man found lying on the road on Central Street in Millinocket was arrested Thursday night after police discovered a warrant was out for his arrest.

Jason Morgan, 21, of Millinocket was sought for unpaid fines. Police found him lying on the ground after he apparently wandered down Central Street near the Best Value Heritage Motor Inn.

Morgan is believed to have posted bail and was not at Penobscot County Jail on Friday afternoon.

Bangor police arrested a belligerent, intoxicated woman early Friday after she refused to quiet down and screamed insults at two officers, police said.

Officer Kerry Libby responded to a call around 2:30 a.m. from a Hammond Street apartment resident who said that one of his neighbors was banging on his door and yelling at him, keeping him and others in the apartment awake.

Libby found Brianna Whalon, 22, sitting on the stairs inside the building and noted that she was visibly intoxicated. When he asked what she was doing, Whalon answered that she was sitting on the stairs, according to the police report.

The officer told Whalon to go back to her room, to which she began shouting obscenities and insults at Libby. She continued to do so despite several warnings to quiet down and go home, so the officer handcuffed Whalon and had to escort the uncooperative woman down the stairs, out of the apartment building and into the police cruiser.

When Whalon was finally put into the back of the cruiser, she proceeded to repeatedly bash her head against the Plexiglas divider, the report said.

Whalon was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to Penobscot County Jail. She paid bail and was released that same morning.

– COMPILED BY BDN REPORTERS AIMEE DOLLOFF AND NICK MCCREA.