Search finds nothing after mayday call heard

U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern New England heard a distress call around 5:15 p.m. Sunday.

The call came in saying “mayday,” and about 10 seconds later a “hello?” was heard, according to search and rescue specialist Kenneth Stuart.

The call was considered uncorrelated, he said, with neither a geographical position given nor the nature of the distress described.

“We have to do a lot of investigative work, using our equipment, to try and determine the geographical location,” Stuart said.

The Coast Guard launched a Falcon jet from Cape Cod to search the Grand Manan Channel area.

The Coast Guard’s urgent marine information broadcast was aired on Channel 16 every 15 minutes. With no more information gathered as of 9:45 p.m., the search was canceled.

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A Holden man was arrested in the parking lot of a Mobil gas station early Sunday morning after a clerk saw him vomiting out of his parked car.

Bangor police found a man sitting in his 2006 Mazda in the parking lot of the Union Street and Griffin Road Mobil around 2:30 a.m. Sunday. According to police reports, he smelled of alcohol and vomit.

The man, identified as Simon Churchill, 34, of Holden, insisted he was not driving, but a woman with him, who went inside the store, was. He also “didn’t know where the keys were,” police said. The keys were found in the center console of the car.

According to reports, the clerk said she saw the car pull into the parking lot traveling faster than it should have and Churchill was driving. She said she saw him vomit. The female passenger confirmed this information. Police found vomit on the floorboards on the driver’s side and some that spilled over the sill.

Churchill was taken to the station for an Intoxilyzer test after failing field sobriety tests. His blood alcohol concentration was 0.13 percent. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail and was charged with operating under the influence.

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When Bangor police pulled a woman over for weaving between and crossing over the white and yellow lines on Ohio Street, she stopped her car halfway into a ditch around 2 a.m. Sunday.

Jennifer Jeanne, 26, of Bangor said she had just come from Club Gemini, according to reports. She was heading to her apartment at 649 Finson Road.

Police said she smelled of alcohol and slurred her speech when she answered questions.

The officer conducted field sobriety tests, which she failed according to reports. Jeanne was taken to the station for an Intoxilyzer test. Her blood alcohol content was 0.13 percent. She was released from the station the same morning.

– COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER CHELSEY LEDUE