Two men leave trail of complaints in spate of crimes Police kept busy from Belfast to Bucksport

BELFAST – Authorities are still sorting out the particulars of a two-man crime spree that took place in the city Tuesday evening.

Police chief Jeffrey Trafton said Wednesday that Michael Crossman, 31, of Belfast and Anthony Allen, age unknown, believed to be from Bangor, were both implicated in a spree that included a number of alleged assaults, criminal mischief and walking out on a bar tab.

The two men left a trail of complaints in their wake before eventually being picked up by police in Bucksport.

Crossman was arrested for drunken driving and drinking while free on bail from other charges and taken to the Waldo County Jail. Allen was summoned for assault. Trafton said additional charges would be filed once the police investigation is completed.

“There will be more charges coming once we get everything sorted out,” Trafton said Wednesday.

The pair’s evening began around supper time when they walked out on an $18 bar tab at Rollie’s Bar and Grill in Belfast. From Rollie’s the men went up Main Street to the 132 Club and proceeded to get into a shouting match with one of the club’s patrons before leaving.

Police received a call at 7:01 p.m. reporting that two men in a silver compact car were at a High Street residence pounding on the hood of a parked pickup truck. The truck was owed by the 132 Club patron.

While Sgt. John Gibbs and patrolman Brian Lunt were at High Street talking to the truck’s owner, another call came in from three teenage boys who reported that two men in a silver car had assaulted them while they were skateboarding at Bridge and Washington streets. One boy had a broken tooth; another was punched in the head.

The boys gave police the car’s license plate number and the registration came back on a loaner silver Ford Focus owned by Darling’s Ford of Bangor.

Police issued an all points bulletin for the car and were still searching for the two men when they received another complaint from a male on Swan Lake Avenue who claimed a silver car had run him off the road and that the occupants got out and tried to pick a fight with him.

The man told police that one of the men referred to the other as “Tony.” The man took the plate number and it came back as the same car registered to Darling’s.

By that time, police learned that Crossman was in possession of the loaner and added his name to the bulletin. A short time later, Bucksport police called to report that they had stopped the car.

Officer Lunt went to Bucksport and placed Crossman under arrest. He is being held in the county jail.