10-foot coffee cup stolen from Dunkin’ Donuts

Someone has taken a huge coffee cup from the new Dunkin’ Donuts at Snows Corner in Orrington.

An inflatable 10-foot-tall Dunkin’ Donuts coffee cup advertisement was stolen sometime between 9 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Jon Carson, Orrington’s community policing supervisor for the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department, said Tuesday.

Because the coffee cup advertisement cost $2,500, the theft is a felony, he said.

Carson is asking anyone who was in the area or who has information about the theft to call him at 825-4178. (Nok-Noi Hauger, BDN)

Three Penobscot County sheriff’s deputies responded Monday afternoon to a dispute in Etna where one property owner allegedly threatened his neighbor with a pistol, according to Deputy James Kennedy.

The incident appears to have started the day before when the complainant’s son allegedly saw his neighbor, Fred Janvrin, riding a four-wheeler on the complainant’s property on Bardon Hill Road.

Each party told police a slightly different story, but the complainant said he went to speak to his neighbor about riding the all-terrain vehicle on his property, but Janvrin came out waving a gun and threatened to kill him.

Janvrin admitted to police that he was armed when he confronted the complainant on his own property but he told the deputies the weapon didn’t have a cylinder in it.

Janvrin said his neighbor wanted to fight, but Janvrin told him, “the only fighting I’m going to do is with this.” He admitted to waving the gun around, but denied pointing it at the man, Kennedy said Tuesday.

The deputies summoned Janvrin for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, a felony offense. He is scheduled to appear Sept. 14 at Penobscot County Superior Court in Bangor and faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. (Aimee Dolloff, BDN)

An intoxicated Etna man is facing three charges after a weekend incident on the West Etna Road in Etna. Police received a call about 11:30 p.m. that there was a car in the ditch, but when Maine State Police Trooper Doug Franklin arrived at the scene, he said he couldn’t find the vehicle anywhere.

He saw a man, woman and two teenagers standing outside a nearby home and stopped to talk to them.

“The female was noticeably nervous and so were the juveniles,” Franklin said Tuesday. They indicated to Franklin that the man, Anthony Jerry, 43, was the one who had been in the ditch and that he’d gotten the vehicle out and pulled into their yard, but that they didn’t know him.

“He was kind of being a handful for them,” Franklin said, adding that Jerry was belligerent and intoxicated.

“When I told him that he was under arrest, he became combative with me,” Franklin said. “We ended up getting in a little bit of a tussle. Even after he was cuffed he continued to be combative.”

The trooper ended up calling an ambulance because Jerry kept passing out, but a doctor at Eastern Maine Medical Center evaluated and released Jerry into police custody. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail where he later posted $350 cash bail and was released.

Jerry was charged with operating under the influence, assault, and refusing to submit to arrest. He is scheduled to appear Sept. 12, at 3rd District Court in Newport. (Aimee Dolloff, BDN).

An undisclosed amount of money and prescription drugs were reported stolen on Saturday from a Dwelley Avenue home in Dover-Foxcroft. There was no forced entry into the home, according to Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Dennis Dyer, who has the incident under investigation. No further information on the incident was released. (Diana Bowley, BDN)