Bangor man arrested after fiancee accuses him of assault

A Bangor police officer interviewed a distraught woman at the new Summer Street police station at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. The woman had come with a friend to ask for a police escort back to the apartment she shared with her fiance, Nolan D. Godsoe III, according to the police report filed by Officer James Hassard.

The woman told Hassard that Godsoe, 29, had assaulted her on Monday and again on Tuesday, punching her and trying to choke her. He also endangered her as she tried to get out of their vehicle, accelerating and braking suddenly so that she was thrown forward against the dashboard, according to the report.

The officer took photographs of injuries on the woman’s upper body, neck, ear, shoulder and thigh.

Hassard then went to the couple’s apartment to interview Godsoe, accompanied by two other officers. Godsoe initially denied that any physical assault had occurred, but acknowledged that he and the woman had argued earlier in the afternoon.

Hassard placed Godsoe under arrest on two counts of assault and transported him to the Penobscot County Jail. At the jail, Godsoe said his fiancee should be charged with assault as well, but rejected Hassard’s offer to reinterview him and take pictures of his injuries, according to the police report. (Meg Haskell, BDN)

An 11-year-old boy’s bicycle was reportedly run over by a car as he was walking it along Grove Street on Wednesday evening. The boy was not injured, according to Bangor police Sgt. Ed Potter.

Little information about the incident was available at press time, but Potter said Darrell Sproul, 56, of Papermill Road in Hampden was summoned for leaving the scene of the accident. (Meg Haskell, BDN)