Old Town man jailed on slate of charges

An intoxicated Old Town man spent the early morning hours in Penobscot County Jail on Friday after kicking in a trailer door and pulling a knife on a group of friends, according to Veazie police.

Derrick Beal, 23, picked fights in the Greystone Trailer Park home and allegedly pulled a knife on his friends saying he would “cut them,” said Sgt. Keith Emery of the Veazie Police Department, reading from the report.

People inside the trailer were able to push Beal out the door and lock it, the report said. Beal then allegedly kicked the door in and again became combative. The friends then grabbed Beal and threw him off the trailer’s deck, Emery said.

Beal’s girlfriend drove him to Old Town, where police stopped them. Beal was charged by the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office on Friday with criminal trespass, criminal mischief, assault and criminal threatening, Emery said. He was released from jail after his arraignment Friday afternoon. (Toni-Lynn Robbins, BDN)

A Dexter woman was seriously injured just after 5 p.m. Friday when her SUV went off Upper Garland Road in Dexter and hit trees in a swampy area, according to Cpl. Alan Grinnell of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department.

A LifeFlight helicopter was flown in to take Madelyn Boardman, who was born in 1970, to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where her condition was still being evaluated late Friday.

Grinnell said a paramedic at the scene indicated Boardman was in “serious but not life-threatening” condition.

Dexter firefighters were at the scene to help and also assisted with traffic control while the LifeFlight helicopter landed in a field on Charleston Road.

The cause of the accident, which involved only Boardman’s 1994 Chevy Blazer, is under investigation. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)