Fire that burned teen still being investigated

The Hermon Fire Department chief declined Monday to provide any information about the condition of a 14-year-old Bishop Road boy who apparently put a paint can into a fire, causing an explosion that burned him Sunday.

A member of the Fire Department confirmed Sunday that the incident had occurred and that the teen was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

On Monday, Chief Larry Willis referred all questions to Stu Jacobs of the State Fire Marshal’s Office, who was called in to investigate the incident. Calls to the fire investigators were not returned Monday. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)

A Bangor transient who was arrested Sept. 18 on a charge of criminal threatening also was booked on 11 outstanding warrants.

David Riley, 24, apparently verbally threatened to kill a girlfriend when she was breaking up with him and trying to get away from him, Bangor police Lt. Tim Reid said Monday, reading from the report.

Riley was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor terrorizing and taken to Penobscot County Jail, Reid said.

Riley remained at the jail Monday, a jail official said. His outstanding warrants are for failure to appear on a variety of charges – theft, attaching false plates, operating after suspension and violating conditions of release, the jail official said. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)

Police and rescue personnel responded to a single car accident on the Monroe Road in Monroe about 8 p.m. Monday.

A dispatcher at the Waldo County Communication Center said that reports indicated four people were in the vehicle, which left the road on a sharp curve near the Roundy Greenhouse.

It was reported that one occupant was trapped in the vehicle.

The dispatcher said the Monroe, Brooks and Winterport fire departments and Brooks Ambulance Services responded to the accident, which was a short distance from the intersection of the Monroe Road and the Haley and Dahlia Farm roads. He said a LifeFlight helicopter was on standby if needed. Investigating Maine State Police Trooper Jonah O’Roak was at the scene and could not be reached for comment. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)

Police on Monday were still not releasing the identities of the two men involved in a stabbing incident Sunday night on Todd’s Corner Road in St. Albans.

Detective Lt. Carl Gottardi of the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department said Monday evening that the case remains under investigation and is being reviewed by the District Attorney’s Office. Unless there is an arrest, he said the names of those involved would not be released.

Gottardi confirmed that the stabbing victim had forced his way into a home on Todd’s Corner Road and struck the male occupant of the home several times with a baseball bat.

During the altercation, the intruder was stabbed several times in the stomach and chest.

He then fled the home but was soon found by Deputy Michael Ross, who was responding to a 911 call from the residence. Ross called for an ambulance.

The intruder was treated at Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield and then airlifted to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where he is in stable condition, Gottardi said.

The occupant of the home did not suffer serious injuries and was treated at Sebasticook Valley and released.

Gottardi said both men are in their 30s, and the intruder also lives in St. Albans. (Sharon Kiley Mack, BDN)