Glenburn man charged with furnishing marijuana

A Glenburn man was arrested and charged with unlawful furnishing of marijuana early Sunday morning after Brewer police, with the help of a drug-detecting dog, found 22 plastic bags in his car. Each bag contained pot or pot residue, according to Brewer police Cpl. Paul Gauvin.

James Evan Simpson, 27, first came to Gauvin’s attention because of a missing front license plate, Gauvin said Monday.

When Gauvin pulled Simpson over and approached him, however, the aroma of marijuana wafted from the vehicle, prompting Gauvin and his German shepherd, Cierra, to take a closer look

When confronted about the pot, Simpson initially handed Gauvin one of the bags.

But a subsequent search turned up almost two dozen of them, with a total combined weight of 2.69 ounces of marijuana.

“They were all over the vehicle,” Gauvin said of the bags. He described the vehicle as “basically saturated.”

After his arrest, Simpson was taken to Penobscot County Jail in Bangor. He was released on bail later Sunday and ordered to appear in court in December. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)

A 23-year-old Black Bear football fan was arrested Saturday after refusing to stop drinking after the big University of Maine homecoming game began.

Christopher Gary Atwood, who lives in Orono but is not enrolled at UM, was charged with criminal trespass and taken to Penobscot County Jail in Bangor. He was released on bail over the weekend and ordered to appear in court in December.

Atwood, who had been celebrating in the designated tailgating area, was charged with trespassing after repeatedly refusing to comply with school policy, which requires that drinking stop once the game begins, in this case at noon Saturday, UM spokesman Joe Carr said Monday.

Atwood was asked to stop drinking and leave the campus first by private security personnel and again by campus police officers, Carr said. Atwood, however, continued to be “uncooperative and did not comply,” hence his arrest. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)