Bangor police charged two men Sunday with knocking over a half-dozen gravestones at the Oak Grove Cemetery.

Jacob Adam Raitt, 19, of New Hampshire and Orlando Juan Tirado, 20, of Bangor were arrested a short time after police said they walked to the Finson Road cemetery and kicked over the gravestones.

Both men were charged with interference with a cemetery or burial ground.

Raitt and Tirado were part of a group of four people seen walking down Finson Road early Sunday morning.

With them was a 13-year-old boy, whose address was not available, who was arrested on a warrant and also summoned with violating the city’s curfew, according to the police report. The boy was not charged with the vandalism. A second teenager, a 16-year-old girl, no address available, was not charged at all and was released to her father.

Bangor police Officer Chris Desmond spotted the four walking on Finson Road about 12:50 a.m. Sunday and again about a half-hour later. But their progress on the road seemed slow, Desmond reported. The officer then found six gravestones had been knocked over at the cemetery.

Raitt and Tirado denied any knowledge of what happened, although one of their companions said they had been involved, according to the police report.

An argument between a Corinth couple escalated Saturday and Shawn Bowman, 32, was arrested and charged with assaulting and terrorizing his girlfriend, according to police.

Bowman’s girlfriend had abrasions and scratches on her right arm that she said came from being pushed into the door frame and abrasions on her ankle she said came from Bowman kicking her, Maine State Trooper Michael Johnston said Monday.

During the incident, Bowman allegedly threatened to hurt his girlfriend and at one point threw his girlfriend’s purse through a window, breaking the glass, Johnston said. Some of the shattering glass struck the woman, although Johnston said she did not appear to have been injured.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli