Police in Bangor are looking for a man who reportedly tried to assault a 49-year-old local woman, but who may have received the worst blows of the encounter.

The woman told police that late Sunday as she was walking home to her Essex Street apartment, a man came up behind her and grabbed her by the throat. The woman responded by stomping on the man’s foot, head-butting him and kicking him in the groin before she ran to her apartment to call police.

The woman didn’t get a good look at her attacker’s face, but she said he was probably about 5-feet 8-inches tall with a medium build, according to a police report.

A 54-year-old transient man told police on Sunday evening that someone assaulted him while he was at Pickering Square in Bangor and then stole his cigarettes and a small amount of money.

The transient said he was approached earlier that morning by another man who asked him for a cigarette but then punched him in the mouth, breaking his dentures, Detective Lt. Tim Reid, head of the Bangor Police Department said Monday.

The alleged assailant then took the cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of money from him and left. The man was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center and later released.

The man police are looking for is described as being about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing between 150 and 175 pounds with neck-length brown hair. He was wearing jeans and a blue hooded sweat shirt with the sleeves rolled up, exposing a tattoo on his upper left arm.

“We’re not sure what the tattoo is,” Reid said.

Anyone with information can contact the police at 947-7382, ext. 250.

A Hampden woman reported to police Sunday that her dog had been taken from a lot on Godsoe Road in Bangor, where she kept him chained.

The woman said the 5-month-old, black and white half bull mastiff, half pit bull was chained to a tractor trailer in an empty lot near a moving company. She said the dog couldn’t have left on its own, but she suspects that her ex-boyfriend might have something to do with the dog’s disappearance, according to a police report.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Eric Russell and Doug Kesseli