Authorities briefly evacuated Eastport Hall on the campus of University College of Bangor Tuesday morning after someone found graffiti in a bathroom that stated there was anthrax present.

A Bangor police officer investigating the incident reported that he couldn’t see any “visible signs” on the toilet paper or around the stall where the message scrawled in the bathroom stall said it was. As a precaution and as part of procedures, state police and Maine Emergency Management Agency officials were alerted and the Bangor Fire Department secured the toilet paper, which was taken to Augusta for testing, according to police.

Witnesses contacted Brewer police Monday afternoon to report an erratic driver on Wilson Street. The witness followed the motorist to the Wal-Mart parking lot, where the police met up with it.

The driver, identified as Jermey Gould Burrill, 24, of Exeter, appeared intoxicated and admitted to taking methadone earlier in the day, according to Brewer police Officer Paul Gauvin. He had marijuana with him, according to police.

Gauvin arrested Burrill and took him to the Bangor Police Department where a drug recognition expert assessed the Exeter man and developed the opinion that Burrill was under the influence of a narcotic analgesic and was unable to safely operate a motor vehicle, according to police.

Burrill was charged with possession of a useable amount of marijuana, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants-drugs, operating a motor vehicle after license suspension and violation of conditions of release as he was out on bail from a previous arrest.

A Holden woman was charged with domestic assault Monday after she went to her ex-boyfriend’s place of work in Bangor and punched him repeatedly after learning he had begun seeing someone else, police said.

The ex-boyfriend said that Nicole Clark, 18, arrived at his job with their daughter and he was playing with the child when Clark asked him if he was seeing anyone. When he answered in the affirmative, she began punching him in the head repeatedly, according to the police report. She hit him, even after the manager pulled her away from him, according to the report.

A few minutes after warning a New Hampshire man not to drive out of a parking lot early Tuesday morning because he was intoxicated, a Bangor police officer noticed the man’s van driving out of the French Street parking lot.

Officer Shawn Green followed the van as it headed up State Street hill riding the curb as it did and then went through the light on Broadway. Green stopped the vehicle on Broadway near Penobscot Street and after field sobriety tests took Michael Doyon, 27, of Derry, N.H., to the police station for an Intoxilyzer test and summoned him for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli