A man staying in the tent area at the Paul Bunyan Campground in Bangor told police Friday that when he went to strike up a conversation with a neighbor, the other man became belligerent and pulled out a knife.

The man told police that the other man, Andrew Lewis, 37, told him to mind his own business and then pushed him. The men exchanged pushes, then Lewis pulled out a knife and began making stabbing motions at the other man, witnesses told Bangor police Officer Bill Lawrence.

Lawrence found the knife in a bag on the ground at Lewis’ feet and summoned Lewis on charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct.

Investigating a complaint of a group of men being disorderly and throwing trash on Center Street in Bangor late Thursday night, police found one of the men wearing gloves, carrying a ghost mask and brass knuckles, and hiding behind a vehicle.

Confronted by police after 11 p.m., Joshua York, 21, of Bangor claimed he was wearing the gloves because he was cold. York explained that he had the gray-colored ghost mask under a ball cap because he had “a lot of enemies,” Bangor police Officer David Bushey reported.

York was summoned on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and was given a warning for drinking alcohol in public and for disorderly conduct.

A transient man was charged Friday morning with assault after it was reported the night before he had struck two people in the emergency room of St. Joseph Hospital.

Charles Watson, 50, reportedly struck the arm of a physician’s assistant who was trying to check him out Thursday night and then kicked a security officer who intervened and stepped between them.

Watson was summoned for assault. He told Bangor police Officer Brad Hanson the next morning that he drank about a liter of vodka straight and didn’t remember what had happened.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli