Cauley Connell, 43, of Bangor faces a domestic assault charge after it was reported he struck his girlfriend in the head with a telephone Monday.

Bangor police were called to Connell’s apartment at 122 Court St. about 2:10 a.m. for a report of a fight and heard yelling from inside the apartment. As police sought to enter the apartment, they found Connell pushing his girlfriend outside. He told police that she was intoxicated and that he wanted her removed.

Officers Brent Beaulieu and Brian Nichols noticed dried blood around the woman’s mouth as well as on her shirt. And there was a half-dollar-sized abrasion on the woman’s forehead, at the hairline, according to the police reports. Dried blood also was found on Connell’s arms and drops of blood were seen on the hallway and bedroom floors.

Connell initially told police that his girlfriend had been drinking and tripped and fell while going outside. He later claimed that two men had assaulted her in Coe Park.

His 35-year-old girlfriend told police, “He smashed me,” according to the reports.

The officers arrested Connell, reporting that the man resisted when they tried to handcuff him. The officers used an arm bar hold and handcuffed him.

The driver of a car seen being driven erratically in Old Town was arrested on alcohol and drug charges.

Late Thursday night, Old Town police Officer Corey Day stopped the late-model car for speeding, doing 10 mph over the limit, although initial reports also had the car forcing other motorists off the road as it headed down Stillwater Avenue. Day stopped the car near Pine Haven Mobile Home Park about 11:45 p.m. and approaching the car, noticed the driver was wearing a backpack.

The officer also noticed the smell of alcohol coming from inside the car. Outside the car, motorist James Wandling, 26, of Orono was unsteady on his feet, Day reported.

After Wandling admitted to having a pocket knife, Day patted Wandling down and had the man empty his pockets. The man pulled out a wad of money, $1,027 that Wandling said he earned from working at a restaurant in Bar Harbor.

Day had Wandling perform field sobriety tests and reported that Wandling was unsteady on his feet and at times needed the support of the car and the officer to remain upright. Wandling admitted to drinking one beer, but that was hours earlier.

Unconvinced of the man’s sobriety, Day arrested Wandling. Searching the man’s backpack, Wandling discovered three wrapped packages of marijuana. The way that the marijuana was packed, combined with the large amount of money Wandling had on him, prompted police to charge Wandling with trafficking in marijuana.

Wandling also was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and the Intoxilyzer test registered his blood-alcohol content at 0.19 percent, or more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Cleared to leave Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, a Hampden woman became violent when she learned she would have to pay her own way home Sunday night.

Cassandra White, 35, faces a charge of assault on an emergency health care provider after the incident at the hospital’s emergency department.

At the hospital, Bangor police Officer Russell Twaddell was directed by hospital officials to Room No. 16 where several staff members were holding White down on a stretcher.

White had been brought in for a possible overdose and subsequently was discharged. But she became violent toward the hospital staff when told she would have to pay for the taxicab ride home. She began throwing a chair around and repeatedly pushing a stretcher into the wall, according to the police report.

A doctor and nurse tried to calm White, but she kicked the nurse in the groin, while the doctor reported he suffered a scratch on his right forearm when she tried to bite him.

White was taken to Penobscot County Jail where she pounded her head against a cement wall, according to the report.

Wallace “Wally” Moran, 56, of Bangor was charged with disorderly conduct and issued a criminal trespass warning this week after a confrontation he had with a former co-worker.

Moran had been warned not to harass employees or patrons of Miller’s Restaurant, according to police, but Saturday afternoon had some disparaging words for a restaurant employee he saw at West Market Square, Officer Jeff Small was told.

Bangor police had the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office review the complaint and they recommended Moran be charged with disorderly conduct. He was summoned at his State Street apartment Monday morning.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli