The first time a Bangor woman called police to have her former boyfriend removed from her home Saturday, he left by himself before anybody responded. The second time it required a police escort.

The Sunset Avenue woman told Officer Catherine Rumsey that she awoke to find ex-boyfriend Joseph A. Clarke Jr., 52, on top of her and that when she ordered him to leave, he became argumentative and verbally abusive. He left when she called police, but returned a short time later – after she had called police to cancel her report.

This time, she heard noise in her living room and found it was Clarke, she said. She again told him to leave and called police.

Rumsey said that when she arrived, she went to the front door and found Clarke pushing his former girlfriend out the door in her wheelchair. Clarke appeared to be intoxicated and Rumsey ordered him twice to let go of the wheelchair before he responded.

Asked why he was in the apartment, Clarke told Rumsey, “because I’m her girlfriend,” according to the police report.

To gain access to the home, Clarke apparently had broken in the door, prompting a charge of criminal mischief that was added to the criminal trespass charge. Rumsey learned that Clarke was already out on bail and charged him with violation of conditions of release.

An 85-year-old man who was convicted earlier this year of two counts of unlawful sexual contact was arrested last week and charged with violating his probation.

After serving a brief jail term in May, Willie Jackson was required to receive counseling as part of his probation, but apparently had failed to do so, prompting probation authorities to ask Veazie police to arrest him.

Officer Dan Worcester did that Wednesday afternoon, taking the man into custody without incident.

A Brewer man who was stopped for speeding in Bangor early Saturday told police that he was simply trying to drive his drunken friends home.

The two friends were allowed to go home by another means, but the driver was arrested for drunken driving.

Officers Steve Jordan and Brian Nichols were heading west on Hammond Street about 12:30 a.m. Saturday when a red Chevrolet Cavalier came speeding toward them, doing 44 mph in a 25 mph zone, according to radar and the police report.

As the officers turned around, the car sped up, turned quickly onto Pier Street, then pulled into a driveway on West Broadway. The cruiser pulled up behind.

The motorist, Jason Leighton, 25, had glassy, bloodshot eyes, according to Nichols, who also said that Leighton’s words were slurred and that there was a strong odor of alcohol coming from his mouth. Nichols had Leighton perform field sobriety tests and noted that Leighton performed poorly on them.

An Intoxilyzer test at the Penobscot County Jail registered Leighton’s blood alcohol content at 0.23 percent or nearly three times the legal limit.

At the jail, Leighton made repeated comments to the officers, including, “There are a lot of kids that look up to me in Brewer, Maine,” according to reports. Leighton also offered to pay the police whatever they wanted.

Nichols reported that while Leighton walked toward the booking area, he bumped into a corrections officer and walked up to Officer Jordan, nose to nose. Jordan pushed Leighton away, and Leighton was taken to the ground, where he was handcuffed.

A driver was spotted early Sunday headed down Hammond Street in Bangor, using mostly the parking lanes and reverting to the proper travel lanes to avoid hitting parked cars.

The driver did this consistently from Fourteenth Street to Cedar Street, reported Lt. Steven Hunt who was driving two vehicles behind the wayward motorist. Hunt had Officers James Hassard and Rob Angelo stop the car. The vehicle came to a stop on Franklin Street with its left wheel to the curb, and Angelo noted that the registration had expired in October 2000.

The driver was identified as Richard E. Doane, 24, of Springfield, who Hassard said had glassy, slightly bloodshot eyes. The officer could smell alcohol coming from inside the vehicle. Doane admitted to having two beers earlier and swayed during field sobriety tests. Hassard concluded that Doane was intoxicated and arrested him, charging him with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

An Intoxilyzer test registered Doane’s blood alcohol content at 0.15 percent or nearly twice the legal limit.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli