Bangor police arrested a Bradford man Friday afternoon after he allegedly struck a man in the back of the head with brass knuckles.

Brian J. Ouellette, 20, was charged with aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon and remained at Penobscot County Jail Friday night on a probation hold.

Police officers were sent to Warren Street on a reported fight about 5:20 p.m. and found a small group of people in the middle of the street. One of them was a man bleeding from the back of his head. Officer Butch Moor reported that the bleeding man and another witness identified Ouellette, standing on the grass nearby, as the assailant.

The witness said Ouellette struck the man in the back of the head with something in his hand and then threw the object to a boy who ran into a nearby home.

Officer Paul Colley went into the home with the boy, Ouellette’s 13-year-old cousin, who led him to the brass knuckles the boy had hid underneath his bed. —-

A Milford man who refused to leave the lobby of the Penobscot County Jail was arrested Friday morning, about a week before he was scheduled to serve a jail sentence.

Bangor police Officer Russell Twaddell reported finding Abernathy Miller, 31, in the jail lobby acting belligerent and yelling at a woman.

Twaddell told Miller to leave at least five times, to no avail, according to the officer’s police report. Miller stated that he didn’t care about being arrested since he was to begin a nine-month sentence in about a week. —-

Bangor police arrested motorist Thomas Collins, 46, of Bangor early Friday morning after he allegedly struck another car at the Penobscot Plaza and drove away.

Police charged Collins with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and with leaving the scene of a property damage accident.

A taxi driver told Officer Russell Twaddell that a car with the conservation license plate “Pepsi” struck the back of his cab. The cab driver said the two looked at each other before the other motorist drove over the sidewalk and drove away.

Police found the car and Collins at the Christy’s store on State Street and the cab driver identified Collins, although Collins denied being in the accident, according to a police report. Twaddell reported finding a scuff mark on the rear bumper of Collins’ car, the same height as the damage to the cab. —-

A North Carolina woman who told police she wasn’t homeless, just on vacation, visited a Bangor courthouse and the county jail this week after her arrest by two police departments in two days.

Susan Cahir, 35, of Asheville, N.C., made an initial appearance in Bangor District Court on Thursday and was released on personal recognizance and required to return to court on June 3.

Police arrested Cahir in Brewer on Wednesday, charging her with criminal trespass, one day after Bangor police had charged her with the same thing.

Early Wednesday afternoon an employee of Miller’s Discount Store on South Main Street told Brewer Cpl. Fred Luce that Cahir had been there for about three hours, according to documents at the Bangor District Court. At the store, she had been tearing price tags off merchandise and refused to leave when told to by a store employee.

Luce told Cahir to leave twice and each time she refused to budge, so he arrested her, according to the court document. Luce also charged Cahir with violation of conditions of release, as her bail from her arrest in Bangor Tuesday prohibited her from committing any additional crime.

Her arrest Tuesday stemmed from her refusal to leave the Greater Bangor Area Shelter, which had no room to house her for the night, according to a police report by Officer Allen Hayden.

Hayden arrested Cahir who didn’t want to return to another shelter where she had spent the night and reportedly contended that she had a residence in North Carolina and that she was on vacation, traveling around.

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Bangor police arrested two men for drunken driving in separate incidents early Thursday morning.

Police stopped a station wagon driven by Charles E. Murray, 24, of Brewer for speeding and erratic driving about 12:36 a.m.

Bangor police Officer Brian Nichols reported that he followed the station wagon over the Veterans Remembrance Bridge and that down the off ramp, the car nearly struck the guardrail three times. The station wagon also struck the median curb on South Main Street and rode the curb for a short distance.

Murray admitted to having two to three beers that night and at one point interrupted the field sobriety tests saying, “Let’s stop the [bull] I’m drunk,” according to Nichols’ report.

Murray was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, failure to provide a valid or current certificate of inspection, and failure to provide evidence of insurance.

About two hours later, Nichols arrested Kevin A. Burton, 23, of Bangor on charges of OUI and operating a motor vehicle without a license.

Nichols reported that Burton’s vehicle didn’t stop at the stop sign at the intersection of Charles Street and Highland Avenue. Burton told Nichols that he had had one beer earlier at an Orono bar, but that he performed poorly on field sobriety tests, according to Nichols’ report.

— Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli