Two men were arrested in separate incidents late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning after it was reported they refused to leave a Bangor nightclub and then challenged the police to fight.

Bangor police officers charged Scott Horton, 37, of Gardiner with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct and charged Samuel Ingraham, 23, of Searsmont with criminal trespass and refusing to submit to arrest following incidents at Barnaby’s lounge.

Working a police detail at the Odlin Road nightclub, Officer Tim Cotton reported that about 11:40 p.m. Horton was stumbling around the hallway and tried to grab a pen from off the ear of the nightclub manager. The manager told Horton not to return to the bar, although Horton claimed he hadn’t been drinking.

Despite repeated warnings to leave by the manager and police, Horton continued to linger, according to Cotton, who said Horton began speaking loudly and using profanity. Cotton and Lt. Tim Reid escorted Horton to the lobby door where the Gardiner man is alleged to have told police he was going to beat them up.

Horton was arrested after he ignored the officers’ admonishments and tried to walk past them toward the lobby desk.

Shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday, Cotton reported having problems with Ingraham. Agitated, Ingraham was by the front door, challenging police officers to a rumble and saying he would bloody the officers’ noses.

Sgt. Ed Potter reported that a woman tried to intercede and get Ingraham to leave, but he pushed her aside and continued what the police described as a tirade.

Eventually, Ingraham made his way outside into the parking lot, where it was reported he made comments about suing the police for following him. Police were getting him going in the right direction when Ingraham stopped and began to turn around. The officers grounded Ingraham and placed him under arrest.

While in custody, Ingraham yelled at the officers, spit on Cotton and kicked at the window inside the cruiser, according to police.

Orono police summoned 50-year-old Peter J. Littlefield of Old Town after his girlfriend’s son reported that Littlefield had threatened to beat him up.

The 20-year-old son told Orono Police Officer Jonathan Roebuck that Tuesday afternoon Littlefield claimed he was going to kick down his bedroom door and beat him up while he was asleep. The son said he had a tape recording to prove it and played it for the officer.

Littlefield admitted there had been a heated confrontation with lots of expletives and insults exchanged, but he denied making any kind of threat against his girlfriend’s son. Roebuck summoned Littlefield on a charge of criminal threatening.

A transient man was charged with theft after it was reported that he tried to take more than $230 in expensive meat and a bag of potatoes from the Shaw’s Supermarket in Bangor on Thursday.

Donald Wade, 31, also was charged with violation of bail conditions because he was out on bail at the time of his arrest.

A loss prevention officer at the Springer Drive Shaw’s told police that about 11:50 a.m. he saw Wade and a carriage with packages of expensive meat and a bag of potatoes. Wade tried to cover up the contents of the carriage with a plastic bin, the store employee told Officer Tyler Leighton. Wade left the store without the carriage, but returned about five minutes later and this time left the store with the carriage, which still contained the food, according to the police report.

The store employee said he confronted Wade outside the store and restrained the transient man when he tried to flee. Once back in the supermarket, Wade admitted to the theft, the police report indicated.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli