An 18-year-old man led Bangor police on a car chase with speeds reaching an estimated 100 mph early Wednesday morning before the youth skidded off a boat landing and ended up in Pushaw Lake, unharmed.

Police charged Ryan Fox with failure to stop for a police officer, eluding a police officer, criminal speed and operating a motor vehicle after license suspension. Police had no address for Fox.

Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill went to investigate a report of a suspicious man lurking around the Darling’s Honda about 12:30 a.m. and found Fox, who sped off, heading down Hogan Road and onto Mount Hope Avenue, then crossing some side streets, according to police.

Blue lights were everywhere as police sought to contain Fox and steer him away from the city’s downtown area, said Officer Steve Jordan. With police cruisers coming at him on Somerset, Grove and Essex streets, Fox’s only open avenue of escape was to head up Essex Street toward Orono. Bangor police tried to set up spike mats ahead of Fox while Orono police also were preparing the mats to stop him.

But Fox pressed forward, traveling at speeds that at times reached as high as 100 mph, according to Officer George Spencer, who was second in pursuit, behind Morrill.

The chase ended on Gould’s Landing near a cul-de-sac where the vehicle skidded across a boat landing, its front end ending up in the lake. Spencer reported that Morrill stood on the boat landing and yelled for Fox to raise his hands in the air and come out of the water.

The police determined that no one else was inside the vehicle and that Fox was not injured. For his part, Fox claimed that he was on probation and going to jail anyway so he had nothing to lose.

Bangor police arrested three men Wednesday afternoon after witnesses claimed they were approached by the three and threatened, with two of the men brandishing weapons.

Police charged Ernest Bishop, 18, of Ellsworth and Brian T. Oechslie, 20, of Brewer with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and possession of a concealed weapon without a permit.

Bishop reportedly carried a wooden club, possibly a table leg, while Oechslie had a pipe that they allegedly used to intimidate and threaten a group of people at a park behind the Internet Cafe on Broad Street in downtown Bangor on Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses told Officer Erik Tall that Michael LaCasse, 23, was present, but didn’t do much talking and didn’t show a weapon. Police charged him with disorderly conduct and criminal threatening.

Police said the three approached a larger group at the park looking for another man, who Bishop later claimed had smashed one of his car windows and slashed his tires. Bishop and Oechslie reportedly told the group that when they found the man, who they thought was a friend of theirs, they were going to cut his throat and “put him six feet under.”

They then antagonized the group, saying that they would take them on in a fight even though the three of them were outnumbered, according to police, who recovered the pipe and wooden club.

State police arrested Aaron Bragg, 22, Tuesday night after troopers went to investigate an emergency 911 call from Carmel that was cut off.

Troopers determined that Bragg assaulted his girlfriend that night and that when she tried to call for help, he punched the phone off the wall, curtailing the call.

The first telephone call came into the Penobscot Regional Communications Center at 9:44 p.m. Officials at the center contacted the state police barracks because state police were covering the area. Troopers Rod Charette and Kyle Willette went to the home on Route 69 and found Bragg and his girlfriend. She had bruises on her that authorities said came as a result of Bragg pushing her.

The woman told authorities that after being pushed, she tried to call 911, but Bragg interrupted and dislodged the phone from the wall. She was able to call for help on a cellular phone at 10:06 p.m.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli