Bangor police investigating a noise complaint on Ohio Street Thursday night spotted a potted marijuana plant growing on a balcony outside a neighboring apartment. But when they went for a closer look, the plant disappeared.

One of the residents of the apartment, Robert J. Levasseur, 41, denied having the illegal plant, saying he only had the tomato plant that police had also seen. Levasseur allowed Officer Jason McAmbley into his home, where on the upstairs balcony McAmbley found the tomato plant and an empty flowerpot beside it.

As the officer headed back out of the apartment he noticed two marijuana pipes and some dried marijuana leaves on a table beside the bed, according to the police report. McAmbley confronted Levasseur about what he saw and told the man that if he was honest with him, McAmbley would only summon him and seize the plant, pipes and leaves.

Levasseur brought the officer to a closet where he had hidden the 31/2-foot marijuana plant. McAmbley summoned Levasseur on charges of cultivating marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

A Bangor woman who was charged with domestic assault last week and prohibited from returning to her home was arrested this week after police found she had been there twice on Thursday.

Shawna McMullen, 38, was charged with violation of conditions of release as well as operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and operating a motor vehicle without a license.

Bangor police received a disconnected 911 telephone call from 168 Grove St. at about 8:30 p.m. Investigating the call, Officer Wade Betters learned from McMullen’s partner that McMullen had been there earlier and that the two had argued.

Betters searched the area but didn’t find McMullen. Hours later and after repeated checks of the area, Betters saw McMullen’s vehicle in the driveway. He stopped about 2:15 a.m. as the car pulled out of the driveway and headed down Grove Street.

McMullen admitted to drinking and to being in the home, but claimed it was the first visit that day. Betters noted that the woman’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot and that there was alcohol coming from her breath. She swayed during field sobriety tests and didn’t perform the tests properly, according to the police report.

A motorist told police In Orono that his van’s power steering let go just before his van crossed the centerline on Stillwater Avenue and was struck by a car early Wednesday afternoon.

Rescue workers had to rip open the sliding door of the van and remove a seat in order to extricate 12-year-old Siripot Sattaboot of Hampden from inside the 1993 Dodge Caravan. Sattaboot’s father, Bunpot Sattaboot, told police that he was heading toward Orono by the Kelly Road when his power steering went. Orono police Officer Sam Blalack said the van crossed into the oncoming lane, where Josie Geis, 22, was driving a 1993 Chevrolet Lumina.

The Lumina struck the van in the passenger-side door, continued across the lane the van was in and drove up into a lawn.

Siripot Sattaboot and Geis were both treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center and released, a hospital spokesman said Thursday.

? Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli