Escalating tit-for-tat anger led to the arrest of an Orono man on charges of domestic assault Friday night.

According to the Orono Police Department, officers responded to a report of yelling and screaming at Stillwater Village, an apartment complex, at about 10:40 p.m.

According to the victim, she and her live-in boyfriend, Daniel Harriman, 22, were arguing when she said she would call the police if he didn’t stop.

She went to unplug the phone and take it into another room, but Harriman grabbed it and smashed it, police said. The woman then went into the bedroom and broke his compact-disk player.

They then wrestled on the bed before going into the living room, according to the woman. In the living room, Harriman threw her to the floor, pressing his hand over her mouth so she couldn’t scream, according to police.

She bit his hand, and was able to flee to a neighbor’s residence. After two police officers arrived and listened to both of their stories, they arrested Harriman and charged him with domestic assault. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail, and he was released on bail Saturday morning.

A 21-year-old Presque Isle man was arrested and charged with criminal mischief Saturday night in Bangor for kicking and shattering three glass doors at the Holiday Inn on Main Street.

Hotel staff members called police and showed them three broken glass doors in one of the hotel’s hallways. Officers noticed blood on the doors, according to the Bangor Police Department report of the incident. One door had a hole knocked through it.

A witness said she had seen a man who was yelling and screaming in the hallway kick his foot completely through one of the doors, according to the report. Witnesses also said that earlier the same man had been in an altercation with bouncers at The Bounty, a tavern at the hotel.

The man, Chad A. Shaw, was found staying at another hotel in the city. When police caught up with him, he was “immediately aggressive” toward them, “arguing aggressively” with them, the report states.

As one officer took Shaw to his cruiser to issue him a summons for criminal mischief, Shaw kept rounding on him, sometimes with balled fists. At one point in a narrow stairway, Shaw turned on the officer and stood chest to chest with him and “began to grit his teeth.”

The officer had to grasp Shaw’s jacket and hold him at arm’s length, giving him a disorderly conduct warning.

Despite the warning, Shaw continued to be “verbally uncooperative,” according to the report.

An 18-year-old Bangor woman who was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol early Saturday morning apparently couldn’t keep herself away from a party at 97 Lincoln St.

Responding to the scene at about 12:45 a.m., Bangor police officers found that, among other things, a 1996 Plymouth Neon was backed into a snowbank. As officers approached the car, it jerked forward and turned into a driveway, according to the police report.

The driver, Jennifer Miller, told officers that the problem was that the car had a standard transmission and she wasn’t used to it. When asked whether she had been drinking at the party, Miller replied that she hadn’t had anything to drink.

Even after failing a field sobriety test, Miller asserted, “I’m not that intoxicated,” according to the police report. After she was taken to the Bangor police station, a test revealed that her blood alcohol content was 0.09 percent, just above the legal limit for those 21 and older.

When police impounded her vehicle and issued Miller a summons, she asked if she could make a telephone call because she had a young child being taken care of at her home.

Later that morning, police responded to a disturbance at 97 Lincoln St. and found Miller back at the party. Even later, she was found yet again, this time “roaming the streets.”

Because of her young child, the police report stated, a copy would be sent to the Maine Department of Human Services.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Gordon Bonin