Bangor police arrested a man after he reportedly climbed in the second-story window of a house to use the phone Wednesday night.

Officer Dennis Lally reported that just before midnight he went to a French Street address, where a witness said she saw a man climb on top of the porch and enter the empty house through an unlocked window.

Lally said Officer Steve Jordan contacted the building’s owner, who said nobody had permission to be inside. He gave Jordan the key.

Lally said he found Nathan Dilworth, 24, of Bangor lying on the floor inside the house. Dilworth could not explain how he got in, but said he came in to use the phone. Dilworth was arrested for criminal trespass.

Lally said alcohol was a factor in the incident.

Bangor police arrested a man after his girlfriend said he punched her Wednesday night.

Officer William Lawrence reported that at about noon he went to an Allen Street address, where he met the complainant in her driveway. The woman told Lawrence her boyfriend, Bryan Byther, 22, had become upset when she refused to give him drugs.

She said Byther threw candles around their apartment and kicked the television, then punched her in the back. Lawrence said the woman showed him a red welt. The woman told Lawrence that Byther pulled the phone cord out of the wall so she couldn’t call the police, and disconnected wires in her car so she couldn’t leave. Byther then left on a bicycle, the woman said.

Byther came back while Lawrence was there, and the officer asked him what had happened. Byther told Lawrence that his girlfriend flipped out during an argument about his friends. Byther said the woman pulled the phone out of the wall so Byther couldn’t call his friends. He admitted unplugging the car wires, Lawrence said.

Lawrence arrested Byther on charges of domestic assault and obstructing the report of a crime.

Lawrence said the complainant refused to write a statement or fill out a domestic violence form.

Two mailboxes fell victim to a vehicular assault Wednesday night in Brewer.

Brewer police Officer Roger Hershey said two mailboxes on Hillside Boulevard were damaged sometime Wednesday night.

Nobody in the area saw or heard anything suspicious, Hershey said. It appeared that a car had caused the damage, leaving tire marks on the flatter of the two boxes. It was so flat, Hershey said, that “you could have slipped it under a door.”

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball