A family reunion turned sour when a Hampden man allegedly tackled his wife outside a Bangor bar just before 1 a.m. Sunday, punched her nearly 20 times and slammed her head onto the parking lot pavement, police said. Christopher Mansell, 30, had been kicked out… Read More
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,… Read More
Fire crews from Hampden, Hermon and Newburgh went to the scene of a fire at the Sawyer Environmental Recovery Facility near Dysart’s Truck Stop on Thursday night. According to Lt. Dale Stout of the Hermon Fire Department, this fire marked the second time this year… Read More
Bangor police arrested Raymond Frenier, 47, of Indiana Avenue on Monday after he allegedly stole a bottle of Allen’s blackberry brandy from Shaw’s supermarket on Main Street. According to police reports, Officer Edward Mercier found Frenier walking on First Street and questioned him about the… Read More
A California man in Bangor as part of the state fair remained in jail Monday night, charged with assaulting a man over the weekend with a metal tent stake. William J. Harper II, 18, a self-professed gang member being held at the Penobscot County Jail,… Read More
A Bangor man was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and leaving the scene of an accident after he struck a large tree at the corner of Warwick and Field streets in Bangor and left the grill of his truck… Read More
After a struggle in which the suspect injured himself and two officers’ uniforms were covered with blood, Bangor police arrested a resident of the Wellspring Inc. substance abuse home Tuesday afternoon. Officer Mike Kenney arrested Jeremy Lau, 26, at the home on 98 Cumberland St. Read More
Brewer police used pepper spray to draw a man down from on top of a pickup cab after his girlfriend reported he had assaulted her late Sunday night. Richard Miller, 40, became enraged after being sprayed and after leaving his perch, he grabbed a shovel… Read More
A Bangor woman was charged with domestic assault after an exchange of words with her girlfriend became violent, police said. Police arrested Shawna McMullen, 38, after police received a report that she had attacked her girlfriend and fled the couple’s Grove Street home shortly after… Read More
BANGOR – Two men were arrested early Thursday morning after police stopped one of them for skateboarding down Interstate 395. Bangor police spotted 21-year-old Lester Gibson of Frankfort riding his skateboard in the middle of the interstate at 1:30 a.m., according to a report by… Read More
An Arizona man was arrested at the Air National Guard base in Bangor Monday after refusing to leave the property. It was not immediately known why William Pitchford, 39, of Phoenix wanted to be on the air base, but when told to leave by Bangor… Read More
A Brewer man faces charges of aggravated cultivation of marijuana after police seized 10 marijuana plants from the woods behind his home next to the Washington Street School, police said Sunday. Police obtained a warrant to search 22-year-old Matt Spencer’s apartment and nearby property Friday… Read More
Investigators are forwarding evidence obtained from a burglary at TJ’s market in Orrington earlier this week to the state forensics laboratory and are reviewing hours of video surveillance tapes. Authorities also held a checkpoint stop of traffic on the Brewer Lake Road from midnight to… Read More
Bangor police arrested Harold Hawkes, 37, of Alton Monday evening after he allegedly wielded a baseball bat and a nonfunctioning shotgun while threatening to kill his estranged wife and two men with her. Hawkes was charged with domestic criminal threatening and two counts of criminal… Read More
A Brewer man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly assaulted his ex-wife’s boyfriend at an Orrington house, then nearly hit two pedestrians as he drove away. Andrew Hewes, 41, was charged with two counts of assault and a count of terrorizing, driving to endanger and… Read More
A Bangor man was charged with exposing himself after he was refused access to the restroom Tuesday at a downtown Bangor business. Police charged Shawab Jenkins, 26, with indecent exposure after the incident at the Intown Internet Cafe. Jenkins allegedly left the cafe upset after… Read More
In a bizarre tale with a happy ending, a 7-year-old boy Saturday had his fishing pole, a birthday present, broken by an intoxicated man. The boy was visiting his grandmother on South Main Street, where he spends a lot of time in the summer, according… Read More
After Brewer police were called to Mill Street for a report of a man jumping on top of a taxicab early Saturday, another man was arrested after arguing with officers, officials said. Police had been able to settle the problem with the man jumping onto… Read More
A Bangor man in police custody told authorities that once released he planned to kill his ex-wife, prompting police to charge him with terrorizing in addition to the trespassing charge that had gotten him arrested in the first place. It all started when Bangor police… Read More
A 20-year-old Old Town woman attempted to light fires to alert rescue personnel Friday night after she spent an hour and a half locked in a locker room at the University of Maine’s field house complex. A student at the university, the woman was in… Read More
A Bedford, Mass., man was charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after entering a Hemlock Street apartment and refusing to leave, officials said. Jack Brewer, 35, had entered the apartment without the permission of the people living there just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday and… Read More
Bangor police arrested Stanley C. Davis, 42, of 64 Center St. on Tuesday night at his home after he allegedly threatened to shoot his roommate. According to police, Davis accused his female roommate of “nagging” him about another female she had found with him in… Read More
An attempted home invasion in Brewer was thwarted just before midnight Sunday when a woman investigated a suspicious noise at the front door of her North Main Street apartment and found someone trying to break in, police said. The woman initially thought the noise was… Read More
An Oregon man was taken to a Bangor hospital after he was denied access to a flight at Bangor International Airport on Saturday, police said. The 70-year-old man had been attempting to board American Airlines Flight 4643 when he was randomly selected to be searched,… Read More
Prohibited from being within 100 feet of 28 Sixth St. in Bangor after his arrest in April for allegedly assaulting his wife, Douglas Smilie was found inside the building early Friday morning. According to police who were called to the two-apartment building for a report… Read More
A 16-year-old from Bangor told police that while he was sitting on a couch smoking a cigarette Monday night someone assaulted him, punching him into unconsciousness. Bangor police spoke to the teen-ager in the Eastern Maine Medical Center Emergency Room where he was on a… Read More
A Bangor man turned himself in shortly after fleeing his vehicle and police when officers attempted to pull him over for a broken headlight, officials said. Joseph Derouin, 18, had been driving his mother’s 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass on Forest Avenue when police attempted to pull… Read More
A Hampden contractor working on the roof of a home on Fifth Street in Bangor reported that his pickup truck was stolen early Tuesday morning. The contractor narrowed down the time of the theft to a 10- to 15-minute window between trips to his truck… Read More
A man claiming to be a Canadian customs agent contacted an Orono woman recently saying that he had intercepted two $50,000 checks she was awarded as part of a contest. The man told her the package containing the checks was considered suspicious at the time… Read More
A car accident on Wilson Street in Brewer that injured three people Sunday night began with a cigarette, police said. A passenger in the car told police the driver of the vehicle, 36-year-old Jackie Smith of Brewer, had ash fall off her cigarette and she… Read More
A Brewer man was arrested and released Monday after police pulled him over for traveling 111 mph in a 55 mph zone in Bangor, officials said. Jared Stymiest, 18, was pulled over on Interstate 95 shortly before midnight in his 1994 Saturn after a member… Read More
Police were still pursuing leads Sunday after a Bangor couple’s home was burglarized the night before, officials said. Someone broke a window in the Union Street home before taking $200 in cash, which had been hidden within the home, and a $20 personal check, Bangor… Read More
The search for a gumball machine stolen from Days Inn in Bangor was short-lived when it was found a few miles away – just as the report that it was missing was being filed, police said Thursday. The machine had been taken from its 250… Read More
An Old Town motorcyclist escaped serious injury when a Jeep pulled in front of her on North Main Street on Tuesday afternoon, Old Town officials said. Kristy Metzgar, 23, had been traveling toward downtown on her Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven… Read More
State drug agents seized heroin and prescription medications from inside a Bangor home Monday evening, arresting one man. Jason Ashlock, 23, of Bangor was charged with trafficking in a Schedule W drug, specifically heroin, and the investigation is continuing, said Sgt. Garry Higgins, supervisory special… Read More
Bangor police were searching for details Sunday after vandals slashed the tires and broke off the side-view mirrors of nearly 20 cars in the parking lots of Main Street Inn and Holiday Inn on Main Street, officials said. Damage to the cars were still being… Read More
What began as a ride downtown became a brief high-speed chase with Bangor police late Thursday night where speeds for the lead car reached an estimated 130 mph on Interstate 95. Derek R. Lacadie, 19, of Milford was arrested after he pulled over his sports… Read More
A Bucksport woman who was arrested for punching a nurse who was trying to treat her Tuesday refused to sign the summons with her real name. Instead she signed as Madam Cynthia. Rinska West, 36, apparently became angry at staff at St. Joseph Hospital in… Read More
A Glenburn man was charged with possession of a usable amount of marijuana after a friend he had been riding with in a car admitted to police that the group they were in had been smoking marijuana, officials said. Old Town police Sgt. Michael Hashey… Read More
State police are looking for the driver of a blue Ford car that struck a 13-year-old boy in Carmel and kept going. The teen-ager was standing on the side of Route 69 with a scooter about 7:45 p.m. when the car drove by him close… Read More
Brewer police seized marijuana and prescription medications from a Clifton couple they had stopped Wednesday night on North Main Street for driving a car with a loud exhaust. According to Cpl. Levi Sewall, Brenda Sjostrom, 39, was the driver of the black 1988 Chevrolet Corsica… Read More
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… Read More
In trying to explain what had caused the damage to his car, Ernest Chubbuck, 51, told Old Town police Monday that the tire “just fell off,” although pieces of the car’s signal lights imbedded in a telephone pole told police a different story. The Orono… Read More
Three men were charged with aggravated assault Saturday afternoon after a doctor reported that a man the three allegedly had attacked just before 2 a.m. in Old Town would need numerous surgeries to repair his right eye and would suffer permanent damage to his retina, officials said. Read More
“Flying” is how witnesses described the approach of a Chevrolet Beretta that struck a pickup truck on State Street hill Friday afternoon, lifting the truck off the ground and causing it to roll over. No injuries but extensive damage were reported in the incident that… Read More
A 23-year-old Bangor man whose driver’s license was suspended tried unsuccessfully to convince Brewer police late Monday night that he was his brother, whose license was recently issued and unblemished. But the investigating officers had their suspicions that the man claiming to be Duane Peoples… Read More
A Carmel woman escaped serious injury when her car went off the road on Route 2 in Hermon on Sunday evening, officials said. Amanda Swartz, 22, complained of neck and knee pain after she lost control of her black 1990 Chevy Lumina while driving south… Read More
A 21-year-old transient man who spent at least several nights in the basement of a University of Maine dormitory even though he wasn’t a student, was charged this week in connection with the theft of a laptop computer from the campus and with stealing his mother’s car. Read More
A Bangor man said he was attacked by four other men and a pit bull in downtown Bangor on Tuesday afternoon after he had confronted a woman who he said had insulted him. One of the men, Justin R. Andrews, 19, of Bangor was summoned… Read More
A Brewer man and a Levant woman were arrested after the woman struck the man with her car in a domestic dispute, officials said. Bangor police Officer George Spencer noticed the pair arguing on Hammond Street just before 1 a.m. Monday. The officer saw Michelle… Read More
A pickup truck went off Interstate 95 Saturday after the driver swerved to avoid two cars that had slowed on the downward side of a small hill on the highway in Old Town. The driver, Michael Corbin, 31, of Searsport, was uninjured although his passenger,… Read More
An Ellsworth man was arrested in Brewer after he crashed his friend’s car into a wall on a dare in Bangor late Wednesday night. Although damage to the 1995 Ford Mustang was extensive, 36-year-old Michael Powell managed to drive it away from behind a Main… Read More
Two transients were arrested Sunday evening after allegedly stealing a car owned by Angelo’s Pizzeria from the restaurant’s 499 Hammond St. location in Bangor, police said Monday. Police arrested Jatonya Jones, 18, and Detric Stanley, 19, after police found them in a car parked behind… Read More
A 14-year-old boy led Bangor police on a foot chase that ended after a police dog tracked him to his hiding spot, inside a sports utility vehicle parked in a driveway Thursday night. The teen-ager, whose name was not being released because he is a… Read More
An Orrington man was charged with assault after it was reported that he became combative with staff and security at Eastern Maine Medical Center when they refused to increase his pain medication. Bangor police officers were called to the fifth floor of the Bangor hospital… Read More
Brewer police arrested a Winterport man Friday night after a four-hour search found him in a Bangor home, officials said. Travis Whittlessey, 19, was arrested and charged with probation violation after eluding police from Brewer to Bangor from 4:40 to 8:20 p.m., Brewer police Cpl. Read More
Kittery police arrested a 14-year-old Hermon boy Thursday after discovering his age, the fact he didn’t have a license, and that the vehicle he had been driving had been stolen from Hermon. The youth was stopped during a routine traffic stop in Kittery, officials said. Read More
A Holden man suffered broken bones in his legs and pelvis after road conditions and driver inexperience forced him into a slide on his motorcycle Tuesday night on the Hampden Road in Carmel, officials said. James Collins, 19, had been riding his 2002 Suzuki motorcycle… Read More
Police still were investigating a theft Sunday night after an Orono man noticed that morning that someone had put his car on cinder blocks and stolen his new tires and rims, police said. The man last noticed his car with tires and rims Wednesday, police… Read More
Bangor police summoned Scott R. Demmons II, 20, of Bangor on a charge of assault after it was reported he had scuffled with a woman and tried to throw away her luggage Friday afternoon. Witnesses said it didn’t appear Demmons was trying to steal the… Read More
Investigators are still looking into what caused a pickup truck carrying three people to lose control Tuesday on Route 2 in Hermon and clip a utility pole before rolling over. All three people had to be extricated from the heavily damaged 1986 Dodge pickup truck… Read More
Police said a transient man who went to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor looking for a psychological examination went “ballistic” inside an exam room, tearing off a faucet and swinging it at the staff. Shawab Jenkins, 25, entered the hospital shortly before 4 p.m. Read More
A 16-year-old was arrested Monday night after allegedly attacking two staff members, another juvenile resident and a Hampden police officer, and breaking 10 windows and two doors at a group home in Hampden. The 6-foot-1, 290-pound juvenile became angered after fellow residents at Aspen Ledge… Read More
Police arrested three men in a University of Maine residence hall Sunday and charged each with possession of scheduled drugs. Gregory Willoughby, 24, of Glenburn and Daniel Logan, 18, of Bangor each was charged with possession of Ecstasy after an amount equaling one crushed pill… Read More
A 41-year-old Greenbush woman told Old Town police she had been assaulted by her husband during an argument and that she feared he’d return to their home and use his firearms against her. During the fight on North Main Street in Old Town, the woman… Read More
A transient’s plans to leave Bangor on a bus were cut short this week after police linked him to two thefts, including one caught on tape at Dunkin’ Donuts. According to police, Michael Mallia, 41, had a stolen checkbook in his possession when they arrested… Read More
Less than 40 minutes after Bangor police removed John Toolin from his former girlfriend’s home Monday night, officers were called back to the Sunset Avenue residence. Toolin had returned, forced his way in and assaulted the woman, according to police. Bangor police officers first were… Read More
A Bangor man whose license was suspended led police on a brief chase through a residential area Monday afternoon that ended when the man lost control of his car and became stuck in the mud. Jeffrey Fox, 35, who also goes by the name Scott… Read More
A Hermon man was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and refusing to submit to arrest after refusing to leave a Bangor nightclub Sunday morning. After police broke up a fight between Philip Allen, 26, and an unidentified man, Allen refused to leave the Odlin… Read More
A Corinth man was charged with terrorizing after it was alleged that he told a bouncer at a Bangor adult club that he “oughta” shoot him and police found a loaded gun inside the man’s truck. The incident followed an argument that Steven J. Haskell,… Read More
A Bangor woman was charged with assault after police said she attacked her husband and stabbed herself in the leg Sunday morning. Linda McLaughlin, 40, was upset with her husband for not becoming angry when she flirted with other men at a local bar and… Read More
A Bangor man faces several charges, including assault on a police officer, after he began to fight with authorities who were trying to get him to leave a Bangor nightclub early Thursday morning. Nicholas Tilden, 23, also was charged with disorderly conduct and failure to… Read More
A 37-year-old motorist stopped for speeding Wednesday night on Ohio Street in Bangor admitted that he had been drinking and went as far as to tell the Bangor police officer, “I’m drunk,” and that he should take him in. William G. Osgood of Bangor was… Read More
Police were looking Sunday for the person who smashed the driver’s side window and smeared cake across the top of a car on Hancock Street in Bangor. The owner of the car reported the incident at 10 a.m. Sunday and gave police the name of… Read More
A Cape Elizabeth man faces a drunken driving charge after he was found slumped over the steering wheel of a pickup truck that came within a few feet of hitting an apartment complex in Old Town early Sunday morning. David Chandler Jones Jr., 20, also… Read More
A Brooksville man wanted in Hancock County was arrested in Bangor early Monday morning after police stopped him for erratic driving. Eugene M. Cox, 27, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, operating a motor vehicle after suspension and… Read More
Bangor police are looking for the man suspected of breaking into seven motor vehicles near Bangor Mall Boulevard on Thursday and pilfering everything from a $5 pair of sunglasses to a $500 snowboard and getting away in a car stolen from New York. Bangor police… Read More
Police said they arrested a woman Thursday afternoon when she failed her field sobriety test after being stopped while driving on Hammond Street. Kimberly Furbish, 33, of Bangor was driving 41 mph in a 25-mph zone when Officer Shawn Green pulled her over. As Green… Read More
Bangor police arrested 34-year-old Billy Pinkham after it was reported he assaulted his girlfriend late Monday night and damaged her apartment and belongings. Called to the Second Street apartment building shortly before midnight, several police officers could hear yelling coming from inside as well as… Read More
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… Read More
Old Town police arrested a 27-year-old man after it was reported he lifted up his girlfriend by the shirt collar and shook her. Police charged Aaron Glenn McKusick of Old Town with domestic assault following the incident at 669 Stillwater Ave. on Monday. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
A Bangor business lost almost $2,400 worth of computer hardware and office supplies in a burglary that took place sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Officer Erik Tall of the Bangor Police Department went to Sawmill Publishing on Central Street Tuesday morning after an… Read More
Bangor police arrested a 36-year-old transient Saturday after a report that he forced his way into a Second Street apartment and waved a gun around, demanding money from the people inside. Jeffrey Simpson was charged with criminal threatening with a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon… Read More
An Eddington man who police said was the sole occupant of a stolen car when they caught up with it early Thursday morning claimed that another man had been behind the wheel and had forced him to drive before fleeing. The blue 2001 Saturn bearing… Read More
A Hampden man denied discharging a fire extinguisher inside a Bangor motel hallway and creating other mayhem, but admitted he did try to spar with other motel patrons. “Yeah, I slapped a couple of guys around to show them what’s up, but you got the… Read More
A 43-year-old Carmel man punched another man and allegedly chased him and threatened to kill him, all for $10 he claimed he was owed. Richard E. Hyson was charged with assault and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon Thursday night following the incident at the… Read More
It was a situation many people could empathize with in these days of snow and ice, just on a grander scale. A tractor-trailer driver looking for the location where he was to pick up his cargo pulled into the parking lot at the Pilots Grill… Read More
Old Town police arrested a 21-year-old local man this week after it was reported he had barged into his former girlfriend’s home and assaulted her. The 19-year-old woman told police late Tuesday night that Wayne Robert Stilphen abruptly entered her residence at the Pine Haven… Read More
A South Carolina man wanted by the FBI and federal postal investigators turned himself in to Brewer police Wednesday morning. Robert Holton, 21, came into the police station, confessing to Officer Fred Luce that he had rented a car in Las Vegas in May 2001… Read More
A Bangor couple’s New Year’s Eve celebration went awry after the wife reportedly became intoxicated and violent, biting her husband on the arm. Denise Savoy, 43, also became angry with police, swinging, kicking and spitting at them when they took her into custody, according to… Read More
Bangor police arrested a Corinth man early Saturday after it was reported he wielded what appeared to be a gun while trying to break into a motel room. Joseph Scott Reeves, 21, was being charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a… Read More
A mattress fell off a pickup truck and crashed into a car behind it on I-395 in Bangor around 5:45 p.m. Friday, sparking a fire in the car, which in turn resulted in an accident. No injuries were reported in the accidents, although the circumstances… Read More
An Arundel man who squared off against a fellow nightclub patron and then police early Thursday morning has been arrested. Philip W. Pontbriant, 24, is being charged with failure to submit to arrest and disorderly conduct following his bouts at Barnaby’s lounge in Bangor. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Four people were taken to the hospital after a pickup truck broadsided a car on Miller Hill on Route 2 in Hermon on Wednesday afternoon. Adam Blakeway, 13, of Hermon and Larry Violette, 21, of Orland were being evaluated at Eastern Maine Medical Center in… Read More
A criminal mischief charge against two boys connected to a vandalism spree in Veazie could be upgraded to a felony once investigators determine the full extent of the damage. An 8-year-old from Indian Island and an 11-year-old from Veazie have been charged with theft and… Read More
Four area teen-agers who left on a “road trip” Friday were located Sunday by police in Indiana. Their parents reportedly were making arrangements for their return this week, according to Sgt. Troy Morton of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities declined to release the teen-agers’… Read More
A Bangor man was arrested Saturday morning for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor when police noticed that the vehicle he was driving had recently been in an accident. Police noticed John Brown, 39, driving his 1994 Chevy Astro van… Read More
A Greenfield woman was visiting her sister in Bangor late Thursday night when she was assaulted by a man who had come uninvited into the Court Street apartment. Richard Newell, 25, who lives in the same apartment building, was arrested after a bizarre confrontation with… Read More
A report of a domestic fight in which a man reportedly had a knife and possibly a gun brought all available Bangor police officers to 192 Essex St. Monday afternoon and ended with the man’s arrest. What heightened concerns was a comment overheard by a… Read More
As he made his way unsteadily along the city streets early Thursday morning, a 37-year-old Bangor man would occasionally stop at a residence and pound on the door, looking for his friend Julio. Anthony Brazzo also paid a visit to his own apartment at 183… Read More