Authorities have recovered some of the estimated $9,000 in tools taken from a Holden construction site, including some items recovered from an Eddington home. No charges have been filed yet and police said Thursday that the investigation will continue. The tools were taken sometime early… Read More
A Hancock motorist suspected of being intoxicated had to worry not only about field sobriety tests early Wednesday morning, but also about her small dog, which kept escaping from the car. Bangor police Officer Brent Beaulieu stopped the small blue car driven by Shannon L. Read More
A woman abandoned by her boyfriend on Route 9 in Brewer early Monday morning showed police signs that she had been involved in an assault. A truck driver spotted the woman and called police about 1:20 a.m. and the woman was brought to the police… Read More
Old Town police on Sunday were investigating a hit-and-run accident that sent a 78-year-old pedestrian to the hospital. Michael Salvato of Old Town was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center and released, a hospital nursing supervisor said Sunday. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
Bangor police arrested a Court Street woman Friday after her claims that a former girlfriend broke into her apartment and assaulted her proved false, according to officers. Susan Swoboda, 35, also faces a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after a search of her apartment… Read More
While escorting an ambulance to Bangor on Saturday, a Brewer police officer spotted a car whose owners he knew had suspended driver’s licenses. A few minutes later, with the aid of Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan, Brewer police Officer Fred Luce found the car pulling… Read More
A Frankfort man received minor injuries and an OUI charge Tuesday night after he rolled over his pickup truck on Route 1 in Winterport. Laurence Redmond, 53, was headed south on Route 1 at 6:30 p.m. when he swerved onto the soft shoulder and traveled… Read More
A Belfast driver picked the wrong driveway to pull into after noticing he was being followed by a Hampden patrol officer Friday night. Before the night ended, Christopher Lawrence, 19, had been arrested on two charges and summoned in connection with a third. Lawrence was… Read More
A woman who backed into a parked car after leaving the Mount Hope Variety store in Bangor on Tuesday was intoxicated and shouldn’t have been driving, according to police. While investigating the minor motor vehicle accident, Officer Chris Desmond noted that motorist Teresa Hodges, 44,… Read More
While searching a Bangor man wanted on warrants early Tuesday morning, Brewer police found a marijuana roach and five foil strips containing LSD, all hidden under a sole insert in one of his shoes, according to reports. Police also found two sheets of perforated blotter… Read More
A Carmel man returned to his home late Sunday afternoon and discovered a burglar inside and one waiting outside as a lookout, he told authorities. The surprised thieves fled, one speeding off in a car and the other apparently running into nearby woods. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Bangor police took a 39-year-old Bangor man into custody after he threatened to stick a police officer with the knife he had been waiving about as he walked along Center Street early Friday morning. John Eaton Jr. faces charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous… Read More
Two naked women took their protest of federal legislation giving police more authority to the streets last week and subsequently were arrested. Orono police Officer Josh Ewing was watching traffic on Main Street about 11:45 p.m. Nov. 2 when he heard, then saw, something that… Read More
A Bangor man was arrested Monday night less than an hour after allegedly stealing a van in front of a Pine Street residence in Bangor. A 1997 Chevrolet van was reported stolen at 11:30 p.m. by the owner. Officer Allen Woolley of the Bangor Police… Read More
An apparently intoxicated man refused to leave Eastern Maine Medical Center early Monday morning and was charged with criminal trespass. Officer Russell Twaddell reported that he was called to EMMC at 4:21 a.m. and found hospital security officers with Jason Cozzie, 31, of Bangor. Cozzie… Read More
Three teen-agers led Brewer police on a brief chase Sunday afternoon and were charged with theft in connection with a stolen purse. Police were sent to the North Brewer Shopping Center about 4:45 p.m. when a woman reported that a man had taken her purse… Read More
Scheduled to go to trial for charges of criminal trespass and violation of bail conditions, 50-year-old Vaughn C. Scott showed up at a Bangor courthouse in an intoxicated state Thursday and was arrested, according to police. It was in the waiting area at the 3rd… Read More
A white powder found in an envelope mailed to a South Water Street home in Old Town earlier this month was not anthrax, according to police who have started a criminal investigation into the matter. Detective Michael Holmes said Tuesday that with a state laboratory’s… Read More
Two small, empty pink packets found Saturday in the purse of a Bangor woman have been turned over to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, according to Bangor police. Karen Thompson, 41, was arrested without incident on a warrant for theft from Hancock County. The packets… Read More
Bangor police were called to a rooming house at 73 First St. Sunday night for a report of a fight in a common area of the home. Upon arriving, police found the commotion upstairs where one man was restraining 30-year-old Robert Harding whom witnesses and… Read More
Bangor police investigated a theft reported Sunday afternoon by a clerk at a Stillwater Avenue convenience store. The incident occurred about 1 p.m., when an unidentified male customer entered Stillwater Convenience, 340 Stillwater Ave., to buy four packages of cigarettes and a newspaper worth a… Read More
The first time a Bangor woman called police to have her former boyfriend removed from her home Saturday, he left by himself before anybody responded. The second time it required a police escort. The Sunset Avenue woman told Officer Catherine Rumsey that she awoke to… Read More
A 17-year-old Orono youth already on probation for an assault was arrested earlier this week after it was reported he assaulted his younger brother and took money from him. Orono police were called to Middle Street at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday for a report of… Read More
Intruder awakens Bangor couple Resident finds man hiding downstairs; police charge criminal trespass
A Garland Street couple with a 9-month-old son awoke early Monday morning to the sounds of someone downstairs in their home. The husband went downstairs to confront the intruder and told police he saw a man, later identified as Jeffrey Bovat, 20, trying to hide… Read More
A Bangor woman told police that her live-in boyfriend threatened to kill her when she returned home from a bar after he did early Saturday morning. The woman said that she called home before she left the bar and boyfriend George Pinkham, 37, told her… Read More
A convicted sex offender wanted in Oregon was arrested in Bangor on Wednesday by police investigating a report of an assault. Jack H. Heflin, 30, was not charged with assault – there were conflicting accounts and unanswered questions, police reported – although he was taken… Read More
Cauley Connell, 43, of Bangor faces a domestic assault charge after it was reported he struck his girlfriend in the head with a telephone Monday. Bangor police were called to Connell’s apartment at 122 Court St. about 2:10 a.m. for a report of a fight… Read More
Three Hampden men were arrested late Friday night after Bangor police officers allegedly caught them in the process of damaging and burglarizing three vehicles and a utility trailer belonging to two of the construction companies hired to build the new Stillwater interchange on Interstate 95. Read More
A Bangor man was caught first on a convenience store surveillance camera and then by police, who charged him with the theft of beer. Shortly before midnight Thursday, a man dressed in a green sweat shirt and running pants and sporting a dyed-blond coif ran… Read More
Wanted in Portland on a larceny charge, 43-year-old Rita A. Devito was walking in the middle of traffic on Stillwater Avenue on Monday after taking a purse from the Goodwill store, according to police. Officer Robert Hutchings was called to Stillwater Avenue about 6:40 p.m. Read More
A 13-year-old Orono boy remains under house arrest after police found he had broken into a woman’s home late Sunday night and had a loaded semiautomatic gun with him. The boy admitted to taking a credit card and ID from another residence at Talmar Wood… Read More
Confronted about taking nine DVD movies from the Bangor Wal-Mart on Tuesday evening, an Old Town man struggled with a Bangor police officer and others, netting him several other charges besides the theft, according to police. Michael S. Voye, 24, faces charges of assault, assault… Read More
A Bangor businessman reported to local police Thursday that his company was the victim of an international scam that is under investigation by federal authorities in this country. The owner of Automated Business Concepts had contacted authorities in Texas and at the federal level to… Read More
A Bangor woman wanted to meet her former Milo boyfriend alone outside a Bangor shoe outlet Tuesday, but he showed up with the police in an attempt to curtail what he said was the woman’s continuing harassment. Initially fleeing from police, 32-year-old Karen McInnis tied… Read More
Authorities in Penobscot and Cumberland counties said Sunday they are investigating a report that a woman was forcibly driven from South Portland 125 miles north to Exeter, where she was able to break free from a male captor and call deputies. Deputy Tom Burgess of… Read More
Bangor police charged a Boynton Street man with domestic assault after it was reported he choked his girlfriend, who is seven months pregnant. Nigel Hall’s pregnant girlfriend came to the Bangor police station Tuesday afternoon, a short time after the alleged assault by her 20-year-old… Read More
A car left in neutral on Hammond Street in Bangor rolled through a five-way intersection and crashed into a building, injuring the passenger and sole occupant of the car. Alice Farver, 90, suffered bruises and abrasions on her legs as a result of the accident. Read More
Two Bangor men awoke to noises in their Cottage Street residence early Tuesday morning and found that a 16-year-old girl had broken in and was stacking alcohol, food and DVDs on the floor in preparation for her getaway, police said. They called police about 4:40… Read More
Bangor police arrested a 43-year-old man on a drunken driving charge and this week also linked him to the theft of hundreds of dollars from the vending machine company where he once worked. Steven A. Gallant of Bangor faces a charge of operating a motor… Read More
An 11-year-old faces several charges, including two felonies, after Veazie police linked him to daytime break-ins at three vacant mobile homes this week. In one of the homes, the boy kicked or punched a half-dozen holes in the walls, ripped off smoke detectors and strewed… Read More
A Portland woman who seemed headed to the hospital with a possible drug overdose Sunday morning instead faces charges of disorderly conduct. The Bangor Police Department sent three officers to the Econo Lodge – Brad Hanson, Keith Mercier and Sgt. Bob Bishop – after a… Read More
A pickup truck struck a sport utility vehicle Friday on South Main Street in Old Town, sending the SUV off the road and into a porch. No injuries were reported, although the SUV was totaled and the porch received substantial damage, according to the police… Read More
With less than two weeks before his court appearance on charges related to a series of thefts and the use of homemade explosives, a 15-year-old Veazie boy fled the state late last week, headed to Daytona, Fla., in his mother’s car, police said. The boy… Read More
An out-of-control car drove onto a Main Street sidewalk Saturday night in Bangor before striking a building and continuing on, knocking down a light post and hitting a bike rack, according to police. One of the six people inside the 1990 Buick Century reported slight… Read More
Old Town police arrested a Lincoln man Saturday night for drunken driving, an hour after warning him not to drive. Sgt. Michael Hashey was called to the Shop ‘n Save parking lot about 9 p.m. and found 35-year-old Dale Jordan, as a witness had reported,… Read More
An altercation in a car Saturday night continued onto an Old Town street where police found a 41-year-old woman apparently taking a swing at her son. Mary Attean, 41, of Old Town faces a charge of domestic assault on her 20-year-old son as well as… Read More
A routine patrol stop was anything but routine early on the morning of July 26 when a motorist fled from Brewer police on foot and then squared off with a pursuing officer. Officer David Lord stopped the pickup truck for speeding, pulling it over about… Read More
A Bangor police officer who tried to curtail a woman’s attempts to cut herself with a knife became the target of the woman’s rage, police said. Despite being ordered to drop the knife, the resident of the mental health home on Harlow Street continued to… Read More
Governor’s Restaurant in Old Town was evacuated and searched by police and firefighters Tuesday evening after several bomb threats were made. No bombs were found and the case is under investigation, reported Sgt. Travis Roy of the Old Town Police Department. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
As he sped along, a Palmyra motorist told his distraught passenger not to worry, that the police cruiser in pursuit behind them would never catch up with them late Thursday night. But Michael J. Cole, 19, of Palmyra later told police that he had to… Read More
A motorist who observed a man he thought was intoxicated driving his car to the Ohio Street 7-Eleven just before midnight Tuesday alerted Bangor police on patrol. They subsequently arrested the driver and his passenger on a variety of charges. The silver Mazda sedan driven… Read More
A woman came to Bangor police Monday to complain that Randy A. Place of Brewer, 40, was continuing to harass her at her workplace, stating that he had been getting her in trouble with her employer although she had asked him to stop calling on the phone. Read More
A Bangor motorist whose license was suspended told police Sunday that he was behind the wheel because his father wanted him to test-drive his new truck. Police had been told that the man was also intoxicated. Bangor police officers were called to the Efficiency apartments… Read More
A Bangor man suffered a broken jaw Friday night during a fight in the parking lot at the Irving Mainway on Main Street in Bangor. Colby Gray of Bangor was treated for a broken jaw at Eastern Maine Medical Center late Friday night, and is… Read More
The warning signs of an approaching train were there, but the driver of a dump truck missed them and the truck was hit in the rear by a slow-moving freight train Friday, according to police. In what was being described as a “close call,” the… Read More
Angered by being cut off by another motorist Thursday, a Brewer man got out of his vehicle at a red light and struck the other motorist in the head, according to police reports. Richard Ward, 33, of 823 North Main St. was charged with assault… Read More
An 87-year-old Waterville woman was injured after she pulled out in front of a pickup truck at what was described as an “awful” intersection in Glenburn Wednesday evening. Marion Paige was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, where a nursing supervisor could not comment… Read More
A Dixmont man rear-ended a Bangor police cruiser Tuesday afternoon, telling police that he had been distracted while giving the finger to another motorist alongside him. Officers Tim Cotton and Catherine Rumsey were headed onto Union Street from the Interstate 95 southbound lane when their… Read More
A Bangor couple was arrested after an early morning argument turned physical and wound up outside, where it was witnessed by neighbors and passers-by, according to police. Rachael M. Nickerson, 19, and Eric Charbonneau, 21, each face charges of domestic assault, while Nickerson also was… Read More
A bonsai tree was taken Friday night from the back deck of a second-floor Bangor apartment, according to a police report. The tree was kept on the deck with several other bonsai, according to the resident who told Officer Shawn Green that the tree is… Read More
Bangor police on Friday reported several arrests for driving while intoxicated and for theft. Jeffrey Molkler, 21, of Orono was stopped at about 7 a.m. Friday as he drove away from Denny’s Restaurant on Hogan Road after a witness called police to report erratic driving. Read More
Spray graffiti at the Mary Snow School in Bangor may cost as much as $400 to remove, a school employee reported to police. The damage was discovered about 7 a.m. Thursday at the school at 435 Broadway. The back of the building and a Dumpster… Read More
Veazie police linked two 15-year-old friends to several crimes including the manufacturing and setting off of homemade explosives inside Silver’s Trailer Park. Some of the charges stem from an incident a year ago, while the more serious incidents, those involving the explosives, happened last week. Read More
Orono police recently arrested a 54-year-old man and charged him with assaulting his wife, only to arrest the wife as well after she sought to prevent the arrest and struck a police officer, according to reports. Stephan Manzo was charged with domestic assault while his… Read More
Old Town police sent 46-year-old Lloyd R. Bryant on his way following a dispute at a downtown bar Monday, but with the warning that he not step foot on the property of his girlfriend, who was the other party involved in the argument. But minutes… Read More
A security guard was caught rifling through cars at a construction site parking lot he had been hired to keep an eye on, according to police. Bangor police charged 35-year-old David Chandler of Brewer with burglary of a motor vehicle Friday night after a fellow… Read More
Early Friday morning, Brewer police were called to Chamberlain Street for a report of a suspicious man prowling the area with a flashlight. Shortly after 2 a.m., Cpl. Keith Emery and Officer David Lord approached the area with their cruiser lights off, trying to get… Read More
There was no voice on the other end of the phone call to Bangor police on Wednesday afternoon, but a man who couldn’t speak answered yes or no questions from a police dispatcher by tapping on the phone. The call from 58 Perkins Ave. came… Read More
A Bangor woman said that her live-in boyfriend returned home from a successful job interview very happy Tuesday afternoon, but became enraged and physically violent after he felt she wasn’t happy enough at his landing a job, according to police. At first Michael Willis, 20,… Read More
A bartender at Judy’s Restaurant on State Street in Bangor claimed a man attempted to pay for a beer with a counterfeit $20 bill over the weekend. When the bartender said she determined the bill was fake, she asked the man to wait while she… Read More
Two McDonald’s restaurants and a 7-Eleven in Bangor reported that someone tried to pass off fake money earlier this week. The night manager at the 7-Eleven on Broadway contacted Bangor police at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday and reported that a man in his late teens or… Read More
Two more mailboxes were smashed Monday night in the latest of a monthlong string of anonymous drive-by mailbox smashings along some of Hampden’s well-traveled roads. According to Sgt. Scott Webber of the Hampden Police Department, 20 mailboxes have been smashed by full iced tea and… Read More
On her way to District Court in Bangor Monday morning to deal with a charge of driving with a suspended license, a Bangor woman was arrested on the same charge and for drunken driving. Nancy G. Nadeau, 44, was driving an unregistered blue Honda Civic… Read More
Bangor police arrested two men early Sunday morning in connection with an incident at a State Street convenience store involving alcohol. Oscar Hughes, 34, of Bangor was charged with operating under the influence and operating after suspension. Lloyd Simpson, 39, of Newburgh was arrested on… Read More
Bangor police arrested a 19-year-old transient in connection with several motor vehicle burglaries in the Pier and Hammond street areas early Tuesday morning. Several other vehicle burglaries were reported in Bangor on Monday evening, including one in which Arabic money and $1,300 in U.S. currency… Read More
A Brewer woman who locked herself in her bathroom because she thought two men were in her apartment trying to kill her was rescued with help from a neighbor Saturday, police said. Brewer police were sent to the South Main Street home at 1:30 a.m. Read More
A 22-year-old West Enfield man was arrested and charged with driving to endanger after his motorcycle narrowly missed hitting Bangor police Officer James Dearing’s patrol car Sunday. Dearing rounded a curve on Central Street while investigating the report of a loud motorcycle engine in the… Read More
A Veazie man who skipped his court date so that he could go camping over the extended Memorial Day weekend was arrested Thursday on more than a half-dozen warrants. Mark Chapman, 18, was spotted sitting on his girlfriend’s porch at the Greystone Trailer Park by… Read More
A Linneus man was listed in stable condition at Houlton Regional Hospital Friday afternoon with injuries he suffered in a tractor-trailer truck accident early that morning. Leonard Sabattis, 56, was driving south shortly before 1 a.m. on Interstate 95 en route to Topsham to pick… Read More
A desk attendant at the EconoLodge in Bangor called police to have two males, whose loud behavior was disturbing other lodgers, removed from the premises early Thursday morning. After receiving a noise complaint, the attendant called the men in Room 317 and asked them to quiet down. After… Read More
With his back to the living room window, a 16-year-old Old Town youth rolling a marijuana cigarette didn’t realize he had an audience. But police called to the Union Street home on another matter watched as the boy prepared the marijuana joint on a tray… Read More
An early mobile fireworks display prompted the Bangor police to summon two of four people inside a car late Wednesday night. Officers Chad Foley and George Spencer were on bike patrol in the area of York and Pine streets shortly before midnight when they heard… Read More
The Orono Police Department is looking for the driver of a 1996 dark blue Ford Explorer who struck a generator for a sewage pump near the corner of North Main and Penobscot streets Wednesday at 12:30 a.m. The driver hit and destroyed a chain-link fence… Read More
A noontime accident in Hampden on Saturday resulted in minor injuries, but both vehicles involved were demolished. The crash occurred at 11:55 a.m. on Route 1A in front of Calkins Farm Stand. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
A late-night party that included live bands and movies displayed on a barn wall in Orono on Saturday drew hundreds of people and required police from at least seven agencies to break up after authorities were called in to quiet it down. It took police… Read More
A report of two men fighting over a parking spot Wednesday night brought Brewer police to the Village Green Motel, but it was a woman in distress that caught their attention. The woman came out from one of the rooms, dressed in a bathrobe and… Read More
BANGOR – A 31-year-old man was arrested twice over the weekend. James Leroy McArthur was charged with domestic assault on Saturday, then charged with criminal mischief and violation of release 31/2 hours later. Bangor police responded to a family fight complaint about 11 p.m. Saturday… Read More
As Police Chief Steve Barker searched for anyone injured in the three-vehicle accident on Wilson Street early Friday afternoon, he saw one motorist covered in blood, or was it? The impact of the accident had dented cars and sent debris all over the road. Clutching… Read More
A New York man came to Bangor to be with his girlfriend and he followed her into police custody Thursday after authorities were called to their residence on a report of a fight. Bangor police charged Tabatha S. Baker, 19, with domestic assault for slapping… Read More
A Bangor woman said she fabricated a story about being assaulted by three men outside the Brewer convenience store where she worked in the hopes that her boss would take her off the graveyard shift. Brewer police charged Rebecca Glidden, 23, with filing a false… Read More
A Corinth woman reported that her ex-husband, who had returned to living with her, threatened to kill her and assaulted her Thursday night, including throwing her on the ground. Taken into custody was David Spellman, 40, who faces charges of criminal threatening and domestic assault. Read More
A truck stolen from Bangor on Monday wound up off the road in Orrington later that night, and on the way the driver stole gasoline from a Brewer convenience store and rear-ended a parked car, police said. Making matters worse, after the crash on Route… Read More
A transient man walked up to the drive-through window at the KeyBank branch on Bangor Mall Boulevard on Monday afternoon and wielded a knife, police said. The man, identified as 44-year-old Daniel Joseph Jank, held the knife in his hand and just smiled, two bank… Read More
A trip to Bangor to get a new muffler ended in the arrest of a Brewer man Tuesday after police noticed he was driving erratically. Responding to a call from the Brewer Police Department, Officer Larry A. Merrill of the Bangor Police Department followed a… Read More
When a 22-year-old Bangor man was asked what his car was doing in a Broadway ditch, he told police “he had an argument with a deer last night and went off the road.” Brian T. Ames Jr. of Bangor claimed he was planning to return… Read More
A Bangor woman told police she was in fear earlier this week when her estranged husband entered her home and grabbed her and the phone when she tried to call police. Orville A. “Sonny” Patterson Jr., 53, of Holden was arrested Friday and charged with… Read More
One or more burglars broke into the Newburgh town office earlier this week, forcing open cabinets and desk drawers but seemingly taking nothing of value. The break-in is believed to have occurred sometime late Sunday night or early Monday morning, reported Sgt. William Birch of… Read More
Moments after being warned by Brewer police officers to quiet down earlier this week, a woman slammed the door, an act that was accompanied by a loud expletive directed at the departing officers, police said. That prompted the officers to return down the hallway at… Read More
Bangor police on Tuesday reported several burglaries and thefts and the arrest of a Newburgh man on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Bangor Officer Larry Morrill said that on Monday $764 was reported stolen from a… Read More
Bangor police reported several burglaries and thefts Monday. In a separate case, police also arrested a 23-year-old man on warrants for traffic offenses and failing to appear in court. The theft of a $1,540 kerosene heater from a display modular home on Odlin Road produced… Read More