Police in Old Town charged two Prentice Street residents Saturday night with furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol. When police responded to a report of a party at about 10:15 p.m., they found a woman in the driveway holding an alcoholic beverage. The… Read More
A Greenbush man was charged in two different incidents within 24 hours. Darryl Ogden, 34, was summoned for possession of a usable amount of marijuana Tuesday at 9:20 p.m. when Milford police pulled him over in a routine traffic stop on Bradley Road in Milford. Read More
An accident Tuesday night on Union Street in Hermon is still under investigation, but a Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy said a woman lost control while apparently trying to make a U-turn and went off the road. Constable Deputy Noel Santiago, who covers Hermon, said that… Read More
Hampden police arrested a 45-year-old Belfast man Sunday, charging him with unlawful sexual contact one day after he allegedly fondled a 13-year-old relative. Called to the Hampden residence Saturday, a Hampden police officer found that Epifanio Benitez Jr. had left the home by car. Hampden… Read More
The Bangor Police Department is looking for information regarding three cars that were burglarized Saturday while parked outside Sawyer Arena off Thirteenth Street. According to police reports, at around 5 p.m. Saturday three vehicles had windows smashed and cash, credit cards, cell phones and purses… Read More
A Colorado woman wanted on a nationwide warrant for racketeering and identity theft was arrested at her mother’s house in Millinocket Friday evening. Millinocket police received a call earlier Friday from Detective Mark Mantych of the Arvada, Colo., police department saying that he had received… Read More
State police were searching for a white pickup truck that was seen Thursday night driving north in the southbound lane of Interstate 95 near Carmel. State troopers and Hampden police blocked off southbound traffic at the Coldbrook Road around 7 p.m. and readied spike mats… Read More
Bangor police summoned two Bangor men on assault charges after a dispute Tuesday morning over a dog walking on someone’s property. Charles Robshaw, 56, said he became upset after seeing a woman walking her dog on his property in Pray’s Trailer Park, at about 8:45… Read More
A University of Maine student was charged Saturday with felony-level unlawful sexual contact, UM Public Safety Director Noel March said Monday. Joel Nguemba, 28, of Orono was arrested by UM police after he allegedly forced himself on an acquaintance who lives in the same housing… Read More
A Bangor man was issued a summons late Friday night for leaving the scene of an accident after he reportedly drove his car into a ditch and hit a utility pole, knocking out power to a handful of homes near Husson College. Kevin P. Jackson,… Read More
A Bucksport man indicted in recent months for stalking was arrested in Bangor on Thursday after it was reported he repeatedly drove past where his former girlfriend works. As part of a protection from abuse order issued against him, Jeffrey Witham, 29, was not to… Read More
A woman was arrested and a man was issued a summons early Thursday morning after police in Bangor investigated reports of a possible drug overdose. Several officers went to a Hancock Street apartment around 2:30 a.m. Police had been at the same address last week… Read More
A Bangor High School student reported to police that items had been stolen from his school locker on consecutive days this week. The 14-year-old boy told Bangor police that sometime during school Monday, someone broke into his locker and took his iPod, valued at $200. Read More
Bangor police are investigating the theft of a puppy from the Airport Mall pet store last week and Sgt. Bob Bishop said Tuesday that two juvenile suspects are being questioned in connection. The theft happened last Thursday on the same day an elderly woman had… Read More
A fight caused significant damage to a Bangor bar Saturday night, according to police. Bangor police Officer James Dearing responded to a call from the Tavern on Main Street, where it was reported that a man had thrown another patron through two plate glass windows. Read More
A Bangor couple wound up in police custody on Thursday after the woman assaulted police officers while her boyfriend was being arrested after he allegedly assaulted her, authorities said. A third person was summoned after authorities said it appeared he was trying to incite further… Read More
A custodian at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor reported this week the theft of about $4,000 worth of stuffed animals that he kept in a storage area at the school. The custodian told police that two large trash bags full of approximately 300-400… Read More
Bangor police are investigating a burglary reportedly committed early Tuesday morning in which someone made off with a few thousand dollars in cash from the Elks Club on Odlin Road. Detective Sgt. Paul Kenison said officers were called by a passer-by around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday,… Read More
A Bangor teenager was arrested for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon after police alleged that he went to the residence of a former friend and tried to swing a tire iron at him. Ransford Bubar, 19, and another man began arguing outside a Deer… Read More
An Orono man caught Saturday evening trying to steal condoms and other items from Wal-Mart in Bangor was issued a summons on charges of theft and trafficking in dangerous knives after police found an illegal butterfly-style knife in his pocket. Kevin Alari, 19, was taken… Read More
Orono police are investigating an incident from early Thursday morning during which someone reportedly stole a car and drove it briefly before crashing into a tree and then another parked car. The suspect then fled on foot, Orono police Officer Chris Watson said later Thursday. Read More
Bangor police arrested a 19-year-old woman early Tuesday morning for operating under the influence of intoxicants after watching her drive her car into a snowbank. At approximately 3:30 a.m., Officer Shawn Green began to follow the car after it twice failed to use a turn… Read More
A Bangor man was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with a drug offense. Bangor police Officers Jason Stuart and Brandon Vafiades of the Bangor Police Department responded to a call placed at 3 a.m. from a Bangor woman who said her car had been… Read More
Wanting an even deeper discount at Marden’s in Brewer on Thursday, an Orono man allegedly switched price tags on two items and returned a short time later to purchase them, only to be caught by police. Brewer police officers were called to the store around… Read More
A man who refused to give his real name to Bangor police officers Tuesday night was arrested at a Hammond Street apartment. Steven Hayden, 34, of Westbrook called 911 shortly after 11 p.m. but quickly hung up. When a dispatcher called back, Hayden said everything… Read More
Brewer police went twice to a Spring Street residence late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, and on the second visit a Brewer man was arrested and charged with several crimes. According to Sgt. Jason Moffitt and Officers Roger Hershey and Nelson Feero, a disorderly… Read More
A Brewer man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after he reportedly broke into a locked motel room and then ran from officers. Adam Freeman, 19, kicked down the door of a Brewer motel room where his mother was staying after she refused to let him… Read More
A Bangor woman was arrested Christmas night when she went to a friend’s residence and allegedly started a fight with an ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend. Bangor police arriving at the scene at about 8:30 p.m. saw Nicole Chapman, 22, running from a residence on Boynton Street. Read More
Three men were arrested early Thursday morning for disorderly conduct outside a Bangor nightspot after police were dispatched there to break up a large fight. Bangor police Officer Shawn Green responded shortly after 1 a.m. to Barnaby’s at the Ramada Inn on Odlin Road. When… Read More
A Lincoln man went to the service desk at the Bangor Wal-Mart recently hoping to locate his girlfriend; instead, he found the police there waiting for him. Jeremy Hunter, 22, was one of three people Bangor police wanted in connection with a series of thefts… Read More
A Charleston man was charged with disorderly conduct after a fight at a Bangor nightclub early Sunday morning, police said. According to reports, Bangor police Officer Chad Foley met Sgt. Bob Bishop at 1:19 a.m. at Barnaby’s at the Ramada Inn on the Odlin Road. Read More
Bangor police detectives are investigating a report of a rape earlier this week. Investigators said that it is not considered a random act. An 18-year-old woman reported the incident of gross sexual assault early Monday morning and since then authorities have been gathering evidence and… Read More
A Bangor man was spotted leaving the Union Street Hannaford supermarket on Tuesday with a red store basket containing what turned out to be items stolen from that store and others, police said. Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan spotted Peter Pelletier, 25, getting onto a… Read More
A Bangor man suspected of assaulting his girlfriend Sunday night reportedly left the residence and drove to his mother’s house in Hampden after he had been drinking. Police responded to Dirigo Drive around 9 p.m. for reports of domestic assault, but when they arrived, the… Read More
Bangor police responding early Sunday morning to reports of disorderly conduct on Third Street arrested a local woman who twice gave police a false name. Glenda Cook, 23, of Bangor and a man ran from a reported fight on Third Street just after 3 a.m. Read More
An arrest warrant was issued Monday for a Bangor man who reportedly accepted delivery of prescription medication that did not belong to him. Alvin Moreno, 43, of 120 Center St. is alleged to have signed for a delivery of methylphenidate – a type of Ritalin… Read More
A Bangor man was summoned by police Saturday night after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman delivering food he had ordered from a Brewer restaurant. The 25-year-old deliverywoman told Bangor police that when she brought the order to a residence on Everett Street, she… Read More
The Bangor Police Department says it is investigating a burglary early Wednesday morning involving three men who forced their way into a Curve Street apartment and assaulted a resident. The three men, all white and wearing hooded sweat shirts, kicked in the man’s apartment door… Read More
A Bangor man already in jail was issued a summons Tuesday alleging that for six years until April of this year, he was married to two women at the same time. The wife of Efrain Santos Jr., 28, reported at about 10 a.m. to Bangor… Read More
The Bangor Police Department is investigating a break-in at a Maine Avenue business where an undisclosed amount of money was taken from a metal storage box. A representative of Fessenden Geo-Environmental Services told police Monday that he noticed the burglary Monday when he came into… Read More
Bangor police were busy late Saturday afternoon, receiving reports of nearly 20 accidents in a span of about two hours. When snow began falling around 3 p.m. Saturday, calls poured into the police station regarding accidents and cars sliding off the road. However, none of… Read More
Bangor police charged an Adams Street man with domestic assault early Tuesday morning after it was reported he struck his wife and then prevented her from calling the police. An officer responding to the call found the woman crying by the pay phone at the… Read More
An accident in Holden on Saturday caused significant damage to two vehicles, but both drivers escaped without injuries, police said. The collision occurred at about noon, when Jason Lambert, 20, of Dedham turned left onto U.S. Route 1A from the Upper Dedham Road, Holden police… Read More
An Orrington motorist who hit several parked cars on Union Street in Bangor on Thursday and then kept driving later told police that he left the accident scene so that he could call for a wrecker. Robert W. Taylor, 38, drove off after hitting four… Read More
Two young women were arrested Wednesday afternoon for reportedly threatening to kill another woman at a trailer park in Old Town. The victim, who called police from a nearby pizza restaurant, had been visiting a friend at Wadleigh’s Trailer Park off Stillwater Avenue, Old Town… Read More
The first time Bangor police officers stopped a pickup truck late Sunday night, the two passengers inside were intoxicated while the driver was sober, although his license was suspended. The second time they stopped the truck – about a half-hour later – a passenger was… Read More
Bangor police arrested a local man late Friday when his former girlfriend reported he had broken into her home. The woman came home to find her door kicked in and her boyfriend on the edge of her Kittredge Road property with her two dogs, police… Read More
A Second Street resident who was warned late Thursday afternoon for playing his music too loud was arrested about a half-hour later when police returned to his apartment. Police first responded at 5:23 p.m. to reports of a fight at 40 Second St., but when… Read More
A Bangor man who was indicted earlier this week on charges that he violently shook his infant son, causing permanent brain damage, was back in police custody Tuesday evening for allegedly assaulting his wife. Matthew Williams, 22, was arrested late Tuesday by Hampden police after… Read More
A Hermon man claimed Monday that he blacked out before he assaulted his newlywed wife, although he was able to tell the law enforcement officer that he drop-kicked her, tackled her and choked her. Aaron Jordan, 24, was charged with domestic assault for the incident… Read More
Brewer police stopped an assault in progress at a local motel Saturday night, after reporting to the scene for a noise complaint. Officer David Lord and Sgt. Bill Birch responded to a call about a noise problem at around 9 Saturday night. The two officers… Read More
Vandals took ruining campaign signs a step further this week when a “Vote Yes on 1” sign in Bangor not only was broken but its stake pieces were used to make a cross. A Bangor man reported Thursday that for the second time this week… Read More
A Washington County man was arrested for a second time in less than a month after authorities learned that he was using a false name the first time he was arrested. Christopher Paul, 23, of Pleasant Point is being charged with felony aggravated forgery after… Read More
Several Bangor residents woke up Tuesday morning to find that their car tires had been slashed and their windshields broken, police said. Twelve reports of slashed tires and another seven calls regarding broken windshields were reported to police early Tuesday morning. The reports were from… Read More
Holden police are investigating a string of paintball incidents reported around 6 p.m. Monday and believe they have evidence that might lead to suspects. Officer Chris Greeley said Monday that two vehicles parked on Levenseller Road were vandalized with paintballs. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
Two Bangor residents were charged early Sunday morning with furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol after police broke up a loud party that reportedly featured underage drinking. Casey Belanger, 27, and Marc Wilson, 21, were having a party at their Fourth Street apartment… Read More
A Bangor woman received a summons for criminal mischief and assault Friday night after an altercation with her husband, police said. According to reports, Officer Steve Jordan of the Bangor Police Department responded to the call at around 10 p.m. Friday from 207 Bolling Drive,… Read More
A Bangor woman was issued a summons Thursday night after she reportedly entered a Bangor man’s apartment without invitation. Constance Girard, 44, walked into her male friend’s apartment on Spring Street in Bangor despite his protests and began breaking some of his belongings, according to… Read More
Bangor police Officer Robert Hutchings responded to a call Wednesday at the Airport Mall Hannaford supermarket where a woman was observed stuffing $118.57 worth of groceries into a large black bag and was apprehended by an employee when she tried to leave the store. She… Read More
A Hampden Academy student was banned Tuesday from riding a certain school bus after he reportedly challenged the bus driver to “step outside” and fight. The 10th-grade student, who was riding a bus around 3 p.m. on Severance Road in Newburgh, initially became agitated when… Read More
An employee of the Sea Dog restaurant who left his vehicle at work on Friday because he didn’t want to drive home intoxicated reported to police Saturday that his 1995 Chevy Lumina van had been stolen. The employee told Bangor police Officer James Dearing that… Read More
A 30-year-old Bangor woman told police Wednesday that she took a check from a neighbor’s mailbox and cashed it to pay her rent and electricity bill. The woman was in the Bangor Police Department when Officer Marty McCrea confronted her with a copy of the… Read More
Two Dexter men were taken to the hospital Tuesday after the car they were in went off Route 222 in Hermon, snapped a utility pole and hit a tree. Driver Douglas Gnade, 19, and passenger Eric Brannen, 18, were wearing seat belts at the time… Read More
Orono police arrested a local man Monday morning when his girlfriend reported that he had assaulted her on three separate occasions. The problems started Sunday afternoon, when the woman and James Witham, 25, of Orono began arguing about an ex-boyfriend while they were driving north… Read More
Bangor police responded to a report of a burglary early Sunday morning and managed to catch a suspect and return the stolen goods to the victims. Officer Chad Foley arrived at 18 Brentwood Ave. at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, where he was met by two… Read More
Hampden police received a distress call Wednesday from a woman who said her former boyfriend had broken into her apartment and called her with a demand to come home. Police arrived at the woman’s residence and found Oscar Hughes, 38, of Islesboro intoxicated. Hughes was… Read More
An Essex Street woman reported that more than $700 worth of jewelry was stolen from her residence between 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The lock on the woman’s apartment door had been broken and three silver necklaces, two gold necklaces and eight rings that… Read More
On Monday, Officer Rob Angelo responded to a call from three women who saw a woman crying in her car at the Airport Mall parking lot. The woman was waiting in an ambulance when Angelo arrived. She said her boyfriend, Dallas Quarles, 29, of Bangor, had thrown a… Read More
A Bangor woman was issued several criminal summonses Monday morning after reportedly assaulting her live-in boyfriend, trashing his belongings and repeatedly calling 911. Cindy Lou Scanlin, 41, initially called police shortly before 1 a.m. to say she wanted to have her boyfriend removed from her… Read More
Orono police arrested a local man early Sunday after a chase from the Bear Brew Pub on Main Street where the man reportedly took a bottle of alcohol and then ran out of the pub. James Murphy, 21, led police on a brief chase along… Read More
An elderly woman whose license had been taken away for medical reasons reportedly was involved in a hit-and-run accident Thursday and was later arrested after she tried to run a Hampden police cruiser off the road, police said. Elsie Brown, 79, of Hampden was charged… Read More
A foot chase early Wednesday morning between Bangor police and two men seen rummaging through cars ended with the two in custody, although not without a struggle with one of them. Two men were reported going through motor vehicles on Charles Street about 2 a.m. Read More
Authorities briefly evacuated Eastport Hall on the campus of University College of Bangor Tuesday morning after someone found graffiti in a bathroom that stated there was anthrax present. A Bangor police officer investigating the incident reported that he couldn’t see any “visible signs” on the… Read More
A Medway man was arrested Saturday after he admitted that he burglarized a camp in Grindstone earlier this month. Leslie A. Mushero, 27, was tracked by Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Knights, who received information from another man that Mushero may have sold him stolen… Read More
Officer Kevin MacLaren of the Bangor Police Department arrested a man on a charge of assault and for a probation violation over the weekend. According to police reports, MacLaren responded to a call of a domestic dispute on Court Street around noon Saturday and met… Read More
Mailroom staff at the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building in Bangor reported finding a suspicious manila envelope Friday morning. The initial investigation by Bangor Police Department has been turned over to federal authorities. The envelope was determined to be suspicious based on some writing on… Read More
A Stonington man was arrested Wednesday after a Bangor police officer responded to a report that two males and a female, all armed with pipes, engaged in a street fight on Hersey Avenue. David Joyce, 31, was found sitting on the steps at a residence. Read More
Bangor police responded to a car parked on the sidewalk in front of the Main Street Shaw’s supermarket on Monday. David Joyce of Deer Isle, who had his 3-year-old son with him, said he went inside the store to find his wife. Joyce showed visible… Read More
Police in Bangor are looking for a man who reportedly tried to assault a 49-year-old local woman, but who may have received the worst blows of the encounter. The woman told police that late Sunday as she was walking home to her Essex Street apartment,… Read More
A Bangor woman alerted police Saturday after suspecting that she may have been involved in an online “phishing” scam when she tried recently to log in to her bank account. The woman told a Bangor police officer that when she tried to access her Bank… Read More
A 19-year-old Bangor man was charged with seven counts of forgery this week after it was reported he stole checks from the Bangor West Side Little League, wrote the checks out to himself and then cashed them. Eric Clifford had taken the checks from his… Read More
Two people were issued summonses this week in connection with a Sept. 7 theft at the Maine Smoke Shop in Brewer. The theft was caught on tape and the suspects tracked because they had signed their names and addresses to a petition. Matthew French, 21,… Read More
A Brewer man was arrested early Wednesday morning after a police officer watched him stuff a bag of marijuana down his pants. Rodney Copeland, 35, had been walking down Holyoke Street at about 1:30 a.m. when he was approached by a Brewer police officer who… Read More
A Bangor woman who reported to police that a bag of clothing had been stolen from her car returned to the police station Monday claiming that she saw a man in Pickering Square wearing what appeared to be her clothes. Officer Rob Angelo accompanied the… Read More
A Hermon teenager faces multiple charges, including aggravated forgery, for a Sept. 8 incident during which he was stopped for a traffic violation and twice signed someone else’s name on police summonses. Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Adams stopped a car Thursday on Billings Road… Read More
Officer Gary Spencer of the Bangor Police Department responded to a report of a stolen vehicle Saturday night. After a brief investigation, the alleged thief was apprehended. According to police reports, Spencer received a call at about 9:45 p.m. Saturday from a Bangor woman who… Read More
A resident of a Husson Avenue apartment awoke early Friday morning to find a man in his basement with the resident’s television in hand. The resident convinced the intruder to go upstairs with him and sit on his couch while he called the police. It… Read More
A Bangor man arrested Monday on outstanding warrants was issued two new summonses for reportedly using his vehicle to ram another car that afternoon. The man whose car was hit tracked down Bangor police Officer James Dearing near Broadway and State Street. The man told… Read More
Hampden police are sorting out a rash of smashed mailboxes reported during the overnight hours on Monday near the public library on Route 1A. Sgt. Dan Stewart said Monday evening that approximately a dozen homeowners called to report that their mailboxes had been damaged. Some… Read More
A Bangor man who reported to police on Saturday that two bicycles owned by his sons were stolen from Shaw’s supermarket on Main Street called police again Sunday after he saw a young man riding one of the bikes. The man said he rode to… Read More
A Bangor man was arrested Thursday night after witnesses said he flipped over tables and threatened employees and patrons at the Whig & Courier restaurant downtown. Several witnesses said that a man – identified later as Craig Raymond, 30 – came into the restaurant around… Read More
Penobscot County sheriffs deputies charged two juveniles Thursday – thanks in large part to community members who came forward with information – in connection with several mailboxes that had been vandalized in Hermon. Both are 16-year-old boys, one from Corinth and the other from Hermon. Read More
A Bangor man who was intoxicated and reading pornographic magazines Tuesday afternoon at the Airport Mall was later arrested for theft. Michael Gagnon, 27, was found passed out just after 2 p.m. in a drainage ditch near Marshall’s by Officer Chris Blanchard, a police report… Read More
Brewer police are urging residents to report any suspicious behavior that may have occurred around Edgecomb Drive over the weekend after three residential burglaries were reported on Sunday afternoon. Sgt. Jason Moffitt of the Brewer Police Department said that three homes on Edgecomb Drive were… Read More
A Bangor woman called police Wednesday night after she believed she had been the victim of a telemarketing scam. The 67-year-old woman received a call at her home around 9 p.m. from a man who identified himself as Nathan Miller. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
A woman received minor injuries Wednesday afternoon when her vehicle pinned her against a building in Newport. Julie Moonlight, 31, of Dover-Foxcroft was at an ice cream shop on Route 7 in Newport when she left her truck in gear as she went to the… Read More
A Bangor man was arrested Tuesday morning for terrorizing two women over the Internet. Christopher L. Rockwell, 25, was conversing online with his ex-girlfriend and her friend, who were on another computer together, just after midnight, when he became “very threatening” toward the two women,… Read More
A mother and son who were fighting in Glenburn were both taken into custody Sunday night after a Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy had to fend off the mother when the deputy tried to arrest her son. Perley Delano III, 48, of Glenburn was charged with… Read More
A Bangor woman decided to take her 8-year-old son to a Saco amusement park Friday, but police said she was in no condition to make the trip. Bangor police stopped Carol W. Ross Friday afternoon after being tipped off that she was driving in the… Read More
Bangor police arrested three juvenile males early Friday morning after they fled from Bangor Mall security because they allegedly had stolen a car from Dexter, Officer James Hassard said. Hassard went at about 4 a.m. to the area near Staples on Bangor Mall Boulevard after… Read More