A Canadian tractor-trailer carrying french fries and traveling south on Interstate 95 went off the road around mile marker 177 late Monday, Maine State Police Trooper Darren Vittum said Tuesday.
“He said his rear brakes locked up and caused his truck to roll over onto its side,” Vittum said.
Phillip Greer, 60, of Woodstock, New Brunswick, was driving a yellow 2005 Freightliner and was carrying 50,000 pounds of french fries for Day Ross, based in Hartland, New Brunswick. The crash was reported to police at 10:40 p.m. Monday, but the big rig wasn’t removed from the roadside until late Tuesday.
The trucker “had a severe cut to his head and his right ear,” Vittum said. “He refused transport [to a medical facility] but I think he eventually took himself in.”
The crash caused about $40,000 in damage to the tractor-trailer, the trooper said. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
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A Bangor man and a Waterville man face criminal charges in connection with an incident on Ohio Street early Monday morning.
Charged were Zachary Elkins, 18, of Bangor, and 25-year-old Michael Mories, of Waterville, according to Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards.
The two were summoned after Bangor police were called to an Ohio Street residence to investigate a report that two men were breaking into a car there. One of the victims and a friend told police that they heard their car horn sound off and when they went to investigate, two people fled on foot.
After receiving a description of the suspects, police scoured the area and located the two men, Edwards said.
Elkins was summoned for misdemeanor burglary to a motor vehicle and criminal intent, also a misdemeanor, Edwards said. He said Mories was charged with two counts of misdemeanor criminal attempt. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)
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Two area men were arrested on charges of possession of burglar’s tools Monday after a Bangor police officer found them at the door of a Bangor middle school.
After they were arrested, Cody Fairless, 20, of Winterport, and Joshua King, 21, of Bangor, were taken to Penobscot County Jail, according to Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards. Both men have been released on bail, a jail official confirmed Tuesday.
Edwards said that Officer Joe Page was on routine patrol Monday and that while he was checking the James F. Doughty School, he found two males at the cafeteria doors.
Officer Shawn Green was called in as a backup before the two officers searched the men. Edwards said tools believed to be used in an attempt to break into the school were recovered.
Edwards said the Police Department still is investigating a string of recent burglaries. He said it was not yet clear Tuesday whether Monday’s arrests were related to any of those incidents. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)