Bangor police officers searched a car carrying five young people on Union Street on Thursday night after an area teen reported that people in the car threatened him, Sgt. Bob Bishop said on Friday.
“There was a yelling match to pick a fight with the complainant,” he said. “We stopped the suspect vehicle,” a Pontiac Grand Am, and after patting down the five occupants “[officers] seized two baseball bats and two knives.”
The car was stopped near the public pool at 10:30 p.m., and all the occupants were given disorderly conduct warnings and allowed to leave except for Tanya Hyson, 23, of Orono, who was arrested for violating her bail conditions, Bishop said.
Bangor police say the incident is likely connected to the conflict between two groups of teenagers and young adults that in January led to the shooting death of 19-year-old John “Bobby” Surles.
The victim in Thursday’s incident is a cousin of Zachary Carr, 18, of Bangor, who is in Penobscot County Jail awaiting trial for allegedly shooting Surles and was at the group fight on Cumberland Street when the shooting took place. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
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The driver of a vehicle traveling north on Interstate 95 on Thursday night told police that a rock was thrown at his car as he drove under the Essex Street overpass, Bangor police Sgt. Bob Bishop said on Friday.
Bangor resident Jeff Savage reported that he was driving north at around 9 p.m. when someone in a gray T-shirt threw a football-sized rock at his 2009 Honda Civic.
“The rock left an extensive dent and blew the windshield out,” Bishop said.
Several officers searched the Essex Street area but no suspect was found, he said. Savage, who was the lone person in the vehicle, maintained control of his car after the impact, Bishop said, adding he was lucky.
“It could have killed him,” the sergeant said of the rock. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
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Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department deputies, personnel from the Maine Warden Service and emergency responders from Sangerville Fire Department went to Line Road in Sangerville on Friday night for an ATV accident.
The call for help came in at 6:10 p.m. and at least one person was taken to the hospital by a Mayo Regional Ambulance, a dispatcher for the Sheriff’s Department said.
The incident occurred on a discontinued railroad line that is used as a snowmobile-ATV trail and is located near Line Road, he said.
Warden Mike Morrison of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, who is leading the investigation, could not be reached for information. The name and condition of the ATV operator also were not available.