A Corinth man with two drunken driving convictions within less than a year was charged Saturday with the same offense after he was pulled over by a deputy with the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department in Glenburn.
Buddy J. Sanders Jr., 45, declined a field sobriety test when he was stopped by Deputy Noel Santiago.
“He said, ‘Just take me to jail,’” Santiago said.
Santiago said Sanders’ arrest came after a complainant called police Saturday morning about a black SUV being driven erratically in Kenduskeag.
Santiago said he caught up with Sanders on Route 15 in Glenburn about 11 a.m.
“He was all over the road,” the deputy said. “He didn’t even know I was behind him for about a third of a mile,” despite the fact that the lights and sirens on his police car were running, Santiago said.
Intoxilyzer test results indicated Sanders’ blood alcohol content was .23, almost triple the legal limit of .08, Santiago said.
Sanders also was charged with operating after the suspension of his driver’s license. He since has been released on bail, a Penobscot County Jail official confirmed. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)
Residents on Southgate Road called Old Town police late Tuesday to report they heard gunshots coming from the area of Interstate 95, Sgt. Travis Roy said Wednesday.
Old Town police Sgt. Scott Casey arrived in the neighborhood at 10:18 p.m. and shortly afterward a pickup truck carrying two local brothers, ages 26 and 31, pulled up. One brother explained that “his brother got lost and discharged his gun [several times] until his brother found him,” Roy said.
The lost brother said he became dizzy from dehydration, but refused medical care, the sergeant said.
Why the men were in the woods with guns after dark was not explained. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
Old Town police Officer Mike Holmes was heading to work late Tuesday night when he noticed two men running into Forest Hill Cemetery on Stillwater Avenue, Sgt. Travis Roy said Wednesday.
“It’s illegal to be in a cemetery after dark,” Roy said.
Orono police officers were called in to search the cemetery since Holmes officially was not on duty at the time. They found Jordan Rand, 18, of Ludlow walking out and later located Ian Small, 19, of Houlton, who apparently had been hiding, Roy said.
“They wouldn’t tell the officers what they were doing,” Roy said. “They said they were just hanging out.”
Both Rand and Small were charged with criminal trespassing and have a Nov. 4 court date at the Bangor Judicial Center. Neither was arrested. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
Classes at the University of Maine started this week, and the first student to be charged this semester with marijuana possession was caught on Tuesday night, university spokesman Joe Carr said Wednesday.
“Two people were discovered sitting on the bleachers at [the field hockey] field at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday, and they were approached by a police officer,” Carr said in an e-mail. “As a result of that encounter, a 19-year-old on-campus resident student named Michael Ascanio was summoned for possession of marijuana. The other student was referred to the conduct office for being a minor in possession of alcohol.” (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
Bangor police officers who were trying to pick up a wanted woman late Tuesday on Essex Street were approached by a man wielding a hammer, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Wednesday.
Officers could see Stephanie White-Powers, 24, inside the apartment just before midnight but she wouldn’t come to the door, so officers knocked louder and “a man came to the door with a hammer in his hand,” Edwards said.
The man put down the hammer and opened the door and White-Powers was arrested on two warrants. One of the warrants was for unpaid fines for her conviction for speeding more than 30 mph over the limit and the other was for failing to appear in court on a theft charge, Edwards said. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
A Bangor man who reportedly was involved in a criminal mischief incident early last week was seen walking down Garland Street on Friday and took off running when Bangor police Officer Brian Smith approached him, Sgt. Paul Edwards said Tuesday.
Smith told William Hilderbrand, 22, to stop and “he started running,” the sergeant said.
The foot chase was short because Hilderbrand stopped shortly after taking off, Edwards said. Hilderbrand was charged with refusal to submit to arrest, criminal mischief and violating his bail conditions and was taken to Penobscot County Jail. He remained in jail on Wednesday night, a jail official said. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
A state police trooper arrested a Greenbush teenager and charged a male minor from Veazie with speeding after he spotted them late Saturday night on Forest Avenue in Orono involved in what he characterized as some kind of a driving game.
Nathan Kennedy, 18, was arrested on a charge of driving to endanger and taken to Penobscot County Jail, Trooper Chris Cookson said Tuesday.
Cookson said he charged the juvenile, whom he clocked at 72 mph in a 45-mph zone, with speeding. Cookson said he did not charge Kennedy with speeding because he had slowed down significantly before he had a chance to get a radar reading.
Cookson said he was headed west on Forest Avenue when he saw an eastbound car driven by Kennedy with its headlights off pass the juvenile’s vehicle in front of him and pull back into the travel lane.
“I turned around and pulled them both over,” he said.
Cookson said he notified the juvenile’s parents. Kennedy since has been released on bail, a jail official said. (Dawn Gagnon, BDN)