BANGOR, Maine — A fight at the Hope House on Tuesday night resulted in a wanted local man being charged with assault and arrested on two outstanding warrants, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Wednesday.
Jeremy Bowen, 22, and a 20-year-old transient man got into a pushing and then wrestling fight on the ground just after 8 p.m. at the shelter, which is for people struggling with drugs and alcohol, the sergeant said.
When police arrived “they arrested [Bowen] on the warrants and summoned him for the assault,” Edwards said.
Bowen, who has a former Dedham address, was convicted of assault in January and ordered to pay a $300 fine, pay $360 in restitution and spend 48 hours in jail, according to court listings printed in the Bangor Daily News. He also has a conviction for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer from August 2011, the BDN listings state.
looks like its been a real hard 22 years so far
Indeed, looks more like 35
So many of these stories. And most of them are related to drugs or alcohol. Why does anyone with even a few brain cells try drugs in the first place?
When people have mental health issues, and the State is so woefully incompetent when it comes to actually helping them, this is what you get.
Wish I could “like” that comment a billion times
most people who have done or do drugs don’t end up fighting in hope house. A lot of them end up as famous musicians or writers or actors….
This boy just reinforces, they love a home away from home…JAIL!!
Leave him alone, jeesh. Unless you know first hand the struggles that someone is going through, hush it. BDN doesn’t report someone’s life story, only a brief description of the incident. Try not to judge people.
I agree @candlday:disqus. The news papers can make people seem like horrible people in a few paragraphs. But in reality, its just normal people having a bad day. No need for it to end up in the paper.
According to the article he is on his way to be “judged” for the third time in 6-7 months.
sounds like he has had at least three bad days. more to come i’m sure. i’m also sure he’s a great person living at the hope house, just abuses drugs and or alchol, gets into fights, and steals…nothing wrong with that!
Sometimes people stay at the Hope House because they are homeless…not all people are addicts. Even so, stop judging.
I dont condone these boy’s behavior, but why plaster their names and faces all over the news? I’m sure they have it hard enough and putting them into the public eye for their “Scuffle” probably wont help them get a good reputation to get a job.. or better themselves. Shame on BDN. Dont you guys have anything better to report?
But people like to look at the pictures of messed-up people having a hard time, and talk about what losers they are.
It makes them feel better about being losers with nothing better to do than remark on the misfortunes of the losers there are out there in the real world.
Like they’ll be out job hunting at the crack of dawn.
They dont need to they got a place to say as long as they want rent free, they dont even leave now from what i hear
I bet it is such a wonderful life there that half of Bangor will quit their jobs and move right in….oh wait, it sucks being that poor and most people would do anything to not be.
more like hunting crack at the dawn of a job….
I don’t think they need BDN’s help to ruin their reputation.
They are not boys, they are adults. They should know better
Sorry but assaults are news. If you want to complain about news that really isn’t news than start with the reports of underage drinking at college parties and then maybe continue on to some other sections of this paper….This guy has an assault conviction already, repeated violent offenses are news.
Most news is nothing but gossip but we still keep reading. Though I don’t think I’d ever could be a reporter and live with myself cranking out most this tabloid / gossip rag sort of junk. Nothing like airing out other peoples dirty laundry for attention. Specially when it doesn’t really pertain to the rest of us. Some things are news worthy if it’s Politics, Science, or if there is a criminal at large, or perhaps it is talking about a crime way such as bath salts. But all too often there is just gossip mongering such as this. And sometimes they don’t get the story right, leave something out, or twist it somehow. I take it with a grain of salt.
He seems to have a case of…the wondering eyebrow.
Hope House seems woefully incompetant in its attempts to deal with people in this young man’s condition. A couple of weeks ago they called the police to collect two more of their residents.
The Staff and administration seem to miss the concept that people on drugs, or having consummed too much alcohol do stupid things. If they do not have the in house staff to manage these behaviors (and keep their neighbors safe) they have no business running this facility, particularly in a Bangor neighborhood.
I live a long way distant from this facility, and it coul be argued that it is none of my business. I do feel sorry for the quiet folks and families who may live closer.
ever visit the hope house? looks like a medical post dealing with casualties of war. lots of peeps (looking real bad) jacked up on the drugs the local docs hand out like candy. pretty hopeless. some people have been living there for like 5 plus years.
The staff at the Hope House are very competent. They have hard jobs dealing with Chronic alcoholics and addicts along with mental health issues and dealing with 90 plus people a night with a staff of four people a night.. these staff give there best on a nightly basis with all the frustrations they still do there jobs with conviction and compassion. Thank you for the BPD for the help when situations at the Hope house get dicey and people make poor decisions. I would like to see the streets of Bangor if the Hope House did not exists so don’t judge until you walk in there path….
I bet if he just had access to the right T-shirts the world would embrace him and his criminal beliefs.
Is this really news-worthy?
In-the-day, people would just break up a fight, and send everyone on their way. Or back to the probation officer.
More like Nope House. Another waste of tax funded reimbursement waste
Bangor needs to clean up their act…….
Pretty soon no one will want to go near Bangor.
Sorry to post another video link but your comment reminds me of this song. “One night in Bangk0k” except it should be called “One night in Bangor” – where the queens we use would not excite you. Said it before and I’ll say it again: They don’t call this place the Queen city for nothin’ sunshine. At dinner people don’t simply say “pass the salt” they say “pass the bath salts”. ha ha ha http://youtu.be/xqZCGTe5ISQ
Can you please pass the bath salts?????? Instead of can you please pass the jelly….
so they were pushing and wrestling……….lets change the headline to that!! fighing would mean throwing punches right!! either way ………who cares
Love the raised eyebrow thing. It reminds me of that song in which they say “Well… how did I get here”. “Hey this isn’t my beautiful jail cell.” http://youtu.be/jKlrkBJozuc