LAGRANGE, Maine — An unidentified man was in police custody Thursday night after what reportedly began with an assault in Orono and ended with a roughly 12-hour police standoff in a home on Brimstone Road.
The man, who has not yet been identified, left the home where he had barricaded himself shortly before 8:30 p.m., Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross said Thursday evening.
Ross referred questions about the incident to the Orono Police Department, which is leading the investigation. Attempts to reach Orono police Thursday night were not successful.
Orono police were investigating an assault that reportedly occurred in that town when they requested assistance from the Maine State Police and the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department, the latter of which sent its Special Response Team to Brimstone Road.
Details about what led to the standoff and what brought it to an end were not immediately available late Thursday.
“There was a child involved in the house,” said Ross. “We had a number of officers and got the child to leave the home. They were talking to [the suspect] in the home, trying to get him to come out [the last I heard].”
BDN writer Dawn Gagnon contributed to this report.
Ok anyone want to take bets that this male who has barricaded himself in the house has a history of violence? Guess we’ll have to wait and see…
No doubt. After he comes out, he will get a slap on the wrist.
He might not get out alive. LE seems to like this kind of thing. The child is out. They should back off if no one else is in there until he is ready to come out. He feels threatened and probably scared. Maybe under the influence. I fear it won’t end well.
Why should they back off? Are you serious? Get a clue!
They said on tv he was not even there, he turned himself in later he slipped out a side door, they talked to him and thought he was in the house, but he was not they did not know till they broke in the door.you just can not make this stuff up.They had all those cops there for almost 7 hour, watching an empty house.
I heard the same report on the early morning news!–All that manpower and police cars , and the guy wasen’t even inside, but was off and running!!
I guess it ended ok.
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dopey2 wrote, in response to frostylobomerlin:
He might not get out alive. LE seems to like this kind of thing. The child is out. They should back off if no one else is in there until he is ready to come out. He feels threatened and probably scared. Maybe under the influence. I fear it won’t end well. Link to comment
Obviously considering AN ASSAULT in Orono is what started this whole thing!!
I was referring to his history PRIOR to todays assault…..oy
Your chances of getting a speeding ticket just decreased in Penobscot County.
Yes, it looks like every cop car in the county showed up.
So the man is alone in the house, and is surrounded by LE, want to place bets that they will charge in guns blazing.
Survey says: X
So what, that’s there job!
Call in the Border Patrol!
Or Bangor PD. They would have kicked the snot out of this guy.
I remember fist fights growing up… we lived to tell about it… Today it’s assult and off to jail you go….
Desperate people do desperate things. And this man is about as desperate as it gets.
Thats right and with all the cuts in welfare and maine care we are just starting to see the desperate acts , its going to get worse believe that. desperate people have nothing to lose. Its gonna get a lot worse.
What the “cut social services” folks fail to realize is that, in the end, you pay one way or another.
Glad the child made it out without further problems
This is more than serious. I hope he comes out on his own.
tl;dr
spark notes: we heard there was a stand off in lagrange. we don’t know what happened.
Common Sense prevailed today…that didn’t happen last Saturday in Jackman…hopefully the one in Jackman gets scurtinized…tired of the Cowboy North mentalilty associated with Jackman.
Was this a little overkill ?
Top professional handling of a dangerous situation.