BANGOR, Maine — He had a good story — people were after him and he feared for his life — and that apparently was enough for him Sunday to get inside the home of his ex-girlfriend, who has an active protection order against him, police say.
Once inside, Jeffrey Mayhew II, 27, who is listed as a transient, assaulted and threatened his 38-year-old ex-girlfriend, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said.
“She let him in because he said he had been in a fight and he was in fear for his life” from people following him, Edwards said, reading the report of Officer Russell Twaddell.
Police were called to York Street at about 4 a.m. Sunday and found Mayhew in violation of the court-ordered protection from abuse order.
Mayhew was arrested for felony domestic violence assault, which could send him to prison for up to five years if convicted, as well as for criminal threatening and violating the protection order.
Edwards could not confirm whether the victim is the same 38-year-old woman whom Mayhew allegedly assaulted in April, giving her a black eye. Mayhew also was arrested in March and charged with domestic violence assault after he and the woman he assaulted in April got into a heated argument and he reportedly pushed her, Edwards said at the time.
Mayhew was taken to Penobscot County Jail after his arrest Sunday morning. He remained behind bars on Thursday, a jail official said.
Mayhew has a prior disorderly conduct conviction from 2008 and has three marijuana-related convictions, two for possession and one for cultivation, according to court listings printed in the Bangor Daily News. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
What a package ! Homeless, jobless, druggie, and a violent woman beater… Just can’t understand why he can’t seem to keep a girlfriend, hmmm.
His girlfriend should go to jail as well for letting him in while she has a protection order against him.
You probably don’t realize that batterers are usually very manipulative, or that blaming the victim just helps perpetuate domestic violence. While she made an unwise choice, to say the least, I do not think someone should be punished for having compassion. Even if he did not deserve it.
stop making excuses for women who indanger themselves with bad behavior.
I’m not sure but have heard that when you get a protection order on someone the judge is very direct that ANY contact on EITHER parties behalf is AGAINST the law? Maybe not?
Huh, they don’t get that much for breaking a PA. My daughter’s ex broke his twice and the last time got 5 days!
What a lowlife. No excuse for hitting a woman.
I wonder how he’ll do in jail against someone his own size and gender?
Wait a tick, I thought marijuana users were non violent. FOR SHAME!!!
Good thing he’s a pot head, otherwise he might have used a GUN.
no bail until trial wouldn’t be a bad thing!
I’m in fear for my life!
Okay. You wait right out there on the steps and I’ll call the cops for you.
Now wasn’t that easy?
Id bet its the same woman.
This is why you never sympathize with the one who beats you up. They are the very embodiment of the statement that “no good deed goes unpunished”. Given what he is like, I would not be surprised if he really had peole after him. Like the fathers and brothers of the women he beat up in the past.