BANGOR, Maine — An Alton man is facing multiple charges after he broke into an abandoned home Thursday morning, police said.
Bangor police Officers Tim Shaw and Jason Stuart went to the scene around 9:45 a.m., Sgt. Paul Edwards said in a news release, and searched the outside of the house on Mount Hope Avenue.
As police surveyed the scene, Shaw observed a man later identified as Phillip Ellis, 29, shut a window and take off running from the house seconds later, Edwards said.
Ellis led Shaw and Stuart on a brief foot pursuit, but the officers quickly caught up and took him into custody, according to Edwards.
He was charged with burglary, a Class C felony, and refusing to submit to arrest and brought to the Penobscot County Jail, where he remained Thursday afternoon.
At first glance i thought this was the youngest kid from “Malcolm in the middle”. Good eye copper!
Or more likely he has a good eye for copper.
Yeah, because you know, gutting a house on Mt. Hope is the way to riches. Might have a bit of a hard time lugging it off, but hey, a pocketful at a time when no-one is looking will get it done sure enough, right?!
I think that he was just looking for a place to lay his head down and get some sleep.
“So easy a caveman can do it.”
Lock him up!
For breaking into an abandoned house? Why? Its purpose is better served by putting a roof over this man’s head for a short time then it is sitting there rotting. Houses exist to be used, do they not? You are probably thinking copper, but perhaps really do think a bit and consider this is Mount Hope Ave we are talking about. Gutting a house there and getting away with it simply is not possible and even stupid people would know that. Maybe he just wanted to see what it looked like, inside? There are lots of really old, abandoned houses out where I live. No-one has lived in them for many decades. Ive watched some of them deteriorate into nothing over the years. Ive often wondered what might be inside some of them. Old art, or history, or neat trinkets or parts of peoples lives they left behind when they went to some place better, or pictures, or just whatever. Id be happy to simply find a spoon from 70 years ago. I guess I better not go find out, though, or the mob is going to lynch me. Sad, really.
Hey!! Got a spare room…a couch yur not using?? Put a sign on your house and invite these poor people in for a night. Don’t forget to feed them and supply pleanty of their favorite beverage. Lotsa’ luck with your new tentants & buddies. if you don’t invite them in under the bit of house you’re not using, think your argument about letting them use other peoples houses isn’t valid.
Maybe 6 months of rehab in the county will make a productive stakeholder out of him. Come November we will have more of this because some Bangor stakeholders will need a warm place for the winter months.
Would you prefer people freeze to death?
Not all homeless people are homeless because they made bad decisions. We are all victims of circumstance, occasionally.
And, you can’t really learn a lesson in productivity stuck in a tiny cell and block with nothing to do 24 hours a day for months on end. In fact, I would argue that you learn how to be rather good at being not productive.
The “stakeholders” are the ones who pay property taxes. The “bloodsuckers” are the ones at the methadone clinics and expecting a handout from the “stakeholders”.
Hey Phillip! It’s 9:45 AM shouldn’t you be at WORK. Just kidding–