BELFAST, Maine — A married couple wanted in Knox County for violating a shellfish ordinance found themselves in more legal hot water in Belfast Wednesday night after resisting arrest.
Maria Riley, aka Maria Connors, 24, and Jacob Graffam-Connors, 28, both of Belfast, had strong reactions when officers from the Belfast Police Department came knocking on their door at about 10 p.m. at the Huntress Gardens housing development with a Knox County warrant for their arrest.
Graffam-Connors ran inside when he saw police and sequestered himself in the bathroom, according to Detective Sgt. Bryan Cunningham, and Riley fought with officers trying to take her into custody.
Police also found illicit prescription pills inside the residence, Cunningham said.
Riley was charged with assault, refusing to submit to arrest or detention and unlawful possession of drugs. Graffam-Connors was charged with refusing to submit to arrest, unlawful possession of Klonopin and violation of conditions of release from a previous charge.
They each owed $300 for failure to appear in Knox County on the shellfish ordinance violation, Cunningham said in explaining the warrant.
Both were taken to Waldo County Jail in Belfast to be booked.
They were probably scared of men with guns, tazers, pepper spray along with a club.. The liberals ought to get on this today. intimidation and fear is not the way to treat the stakeholds..
the liberal way listen to obama intimidation play the race card if he gets in agian countless women will suffer wake up before it is to late shiara law women cant drive cars men can beat them and it is ok think smart o thats right women think he is great when they figure out they made a mistake it will be to late o well let it be said let it be done
Wow. That was quite a “sentence”.
it was my snizzle dizzle
No, it was a torrent of verbal diarrhea. You would be better off and sound a lot smarter if you didn’t attempt to write in the English language.
My feelings exactly!
for gosh sake come up for air!!! I am winded reading this comment!!!
bet you are a white women feel sorry for you glad i am a man thank the lord
If you do a search on this guy, you will find he was in prison for along time, guess not long enough!
You’re right, time to throw away the key…
Amen to that. After reading about some of his escapades, it’s no wonder that the LEOs took extra precaution when approaching him.
I’m sure he was turning is life around ;)
Perhaps Ms. Curtis doesn’t know this but here in America both a criminal suspect and a criminal defendant are just that, not, as so many police officers prefer to put it, a perpetrator. In terms of thousand-year-old English Common Law, which last I knew we still sort of adhere to, that means a person is innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.
So, please, Ms. Curtis, bad as the reputation of this couple might be, don’t simply assume they’re guilty before they get to court and are convicted — if, in fact, they are convicted. It’s not for you to convict this couple of resisting arrest, only to report that it was the police who said they did and so charged them.
By the same token, it appears Ms. Curtis has also wrongly taken it upon herself to say the couple violated a shellfish ordinance. In the penultimate paragraph to her story, she reports rather ambiguously that a police spokesman merely indicated they had failed to appear in court, presumably to answer the shellfish ordinance charge. The circumstances are unclear how each person “owed $300 for failure to appear.”
Whoever wrote the headline also needs to learn these basic principles of American law, not mindlessly blare to the world whatever he or she read Ms. Curtis perhaps falsely asserted in her lead.
why don’t you go bail out the ‘innocents’ and put them up in your house
A snide response and a really dumb one. Why don’t you smarten up and figure out that a society that too liberally ignores the principles of law tends to turn ugly for a lot of innocent people — perhaps even for you. Innocent people get railroaded every day because simpletons on juries are incapable of putting aside their prejudices, considering the actual evidence and following a logical train of argument. I’d rather not contemplate how it would be if people like many of those posting here substituted as a lynch mob for what due process we do have. One good reason for having a court system to judge who are the guilty is because many foolish people like yourself think they already know who is innocent and who is guilty based simply on malicious gossip, malicious prejudice and ineptly written news stories like this one.
Taber’s right: Curtis has presumed the couple’s guilt from their being charged. That’s bad law and even worse journalism.
go hang out in pickering square. you will find plenty of sympathy for your views
(honest question – no sarcasm intended) I thought failure to appear defaulted the judgement to guilty, or in favor of the plaintiff? If that is what happened here one could call the person(s) a perpetrator since they have been deemed so by the courts.This article is very vague on information though…
Cops showing up at your home at 10p.m. to arrest you on a shellfish ordinance?
Bored?
Pedroia the destroia
Clevage–that is all