BANGOR, Maine — A man who recently moved to Bangor from Tyronza, Ark., wound up in jail after Bangor police responded to a sixth public complaint about him in less than 48 hours early Tuesday morning.
Ryan Avery, 35, found plenty of ways to get into trouble in the Broadway area Monday and Tuesday:
• He initially attracted police attention after someone called to report him talking to children at Mary Snow School at 12:48 p.m. Monday.
• About three hours later, he was told to move along when he was panhandling on Maine Department of Transportation property at the intersection of Broadway and I-95.
• At 12:50 a.m. Tuesday morning, employees at the Circle K convenience store on Broadway called police to have them remove him from the property because he was bothering customers and employees.
• Just 20 minutes later, police visited Avery again when employees at St. Joseph Hospital made a welfare check request after noticing Avery outside the emergency room entrance talking to himself. Avery appeared to be drunk, but agreed to move along after being warned by an officer.
• At 3:26 a.m. Tuesday morning, Bangor police Officer Michael Brennan returned to St. Joseph, this time because Avery was being very loud and disorderly, shouting and cursing on the Center Street side of the hospital. Brennan convinced Avery to move along and warned him to quiet down or he might be arrested.
• Brennan returned less than an hour later, this time because of complaints about Avery yelling and cursing in front of the Center for Sleep Medicine on Center Street.
Despite again getting a warning, Avery remained loud and became belligerent with Brennan, eventually prompting Brennan to physically take Avery into custody at 4:30 a.m.
“He was yelling and swearing loudly in front of the sleep center, and the guy refused to cooperate,” said Bangor police Lt. Tom Reagan. “He had to be taken down physically to the ground and handcuffed.”
After running his criminal history, Brennan discovered Avery has some nonextraditable warrants in Arkansas for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
Avery was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal threatening and refusal to submit to arrest and transported to Penobscot County Jail, where he remained belligerent and refused to cooperate with jail officials.
Avery made a court appearance at Penobscot Judicial Center and was sentenced to two days, time served, according to an officer at the jail.
Avery is scheduled to be released Thursday morning.
Well welcome to Bangor Maine Avery ! Glad you have found your way to the promise land….anything we can do for you to make you more comfortable ?
I think this wayward lost soul could benefit from treatment at The Acadia Hospital
Doreathea Dix needs to be revamped and filled with these so called “transients” a.s.a.p.
Do you suppose that word of Maine’s generous social benefit programs reached Arkansas, or did he simply come to town because he’d heard Bangor was a good place to ‘let it all hang out’?
Generous police department too, that 3:26am incident should have put him in jail to begin with. How many times does one person need to be warned about the same thing before the cuffs get slapped on them?
You can;t arrest someone until they violate the law.. Warnings were given because that was as much as they could do at the time.
Ummm he had warrents!!!! Why didnt they run his name to begin with and get him off the streets to begin with!
See above comment. Think or at least google what extradition is before making yourself look silly.
My bad. Didnt see the “non” part.
Disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, fits right in with what he was doing, he disrupted customers at a place of business, then 20 minutes later appears to be drunk in front of a hospital, that is public intoxication to me, and the police department is supposed to protect and serve so they would rather watch a drunk guy wander the streets so possibly his body can be scooped up later after being hit by a car or passing out in the cold.At 3:26 he is loud, he should have been moved by police at that point instead of waiting for him over at the sleep center doing the same exact thing He broke the law once, 3:26am, that should have been the end of it
Public intoxication doesn’t exist in Maine. It would fall under possibly disorderly conduct if it reaches a certain level. Also the court system in Maine prefers that a warning is issued for trespassing and disorderly conduct before an arrest is made. Just because someone is drunk and wandering doesn’t mean they are violating the law.
The court system prefers but is not a requirement, so it could have stopped there considering they knew this guy was up to no good with the previous contacts made with him But instead the law wants to waste time and resources, and even some money
Driving by and speaking with him is annoying yes however using saving money as an excuse doesn’t apply. It is much cheaper to move him along then to provide him with housing, food, and all of his medications for free paid for by us. Im all for locking up idiots but you have to pick and choose otherwise we would be even more burdened than we are now.
I was threatened with arrest when disputing a parking ticket.
I wouldn’t brag about that.
You take yourself wayyyyyy too seriously. By the way, did you get yourself away from the computer for some much needed sleep?
Some officers get carried away with offering free room and board.
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The Governor’s got nothing to do with it…please stay on topic. In the small Western Maine town I live in I see that which you deny exists every day. In fact, my board of selectmen is now raising GA allowances for rent vouchers because “rent has gone up”.
Welcome to the the real world and all that money Lepage is “saving” you.
We told you well educated tea trolls to watch your property taxes rise but you must have been to busy feeling superior about yourself to listen
Well aren’t you a self righteous snob.
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Why doesn’t a reporter actually do some reporting and ask these people what on earth possessed them to come to Bangor, Maine? Who gave them their bus ticket here? Now that the Dems are back in office, we can only expect things to get worse.
He heard LePage was giving out free stuff.
arkansas police probably sick of him and put him on a bus.
I very much doubt that he came here for the “generous benefits”. He would have done better to go to Hawaii if that is what he was looking for. Nicer climate too. I think he is just a drifter, going where his whims and his bus ticket take him.
If he could take a bus to Hawaii, since he cant he just said, gee I am just gonna head north for no reason, it looks cold and there may be jobs there.
By and large, drifter are not looking for jobs nor do they need a good reason to wander. And there are other states he could have stopped at on the way to Maine, since they have higher benefits. I am sticking with my original position, which is that he came here randomly. Or maybe he actually has family or friends here that he wanted to move closer to. When people make a big life change to move to another state, it is usually more involved than saying where can I get the best deal for benefits. Compared to other New England states, Maine is not all that generous.
I’m sorry…I was being a little sarcastic. I didn’t really think he came here for a job thats for sure. But you are just so darn nice I feel bad now. Touche.
Thats exactly why he is here. Bangor has one of the most liberal social service systems in the state. That on top of our tidal wave of handouts all over the state.
Hate to tell you but most people in Arkansas don’t even know Maine exists or that its part of Canada (originally from Ark myself).
Thats a fact–worked in Texas and La and Alabama in yrs past – most peeps that have heard of Maine thought it was part of Canada or even the UK.
Sounds like an urban myth.
I don’t think the bus goes to Hawaii :)
Yeah, but Greyhound doesn’t go to Hawaii
sure it does,, got an old bus?
“nonextraditable warrants”.. That means that the issueing agency (out of state) will not extradite the subject back if they are encountered outside of the state. So they knew they just can’t do anything about it. Just because someone has a warrant doesnt mean there is nationwide extradition.
Talk about making a bad first impression
how about, we get him a return ticket! simple fix.
That was done in the past. Trouble is that sometimes you get back some of the former local problems the city had said goodbye to…
well,, how about we send him and 3 of his closest buddy’s? that should make a good offset,,, : )
Hi Bangorians…enjoy!
This is just stupid. This guy obviously doesn’t learn. Look at the money they wasted “babysitting” him, not to mention tying up a cop all night. Send him back where he came from. Probably came for the Methadone clinics
To people asking why people come here….I have worked in the mental health system for years and I have also worked with people that are homeless. Often, the only option service providers have for somebody is to offer a bus ticket to someplace else. I have seen person after person hop across the country because of this. They end up in Bangor because that is where Greyhound stops. They sometimes end up in Presque Isle because they catch one last ticket on the Cyr bus. Our social services systems are badly broken and often cannot help people that are desperately in need. It sounds like this guy has some mental health issues, it saddens me that he landed in jail and I hope he can get some assistance from a good social worker specialized in the mental health/homeless population.
Someone looking for housing and meals for the winter?
Probably read about Bangor on the Lonely Planet website…
Here’s a thought…let’s put him on a one way Greyhound ticket BACK to Arkansas? And return the favor that some of these other states have tried to do to us and put some of our transient population on a one way ticket as well.
one way ticket to where ? NH? NY? PA? Waterville ? And you are gonna foot the bill for these tickets right ? And the cost of the roundup ? geeeeeez…
Why would the police let this go on for as long as they did. Wow! He should have ben arrested when he was reported for talking to children at a school. They didnt even run his back ground till the final time he caused a scene. Scary