FRANKFORT, Maine — A local man who apparently suspected his estranged wife was involved in a relationship with someone else was arrested Saturday afternoon after allegedly shooting at another man.
Ian Walsh, 33, of Frankfort evidently went to a residence where the woman and two male friends were in order to retrieve a video game system, Waldo County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Jason Trundy said Monday.
“He confronted her in regards to his belief that she was engaged in a relationship with one of the men there,” Trundy said. “He produced a handgun, pointed it at one of the men, pulled the trigger.”
But instead of firing a live bullet, the gun instead made a clicking sound.
Walsh went to get the video game system and then pulled out the weapon one more time, telling the people in the home that he had a bullet in it.
He pulled the trigger again, this time shooting a bullet about a foot away from one of the men. The bullet traveled through two walls and finally lodged in a third wall.
Walsh left the home, Trundy said, and the people there called police.
Deputy Ben Seekins of the sheriff’s office documented the scene, retrieving the bullet and the spent casing and taking statements from the people at the home. He got a description of Walsh’s vehicle and information about the house he likely was staying before rounding up police backup to locate him.
Seekins, Deputy James Porter, Officer Eric Bonney of the Searsport Police Department and Trundy met up and went to the Frankfort house where Walsh’s vehicle was parked. Apparently, the police were spotted by one of several children in the home, who told an adult that officers were waiting outside.
Walsh stepped out and met the policemen in the driveway. He complied with every order the officers gave him and was taken peacefully into custody, Trundy said. Another man at that residence gave police the handgun.
Walsh was taken to Waldo County Jail in Belfast. He was charged with aggravated reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, a class B felony, and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, a class C charge.
He was scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon at Belfast District Court.
Ian give it up! Look at the trouble you’re in now. Forget about her it’s over!
Too late.
That’s good advice, but too late for him.
Loser.
Put him away for a decade at least.
I like the shirt.
You don’t know what you are talking about……..
okay 20 years
oh, okay….knowing someone and knowing of them is different GS. And when you are part of the problem that is a whole different story. Pipe down now……..
whatever that is supposed to mean
Video gamer.
Thinks it is real.
Deluded, for sure.
Are you going for a haiku? It’s 5 – 7- 5.
Didn’t think anyone would catch it.
Cant sneak anything past the BDN’s astute readers/commenters.
The “american haiku” in vogue by some parties as of late
seems to have no rhyme nor reason to do with “real” haiku.
…. But that is debatable, as well.
December night
— way too dark too soon
—dull grey clouds hide the full moon
—skies have yet to clear
— They, having no skill,
— Break the rules of the haiku,
— (Oh yeah, nature: grass)
Dualing haiku on a no-news day…who says blogs can’t be entertaining.
Like this?
Readheaded Stepchild
Tries to write a bold haiku
Needs three syllables
Grasshopper, American Haiku ….
anything goes.
This is 5 – 4 – 5.
What a loser, seriously over a video game system. It is time for someone to grow up.
It wasn’t the gaming system he was upset over…
Exactly. The fact that some of these posters don’t see it after reading the article shows you why there is still way too much of these kind of thing going on.
Small wonder why she is estranged from him.
What a dumb look on his face
He does look a little nonplussed alright.
County — what’s the opposite of ‘nonplussed?” “Disgruntled?” LOL
That sounds about right, Bill. The opposite of that “who, me?” look that he’s sporting.
What is with these guys? If you’re going to shoot something, go home and aim at your foot. The pain will be less, and cheaper, too. And guess what? He is going to have all his firearms…taken away for good! And the job market just got very, very small for him. And the estranged wife will be laughing up a storm.
He must not have finished Black Ops 2 Yet
“If I can’t have her, no one else will”. There is way too much of that. Grow up and get over the vindictiveness. No “class” whatsoever with so many of them.
No woman is worth going to jail over…and she was probably with both of the dudes.
Zumba instructor?
Words of a bitter person. Yup, he’s the shmuck busted for stupidly brandishing a loaded weapon but she’s probably loose. So what is it? Her fault?
She probably is loose with all the guys involved.
You wish…
I don’t give a rats behind if she’s getting horizontal with half the neighborhood, this guy is the one that made an incredibly stupid mistake and will now pay the price.
Nope not her fault….especially in this society of if it feels good do it.
And I’m not bitter, just a realist.
He did more than to brandish the weapon.
dudes like you have very vivid imagination. It’s not the ONLY thing on a woman’s mind .You and your buddies below remind me of the version of drew peterson—untouched i saw recently—.jealous ,jealous, jealous…control freaks.
Sometimes the women are the control freaks.
Hey Mom look at me now.Never understood how somebody could get so twisted up over a girl,enough already.Worst part is the ladies will be lined up waiting for him when he gets outa prison.Then we will be reading about how he killed one of them.
Well smart guy, was she worth all that?
He looks like the kind of guy who grunts loudly at the gym.
Know your facts before you post on something that you have no clue about. If you are unsure of a situation, it is best to keep your interpretation to yourself.
Plenty of fish in the sea, should have let her go if she wanted. Now he can get sold to the guy in prison with the most cigarettes, way to go.
Looks like he has to pee.
But I thought it was the gays that were ruining traditional marriage…
any protection form abuse order on file on this geniuis?
read the headline….was expecting a story about a wife with the ability to shoot bullets out of some part of her body.
found just more mid coast hi-jinx involving the underemployed and regular old guns. rats.
get back to me when you have a story about a wife you can use as a gun, please
Abigail Curtis I know this isn’t a big deal but you being a writer for the Bangor
Daily you should proof read your article. Second paragraph shouldn’t you have a comma between were (here) in order to retrieve.
Should have put his big boy pants on Ian. She doesn’t want you any more.
if you aim a gun at me it had better kill me,cause if you dont shoot me i will come kill you.
All that really matters here are gun, shoot, estranged wife. This going on and on about her morals — or lack of seems to be the most popular angle — sounds like soap opera stuff and don’t matter at all. Another love-sick fool gets himself in wrong, tah-dah. And wasn’t even serious about it to boot, gonna bother to walk in there packing ought to have at least shooting somebody in mind.. Thought he got punk’d for the PS3 and chumped himself instead. WTG, pally.