BANGOR, Maine — The Massachusetts native who was mortally stabbed in the abdomen Saturday after reportedly getting into a fight with a tenant at an Elm Street apartment about the synthetic drug bath salts will be laid to rest on Saturday in the Bay State, his obituary states.
Bangor police continue to investigate the stabbing of Jeffrey S. LeBlanc, 34, and are still looking for witnesses to come forward, Sgt. Paul Edwards said Wednesday.
“If anybody heard anything or saw anything, we would appreciate a call,” he said.
Police went to 80 Elm St. at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday after receiving a report that a man had been stabbed there. They found a trail of blood in the snow and an injured LeBlanc, who was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center and died late Saturday morning, Edwards said.
Tina Girouard, who identified herself as LeBlanc’s wife, told the Bangor Daily News on Monday that the stabbing was “drug-related. It’s monkey dust.”
Bath salts, a hallucinogenic stimulant drug that first emerged in Maine in early 2011, is called “monkey dust” on the streets of Bangor. It has caused users to hallucinate, convulse, have psychotic episodes and thoughts of suicide, police have said.
Girouard said LeBlanc started using bath salts less than a week before his death, and that he was arguing with a man who lives at 80 Elm St. just before he was stabbed. She also said she watched as the tenant and others inside the apartment smoked the street drug using folded tinfoil.
Girouard said she and LeBlanc moved to Bangor from Massachusetts five months ago to get away from crack cocaine — the couple’s drug of choice — after finding out she was pregnant.
Detectives with the police department’s Criminal Investigations Division are working on the homicide case with the Maine attorney general’s office, which would prosecute anyone charged, Edwards said.
LeBlanc died from a stab wound to the abdomen and his death has been ruled a homicide, Mark Belserene, a spokesman for the state medical examiner’s office, said Monday.
Edwards said he could not say whether a weapon was recovered from the scene.
“I can say evidence was recovered from the scene, [but] I can’t get into specifics,” the sergeant said.
LeBlanc, who has a twin brother, was born in Waltham, Mass., to Paul J. LeBlanc and Lori (Dunlop) LeBlanc, his obituary states. He grew up in Waltham and Acton and graduated from Acton Boxborough Regional High School before moving to Ayer 10 years ago.
He enjoyed fishing and is survived by his parents, a stepmother, his twin brother, Jason P. LeBlanc of Leominster, Mass., and his sister, Kelly Pierce of Waltham, as well as several cousins, aunts and uncles.
His funeral is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Saturday at the T.J. Anderson & Son Funeral Home, 25 Fitchburg Road in Ayer, Mass.
Well… The obit. didn’t mention a wife, so I’m thinking the “Pregnant?” lady who claimed she was…..wasn’t…..
She’s being called out as a liar in the other articles related to this story. If it is true…the person who wrote the article(s) should be FIRED for basing the entire thing on the word of an unconfirmed busy-body.
Tina Girouard, who identified herself as LeBlanc’s wife, told the Bangor Daily News.
Read it one more time.
I don’t think that really matters does it? I’m guessing she is his long time girlfriend… who cares whether she said she was his wife… The man is dead!
Because if she’s lying about being his wife, it stands to reason she’s lying about other things as well.
really, that’s what you got out of the statement that she was his wife????
i’ve been with my boyfriend for 13 years, I say I am his wife… you are reading too much into it
Good luck helping your boyfriend if he gets ill or injured. You’ll find out very quickly that a girlfriend has much less legal power than a wife.
Oh but shes been telling people shes his wife. She’ll be just fine!
news flash, she ” the wife” is not always the one who will get the final say..
I am sure that is correct. I only brought it up because I know a woman who has been through hell these last two months trying to provide care for her boyfriend of twelve years after he had a serious stroke and she discovered she few legal rights to assist him and no legal claim whatever on his estate, which is considerable while she is effectively indigent without him.
sorry to hear of your friends situation…. IF he is competent, you could suggest to her, they both could get an appointment with a attorney, to have him sign a POA for his financial matters; that is his right!!
looks like his folks are taking care of his arrangements..shouldn’t a “wife” do that or at least be mentioned in the obit?
juss askin
You mean like why she was really there. An admitted drug addict, at an apartment where drug activity is going on at 2:00am. I’m guessing she was there for the drugs too.
You mean like why she was really there? An admitted drug addict at an apartment she didn’t live in at 2:00am where she knew Bath Salts were being done. I believe she was there for her husband, I also believe she was there for the drugs.
Guessing or you know? There seems to be an awful lot of guessing going on in this story.
The obit doesn’t mention that he was a father, either. Something smells funny.
Maybe we don’t know…
Maybe we don’t care either. It’s hard to care about someone when they don’t care about themselves.
Maybe she doesn’t know either…
I’m sorry for the victim. I’m displeased with the sloppy landlord.
Ah come on Bangorian. Those tenants only had 22 visits last year from the cops. They deserve a chance. Seriously though, if I was their next door neighbor, after the 4th time the cops came, I’d have gone to City Hall and found out who owned the building and paid them a visit. That information is available to the public from one of the offices in City Hall. I know. I did it once. I found out the building was owned by ******** Properties with a Brewer address. I drove over to the address and it was a lawyer’s office, with absolutely no signage or clue that the lawyer was ” ******** Properties”. When I went in and asked to speak to the owner of property management company, I was quickly given the bum’s rush out. So yes, you are right. There are landlords that couldn’t care less what goes on in their properties, so long as they get their rent. And they certainly don’t care that their tenants are are a horror show for all their neighbors around them. I wasn’t surprised the the slumlord was a lawyer as it’s such a good fit for professions.
I think you need to get the facts straight about the 22 visits. The current tenants have only been at the residence 3 months. The 22 visits by the PD were for the previous tenants. The next door neighbors also had several calls to their home, so you might not want to live next door. This information is easily provided by the landlord.
My facts are straight. The BDN said in a prior article that last year there were 22 visits by the police to 80 Elm Street. They didn’t mention there were different tenants then. Neither did I. I wrote that after the 4th visit by police I would have visited the landlord. I made no specific reference to any tenant. It would appear that the landlord doesn’t do any reference checks of his potential tenants. $$$. As far as I’m concerned, there is no difference between the current tenants and the last one’s, and apparently the next door neighbors either.
The landlord lives in the building.
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I moved to Maine 25 years ago I can tell you the drug problems are worse in Maine (particularly Bangor) than in Massachusetts. Poor guy thought he would get away from the drugs only to find out there are plentiful amounts of illegal drugs. Nobody seems to be working…just collecting off the state and partying.
I am a lifelong resident of Bangor and have a lot of friends at the Bangor PD. The drug problem has escalated extensively in the past 10 years. It is scary the amount of drug incidents that do not make the Bangor Daily or the nightly news. I do believe the drug problems are worse. But realize this; this state is one of the poorest states per capita in the nation. What else can depressed people do when they can’t find work???
That seems to be right around the time they started putting all the “for profit” methadone clinics in our fair city. Will have to agree to disagree that the majority of these drug abusers are NOT
“depressed people” who can’t find jobs. Many are people who have drug habits that got out of control. A little pot, too many pills, some bath salts…Ok…they’re addicts now, lets start the methadone or suboxene. That is exactly how it works here. Then you really have some problems. Now they are hooked for life. Just like the “for profit” centers want them to be. And yes, sad to say I have first hand knowledge of it. Too many family members who now have a permanent problem to something that only needed a temporary solution. Only wish this was because this is a poor state. It’s known for it’s handouts and that appeals to many who want an easy ride.
Im the fiance never said his wife and as far as bath salts i never tried it and i went to the address due to the fact of my fiance being beatn to the point i couldnt reconize him. We both never knew there were bathsalts at the address or we would have never went there. The BDN put alot of things in the paper i never said so news channel 7 cleared them up. And as far as Jamies comment i never lost my kids they went to there fathers while i went to rehab and got straight to do the right things for my kids and they will be home soon
Well if your boyfriend was beaten beyond recognition….and supposedly you are 7 months pregnant, didn’t it possibly enter into your mind that YOU and your UNBORN child should stay away from the place? Unreal.
And clearly you can’t even keep your lies straight. YOU posted this the other night. “Tina Girouard posted a comment in Man dies after stabbing on Elm Street in Bangor · 4 days agoThis is my husband and right now his family and I need u all for prays not stupid disscusions”
he was my husband at heart. he told everyone we were married. And like the other people on here have saId this isnt a gossip line and as far as going to the house i didnt know what kind of house it was. and thank you servived2
Ok, then why did the family not even acknowledge you in the obituary. Clearly they don’t recognize you as anyone significant in his life.
For those of u who judge people read matthew 7 in the king james bible and if u dont get it read it again
Tina, sorry for your loss. Personally, I’d stay off this website, get rest and take care of your body as you are going to have a baby. Get healthy and be good mother to your fiancees child.
thank you and i will take ur advice
I know this guy. Sorry to say, but I’m not surprised. I feel bad for his family, but something like this was bound to happen. :( . It sucks that when he tried to get clean he ran into more problems.But none of you were there to sit and judge his girl. You don’t know the whole story. Only what the media wants you to feed into like programmed little drones. As far as her calling him her husband, i been with my bf 9 years, we are not married but i call him my husband and he calls me his wife. And also now there is a fatherless baby. Show a little compassion. R.I.P. Geo
They were only together for about nine months. <–Fact.
I question the validity of pretty much anything she's said thus far, but I do agree that those who speculate and post their imagined (vs. fact based) scenarios, should stop. It's so disrespectful to the families involved.
Well i don’t know her,only him
One of my favorite Rolling Stones songs Monkey Man!!
Offer up some monkey dust to the addicts..they will sing like birds..if they even remember what happened
Just a thought. If you don’t want people to judge you or the family, maybe, just maybe you all shouldn’t air your dirty family laundry on Facebook. All it takes is a simple search into the Leblanc family on FB to see that drugs is a family problem. None of them have their lives together and split their time between jail and rehab. The Bangor Daily News needs to do better research and stop deleting posts that are based on what the family posts themselves.