LINCOLN, Maine — A Charleston man was charged with criminal threatening Tuesday night after a landlord said the man pulled a knife on him during a dispute over a heating system, police said Wednesday.
Paul Myers, 43, of Charleston was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and operating a motor vehicle after a driver’s license suspension, said Detective Mark Fucile, the Lincoln Police Department’s spokesman.
The incident began for Sgt. Glenn Graef when a Penobscot County Regional Communications Center dispatcher radioed a report about 7:30 p.m. that Myers had got into an argument at a Lee Road apartment complex before leaving in a red Toyota pickup truck, Fucile said.
Graef reportedly saw the pickup on Main Street by the Methodist church and pulled it over about 7:50 p.m. He was soon joined by reserve Lincoln police Officer Joshua McKechnie and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Peter Stone. Graef identified Myers and smelled alcohol on Myers’ breath, Fucile said. The detective added that Myers also yelled and swore at the officers.
A Breathalyzer test later revealed that Myers had a blood-alcohol content of .12, according to Fucile. The legal limit for operating a vehicle is .08, he said.
Graef took Myers back to the station, where the landlord showed the sergeant a knife that he said was pulled on him during the dispute. He said that Myers also had followed him into the apartment complex parking lot, yelling at him to turn up the apartment’s heat and threatening him, Fucile said.
The landlord “said he heard a click” of the knife being pulled, Fucile said.
Myers admitted that the knife was his, Fucile said.
A bail commissioner set a $100,000 bail on Myers and a bail condition that he avoid contact with those involved in the dispute. Myers was taken to Penobscot County Jail and is due to appear at the Bangor Judicial Center on Nov. 13, Fucile said.