LINCOLN, Maine — A local man was charged with aggravated assault on Wednesday after he allegedly stabbed another man with a carpenter’s pencil during an argument over a loud movie. The victim suffered minor injuries, police said.
Troy Niles, 25, was also charged with criminal mischief and criminal threatening. He is being held at Penobscot County Jail in Bangor on $500 cash bail. The alleged victim, a 48-year-old man from Lincoln, had bruises and cuts on his head and a stab wound near his ribs, officials said.
Police said they received a 911 call from a West Broadway home at about 2:40 a.m. reporting the alleged stabbing. When Officer Joshua McKechnie arrived, he found the wounded man and signs of a fight, said Detective Mark Fucile, police spokesman.
Residents reported that Niles was in a bedroom at the home and had complained that a movie several others were watching was too loud. The residents disagreed, and Niles then came downstairs and confronted them. He allegedly shoved another person before the man stepped between them, Fucile said.
The man and Niles tussled on the kitchen floor, with the man suffering cuts to his head. Then Niles went outside the home and allegedly smashed a window with a pitchfork before damaging a door with it. He also allegedly threatened to burn down the home before the stabbing occurred, Fucile said.
Niles will appear at Penobscot Judicial Center on Friday, a jail official said.
He is due in Lincoln District Court on June 2 to answer to the mischief and threatening charges and at Penobscot Judicial Center to answer the assault charge on June 11, Fucile said.