HOULTON, Maine — An 81-year-old local man was arrested and charged with domestic assault after an incident on Friday morning.
Reginald “Jack” Dobbins was arrested at about 10:30 a.m. Friday after allegedly attacking the victim, Houlton Police Chief Joe McKenna said Monday.
The chief said he could not say where the incident took place because that might reveal the identity of the victim. He added that the victim was not seriously injured.
The police chief said that when an officer arrived at the scene, there were signs the victim had been assaulted. Dobbins was arrested and taken to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton, where he was booked and held without bail. He remained at the jail Monday.
Dobbins is the father of Reginald Dobbins, 18, who along with Samuel Geary, 16, was charged with murder on March 1 in the death of Keith Suitter.
McKenna said two women found Suitter’s red Ford F-150 pickup truck abandoned and stuck in a snowbank on March 1 about a half mile from his home and contacted the Houlton Police Department. The women realized that they knew the truck owner and went to his home to check on Suitter. They then returned to where the truck was stuck to alert police that they had found Suitter dead at his home.The homicide investigation was turned over to state police.
A cause of death has not been released.
The younger Dobbins entered no plea to a murder charge when he appeared in court on March 9. Geary entered a plea of denial.
Houlton Police Officer Stephen Nason investigated the domestic violence incident.