BANGOR, Maine — The Levant man stabbed last month on Market Street made his first appearance Friday at the Penobscot Judicial Center on a robbery charge.
Harry “Joey” Coffin III, 25, did not enter a plea because he has not yet been indicted by the Penobscot County grand jury.
Superior Court Justice Ann Murray set bail at $50,000 cash, the same amount that was set Wednesday for Coffin’s co-defendant Nathan Daigle, 27, of Glenburn.
Through his court-appointed attorney of the day, Arrian Stockdell of Bangor, Coffin said as result of the stab wound, his lung partially collapsed and his liver was damaged. Coffin also said he still has stitches that need to be cared for.
Coffin was stabbed about 3:45 p.m. March 27 after he and Daigle, wearing ski masks, allegedly kicked down the door of 89 Market St. armed with a pipe and a knife. The man inside the apartment grabbed a knife to defend himself, and the woman ran out of the apartment, according to the affidavit.
Daigle and Coffin allegedly followed the woman outside, and the man who lived at the house followed her. The man stabbed Coffin when he went after the woman, the affidavit said.
The man told police he chased Coffin and Daigle off the property and into the street. When police arrived, they followed footprints and blood droplets in the snow to the parking lot of a senior housing complex on Harlow Street, the affidavit said.
While investigating the case, police received a call from St. Joseph Hospital that a man with a stab wound had come to their emergency room and been transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center.
At EMMC, Coffin at first told detectives he “had been sharpening a hunting knife at his home and mistakenly left it on a futon, the affidavit said. Coffin told police that when he “jumped on the futon, he was impaled on the knife,” according to the affidavit.
He allegedly later changed his story and told investigators he and Daigle went to the Market Street house to rob a person they believed to be a drug dealer. The victims of the robbery have not been charged with a crime as a result of the incident, according to police.
Coffin turned himself in at the Bangor police station on Wednesday. He was arrested and taken to the jail. Both men remained Friday night at the jail unable to post bail.
Daigle and Coffin are next scheduled to appear in court May 12.
If convicted of robbery, each man faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000.
BDN writer Ryan McLaughlin contributed to this report.