BAR HARBOR, Maine — A Massachusetts man is facing a charge of burglary after he smashed his way through the glass front door of a downtown store Sunday night and stole two bottles of wine, according to local police.
Nicholas Cumberland, 21, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was quickly apprehended around 10 p.m. after Sgt. Shawn Farrar of the Bar Harbor Police Department heard the sound of breaking glass as he was leaving the police station, which is about 100 yards away on the opposite side of the Village Green.
“I was surprised by how thick the glass [in the door] was,” Farrar said Monday evening. “It made quite a noise.”
Farrar said he had just finished his shift, so he and Officer Eric McLaughlin, who was on duty, quickly responded and found Cumberland standing on the sidewalk outside the store bleeding profusely from his hand. Sitting upright on the sidewalk were two bottles of wine that were covered in blood, Farrar said.
The bottles had been removed from a window display just inside the door, Farrar said. An employee who lives above the store and also heard the loud sound of smashing glass called the owner, who came to the store and then told police that nothing else was missing, the officer said.
Cumberland and four other people, including his girlfriend, had just arrived in Bar Harbor about an hour earlier in a rented U-Haul moving van, according to Farrar. Only Cumberland and his girlfriend were at the scene of the burglary when police arrived, Farrar said, and only Cumberland has been charged as a result of the incident.
Cumberland, who Farrar described as “agitated,” was taken to Mount Desert Island Hospital to have his hand treated and then was transported to Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth. He was still in custody at the jail on Tuesday morning, according to jail staff.
