OLD TOWN, Maine — Old Town Elementary School briefly went into lockdown mode Thursday morning after a local man caused a disturbance that ended with his arrest, according to a school official.
The incident that triggered the lockdown happened about 10:30 a.m., when Antonios Dimoulas, 61, arrived at the Stillwater Avenue school, RSU 34 Superintendent David Walker said.
“We had an issue of a parent coming to school who had an active warrant. We had expected that they might come to school, and so the plan when they came was not to buzz them into the building,” Walker said, adding that the elementary school is a secure access building.
“So the parent did not get buzzed in, and we made police aware of his presence. He was arrested and apprehended. We ended up in what we consider a lockdown mode,” the superintendent said, adding that the arrest took place just off the school grounds, near Bangor Saving Bank.
The lockdown lasted about 20 minutes, he said.
Old Town police Sgt. Josh Loring said that Dimoulas was “loud and angry” after he was refused entry to the school and that he was causing a disturbance. Loring said Dimoulas’ child was at the school at the time.
Loring said that Dimoulas was arrested on an active extraditable warrant out of New Hampshire involving a child custody case and then he was taken to Penobscot County Jail.
Dimoulas remained behind bars early Thursday evening, a jail official confirmed.