FREEPORT, Maine — A 29-year-old Westbrook man was arrested Friday morning after police say he interrupted the town’s 9/11 ceremony to protest, then refused to leave.
James Roux faces charges of disorderly conduct and refusing to submit to arrest, Freeport police Lt. Susan Nourse said.
The annual ceremony, held in the town’s public safety building, marks the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
During a speech Friday by Maj. Adam Sacchetti of the U.S. Marine Corps, an inspector instructor with Company A, First Battalion, 25th Marines based in Brunswick, Roux “came into the ceremony hollering his personal views about whether or not the ceremony should take place and things that had happened to him,” Nourse said. “We asked him to leave, he refused, and he was arrested.”
Officers took Roux outside in a matter of seconds, Nourse said, handcuffed him and took him to Cumberland County Jail. He is scheduled to appear in Portland Unified Court on Nov. 17.