BAR HARBOR, Maine — An Ellsworth man with a recent history of arrests remains in custody after he engaged in lewd conduct last week at the Mount Desert Island YMCA, according to police.
Bar Harbor police on Thursday, Sept. 23, went to the local Y for a report of a naked man lying on the floor of a public bathroom there, according to a prepared statement released Monday by the Police Department.
Officers arrested the man, identified as 19 year-old Nicholas D. Pike, for violating bail conditions stemming from an earlier arrest that prohibited him from being at any location primarily used by children under age 16, police indicated.
The following day, after further investigation and consultation with Hancock County District Attorney Matthew Foster, Pike was arrested at his Ellsworth home on a Class C felony charge of visual sexual aggression against a child under the age of 12, police said.
According to Foster, Pike was on bail for an earlier arrest in Ellsworth on charges that he sent one or more nude photos of himself to a boy over the age of 12 in Canada, and that he stole a pair of boy’s underwear from Wal-Mart in Ellsworth. Foster added that Pike has an incident on his juvenile record similar to what happened at the YMCA, but he declined to provide details about that incident.
Pike is being held without bail at the Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth, officials said.
Foster said Pike’s defense attorney, Steven Juskewitch, has filed motions requesting a mental evaluation of the defendant. Foster said that though Pike’s alleged behavior is illegal, he believes the situation represents more of an mental health problem for Pike than it does a threat of physical harm to the general public.
