BANGOR, Maine — A woman who was taken into custody Tuesday night near where a Bangor police officer shot and killed a man after a traffic stop is facing drug charges.
Kayla Massicotte, 25, was arrested at Leadbetter’s convenience store on Hammond Street, police said Wednesday. She faces charges of possession of heroin, possession of a Schedule Z drug and a bail violation, according to an official at the Penobscot County Jail.
Bangor police Sgt. Tim Cotton said Wednesday morning that Massicotte “was arrested [Tuesday] night at Leadbetter’s” but did not comment further.
Police, jail officials and the Penobscot County district attorney’s office would not confirm that Massicotte was the woman seen in the car with Joshua Jozefowicz, 23, who ran from police and was subsequently shot and killed by Bangor police Officer Ryan Jones in a wooded area behind the store.
Massicotte was taken to the Penobscot County Jail about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, according to a jail official.
During Massicotte’s video appearance on Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center, District Court Judge Gregory Campbell set her bail at $1,500 cash for both the drug possession and the bail violation charges.
At the time of her arrest Tuesday night, Massicotte was out on bail for a previous arrest for theft. To that end, Campbell scheduled a bail revocation hearing for Jan. 4 and a dispositional conference on the drug charge for Jan. 12.
Also during Wednesday’s proceedings, Ellsworth lawyer Christopher Whalley, who has represented Massicotte in other legal matters, was appointed to represent her on the Bangor charges.
Jones had pulled a vehicle over about 6 p.m. near Leadbetter’s at 1105 Hammond St. The male driver subsequently fled into the woods, according to Bangor Police Chief Mark Hathaway.
“The officer gave chase. Subsequently there was an officer-involved shooting,” Hathaway said Tuesday. “The individual that ran is deceased. The officer was not injured.”
A woman, believed to be Massicotte, was seen being led away from the scene in handcuffs.
A criminal background check on Massicotte showed a 2012 conviction in Ellsworth for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. She was fined $200 for the misdemeanor. Jail officials list her residence as Carmel. Her criminal records show her as residing in Ellsworth.
According to court documents on file at Hancock County Unified Criminal Court in Ellsworth, Massicotte has crossed paths with police twice earlier this year.
In April, she was ordered to pay a $400 fine after she pleaded guilty to theft for “obtaining or exercising control over meat products and/or price stickers” in February at Trenton Market Place, court documents indicate. In June, she pleaded guilty to having had improper registration plates on her car the prior month and was ordered to pay a $150 fine, plus surcharges.
Ellsworth police officials said Wednesday that Massicotte’s 2012 theft conviction stemmed from a shoplifting incident at the local Hannaford supermarket.
Ellsworth police also charged Massicotte in 2012 with acquiring drugs by deception after she allegedly altered a doctor’s prescription note in order to get 40 Suboxone tablets instead of just four tablets, but it was unclear Wednesday how or whether that charge has been resolved. That charge does not appear in her Maine State Bureau of Identification criminal history record, and court records stemming from charges that Massicotte faced in 2012 were unavailable.
Bangor Daily News writers Dawn Gagnon and Bill Trotter contributed to this report.
