BREWER, Maine — Local law enforcement asked people to avoid State Street, which was closed around midnight Friday to deal with an emergency situation, a dispatcher with Penobscot Regional Communications Center said Saturday.
The situation was an armed standoff and led to the arrest of a Levant man at noon, 12-hours after it started, Police Chief Perry Antone said.
“State Street is closed for an undetermined amount of time for an emergency situation,” the dispatcher said at around 8 a.m.
The cause of the emergency initially was not released. But residents in the area said it was a standoff.
One neighbor, a 27-year-old who asked not to be identified, was evacuated along with her four roommates and said police told them the incident involved “a guy with a gun.”
State Street was closed between North Main Street and approximately Washington Street until noon Saturday, when Levant resident Brandon Ogden was arrested for felony terrorizing, as well as creating a police standoff, Antone said.
One gun was recovered, the police chief said at noon, adding that police had yet to search the apartment. Ogden arrived at the State Street apartment with a gun, scaring the people who lived there, who “left in fear” and called police for help, Antone said.