BANGOR, Maine — Bail was set at $5,000 cash for a Levant man who was arrested on Friday in connection with a robbery and assault on Grove Street.
Joseph R. Paul, 23, was charged with robbery and aggravated assault. The robbery charge is a Class A felony that carries a maximum penalty of 30 years, and the aggravated assault is a Class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
During Paul’s initial appearance Monday at the Penobscot Judicial Center, Penobscot County Assistant District Attorney Susan Pope said that Paul and Jacob Lovely, 17, of Bangor entered an apartment on Grove Street where a tenant and her boyfriend, who are familiar with Lovely, were staying and robbed them of $800.
In addition, the renter’s boyfriend was beaten with two-by-fours, Pope said, noting that the man suffered a concussion, a wound to the back of his head that required four staples, a broken nose, and eye socket and bruises on his arms and legs.
Bangor police found the suspects at the Big Apple on State Street, she said. She said that Paul was identified as a suspect by the jacket he was wearing at the time.
Pope said Lovely was arrested at the same time on two warrants but has not been charged with the Bangor robbery and assault.
Other conditions of release set by Judge Gregory Campbell include that he not contact the victims, witnesses and the co-defendant in his case, not use drugs or alcohol, that he not have dangerous weapons and that he submit to random searches.