Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department Incident Report

By Chief Deputy Bob Young

Bowerbank: Communications equipment was stolen from a work truck and a 17-year-old was missing.

Guilford: Road signs were stolen; requested well-being check; report of a violation of a protection from abuse order; a car squealing tires during the night and money stolen from a car over night. A landlord reported that tenants have stolen metal; a residential burglary alarm was false and a dangerous driver was on Water St. There was another violation of a protection order, a report of being harassed and deputies responded to a report of a domestic violence incident and a separate report of a civil dispute. A man presumed to be drunk was laying on the side of the road [he was] and a car without registration plates was in a business parking lot late at night.
Sangerville: A tenant reports being threatened by the landlord, a guy refused to leave an apartment house, deputies quieted a civil dispute between a mother and son, three 911 hang-up calls and people were stealing copper from a vacant house. The mother of a young teen girl reported that her daughter was receiving naked pictures from an adult male in Egypt. A woman wanted the sheriff’s office to intervene in a dispute with the power company.
Sebec: A young teen girl ran away but was located by deputies; another teen girl was reported missing but was actually visiting a relative at the hospital; a suspicious car was reported at the four corners; and late at night, a man was flagging down passing cars; deputies responded to a woman who overdosed. The woman who observed the man flagging down cars did the right thing; she called 911. If help is genuinely needed it will arrive but she didn’t put herself in a vulnerable or dangerous position. When deputies arrived about 10 minutes later, the guy was gone. I don’t know what his ploy was but I’m glad she didn’t stop.
    In another serious call, an intoxicated man with a pistol was reported to be walking around the neighborhood threatening people and suicidal. Deputies, along with officers from Milo and Brownville PD’s, responded, found the man, and determined that the report was inaccurate. No crime had been committed and he wasn’t intoxicated.
Big Eddy: Theft of a fly fishing vest and flies.
Atkinson: There was a vehicle hanging around the town hall at night and lights were on in a house where the owner was on vacation. Manure in the road made for slippery driving conditions.
Abbot: A person was being harassed via telephone; a suspicious vehicle was next door, a civil dispute, and an IRS scam.
Lakeview: Two separate fireworks complaints.
Harford’s Point: A person being harassed by telephone. We frequently have complaints of being harassed by telephone, text, email, etc. Unless the texts or messages are threatening, often the best thing to do is ignore it. Most people harass you to get a certain response and emotion from you. By ignoring it, it takes the fun or devious delight away and it often stops. Certainly if there is threatening involving bodily harm to you or another or damage to property, or if it’s part of stalking behavior by an ex, or it won’t stop, then a call to the police is warranted.
Shirley: There was suspicious activity at a storage unit.
Blanchard: Two chains and a gas grill were stolen from a camp.
Orneville: Requested well-being check, the theft of lots of liquor from a garage and an unwanted person refusing to leave. A guy from out of state called to say he believed his wife and child were being held against their will; deputies responded and escorted them from the residence. It should go without saying, but if you are on someone else’s land or in their building/home and they tell you leave, you must leave. To not do so is a crime — criminal trespass — and you can be arrested. Often these calls come out of a civil dispute or a relationship gone bad, but if you are told to leave, you must, even if initially you were invited there.
Monson: A guy found an abandoned boat, a woman was caught shoplifting, there was a 911 hang-up, and Deputies responded to a car fire. Two young boys at the public beach threatened to rape a young girl who was there. Because of their ages it became a parental issue to deal with.
Big Moose: A report of trespassing and the theft of a kayak rack from a parked car. A dispute over burning brush led to the issuing of no trespass and cease harassment orders.
Lily Bay: Moose watchers were blocking traffic.
T7R9: There was a disconnected 911 call from the Appalachian Trail.
Parkman: Theft of firewood from a residence.

Arrests and Charges

Shawn Nick, Parkman, on an arrest warrant.
Tucker Hoffman, Parkman, for an expired license.
Phillip Williams, Milo, on an arrest warrant.
Scott Bridge, Guilford, on a probation and parole hold.
Gerald Grant, Milo, on an arrest warrant.
Mark Simon, Parkman, on an arrest warrant.
Charles Bean Sangerville, for theft.
Matthew Spearing, OUI.
Benjamin Steeves, failure to report an accident.