April 16, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

Man threatens to `hunt’ officer

A Bangor man faces several charges, including terrorizing, after authorities reported he threatened to make it “hunting season” on a Bangor police officer, and that he would use Halloween as a way to harm the officer undetected.

David F. “Destiny” Akins, 32, also faces charges of criminal mischief and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants after his arrest Sunday afternoon.

Akins’ confrontation with police, apparently not his first, began when Bangor police Officer Ed Potter was sent to Perry’s Market on Blue Hill East for a report of harassment early Sunday evening.

Akins wasn’t the subject of the call and the officer gave another man a warning. But Potter turned his attention toward Akins after discovering a partially full beer inside Akins’ pickup truck, and having noted that the man’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot and his speech slurred, according to the police report. Potter also could smell alcohol coming from Akins.

During field sobriety tests, Akins was unsteady on his feet and lost his balance, according to the report. Potter arrested Akins, who the officer noted has fought with police in the past. Once inside the cruiser, Akins began kicking at the door and window, breaking the door handle and prompting police to restrain his legs, Potter reported.

It was nonstop swearing in the cruiser as Potter took Akins to the police station, where he refused to take the Intoxilyzer test, Potter reported. It while on his way to the jail and inside the jail that Akins allegedly made the threats against Potter, according to the police report.

“It’s hunting season now, for sure,” Penobscot County Jail Corrections Officer Joseph White heard Akins say. “I’m going to be hunting his a-.” Other comments directed at Potter included Akins telling the officer that the officer was going to die.

“I’m going to cut him. That’s right, he’s going to get sliced,” is what Corrections Officer Peter Garland heard Akins say, according to the police report.

Potter also reported that Akins said he would use a Halloween costume that would cloak his identity and allow him to get away with his attack on Potter.

Bangor police arrested a 45-year-old woman at a Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-through over the weekend, charging the woman with drunken driving.

The woman’s 5-year-old daughter was in the back seat at the time.

Arriving at the Broadway KFC early Saturday evening, Officer Michael Kenny found Cathy G. Davis of Bangor staring straight ahead while in line at the drive-through and a young girl in the back of the station wagon.

During his conversation with Davis, Kenny could smell alcohol coming from her direction, he reported, and on three occasions she put the car into drive, including one time when she drove forward three to five feet before putting it into park at Kenny’s request.

Davis’ voice rose and fell and at one point she yelled, “My father is a retired sergeant, so don’t mess with me.”

Asked to step out and perform field sobriety tests, Davis was unsteady on her feet, repeatedly falling against the side of the building and then the car like a pinball machine, Kenny reported. She also stumbled and lost balance during the field sobriety tests, according to the police report.

Both mother and daughter were taken to the police station where Davis took an Intoxilyzer test while her daughter munched on chocolate chip cookies. Davis’ blood-alcohol content registered 0.17 percent on the Intoxilyzer test, or more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Davis was released on personal recognizance and she and her daughter were taken to a relative’s house in Brewer.

Among the items Bangor police found on 22-year-old Thomas Baker, or in the car he was driving, was a pair of nunchakus, a large buck knife, a sword and a bag of marijuana.

These things were discovered after Officer Edward A. Mercier stopped Baker for running a red light on Fourteenth and Union streets Sunday night. What wasn’t found was Baker’s license, because he didn’t have one, according to a police report.

The nunchakusweren’t immediately visible, because they were secured in Baker’s back pocket and covered by his shirt. The long sword, however, was more visible because it was beside Baker’s legs as he searched for paperwork in the car’s glove box.

Baker explained that it was his passenger’s sword, although the passenger stared straight ahead and said nothing, Mercier reported. The passenger later told the officer that the sword was not his. Also later, as he was headed to jail, Baker asked for the sword back, noting that it was an antique.

Mercier arrested Baker, charging him with operating a motor vehicle without a license and with carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. At the Penobscot County Jail, corrections officers made one final discovery in one of Baker’s pockets; a bag of marijuana, according to police.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli


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