Troop F Report
Editor’s Note: An arrest or summons does not constitute a finding of guilt. An individual charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at criminal proceedings.
The Maine State Police Troop F barracks in Houlton responded to 169 calls for service from Monday, June 20 to Sunday, June 26, 2016.
Monday, June 20
Trooper Saucier took a report of theft in Oxbow where a female had a check cashed fraudulently from her account and after reporting it to the bank they referred her to law enforcement. The case remains under investigation.
– Trooper Curtin investigated a theft of copper pipes and wheels off a vehicle from the Carson Rd in Woodland. The residence had been left abandoned and unsecured for some time and the owner suspected the most recent thefts to be within the last 30 days. The case remains under investigation.
Tuesday, June 21
– Trooper Endre and Recruit Adams were advised that the Houlton RCC had received two complaints referencing the same vehicle on Route 11. One of the calls was for poor operation and the second caller stated that the same vehicle almost struck a construction worker. Tr. Endre and Recruit Adams stopped the vehicle on Route 11 in Moro. The 59-year-old operator admitted to drinking. After SFST’s Tr. Endre arrested the male operator for OUI.
Wednesday, June 22
– Trooper Sucy arrested two Patten men for violating their conditions of release after conducting a bail check on the men. Both men tested positive for methamphetamines during a urinalysis screening. Upon further investigation one of the men admitted to possessing meth which was inside a camper where he has been staying. When the man opened the camper door Tr. Sucy noticed items that he suspected to be part of a meth lab. Trooper Sucy also observed a one-pot meth making bottle on the ground outside the trailer. MDEA was contacted, conducted a search warrant, and determined there were several one-pot meth labs in the camper and the two men are facing additional charges from MDEA.
Thursday, June 23
– Cpl. Quint and Recruit Desrosier were investigating a traffic complaint and located the vehicle in Easton. Recruit Desrosier suspected the driver, a 61-year-old man from Limestone, to be impaired. After conducting Field Sobriety Testing the driver was arrested for OUI.
Saturday, June 25
– Trooper Stoutamyer and Recruit Kilcollins stopped a vehicle in the town of Mars Hill for an expired inspection sticker and found that the 23-year-old operator from Easton had a suspended license. The man was subsequently summoned for OAS, and he was transported from the traffic stop by a coworker.
– Trooper Stoutamyer and Recruit Kilcollins stopped a vehicle on Rt. 1 in Presque Isle for an expired inspection sticker. The female was the protected party of an active protection order, and was protected from a 24-year-old male subject from Presque Isle. The vehicle had a male passenger who at first gave a fake name, but shortly thereafter provided his actual name which identified him as being the defendant in the PFAO. The man was subsequently arrested for violating the protection order, and taken to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton.
– Tr. Endre and Recruit Adams responded to Masardis for a domestic violence assault. A male party called the RCC reporting that his ex-girlfriend had just assaulted him during a child exchange. At approximately the same time the female party called 911 saying that her ex-boyfriend just taken her son. After Tr. Endre interviewed both parties the female party was arrested for domestic violence assault and transported to the ACJ.
