PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 203 calls from June 22 to 29. Among them were:
* At 6:42 p.m. June 28, Sgt. Timothy Ontengco responded to a report of shots fired at the laundromat on Bridge Street in Porter. Deputies from the York County Sheriff’s Office and Maine State Police troopers also responded. Ontengco was unavailable for comment on Tuesday about the case he is investigating.
* At 10:36 a.m. June 28, Deputy Joshua Daley responded to the report of a possible drunken driver on Route 2 in Rumford. The caller gave him a description of the vehicle and Daley conducted a traffic stop at 10:46 p.m. However, he said the driver showed no observable signs of intoxication, nor were there any smells of intoxicating liquors. “The driver claimed to have, at one point, swerved to avoid contact with an animal in the roadway,” he said. No action was taken.
* At 1 a.m. June 28, Deputy Josh Aylward saw a man driving a golf cart on High Street in Bethel. After stopping the driver, Aylward conducted an operating under the influence investigation and arrested Austin Garron, 24, of Melrose, Mass., on charge of OUI.
* At 8:48 p.m. June 27, Sgt. Ontengco responded to an Ossippee Trail address in Porter to assist the York County Sheriff’s Office with a theft investigation involving kayaks.
* At 6:39 p.m. June 27, Deputy Willie Nelson took a trespassing complaint call from a Delano Hill Road address in Canton. He said the caller was alerted to people being on his property off Jewett Hill Road. The caller said he has it gated off and that no one should be in there as he is having the area logged.
* At 6:38 p.m. June 27, Nelson took another trespassing complaint call from a worker at the Record Hill Wind Farm off Mine Notch Road in Roxbury. Nelson said the worker had seen a man in a red pickup trying to saw off the chain across the road to get up to the wind turbines. “The worker scared him off and noticed that a Sawzall blade was still stuck in the chain,” he said.
* At 12:38 a.m. June 27, deputies assisted Maine State Police troopers at an underage drinking party in a sand pit area off Sebago Road in Hiram. Several vehicles were towed during the incident.
* At 7:47 a.m. June 26, Cpl. Chris Davis took an animal abuse complaint call from an Irwins Way address in Otisfield about her cat being shot a few days prior with a pellet gun. The animal control officer was alerted to the incident.
* At 7:36 p.m. June 25, Chief Deputy Hart Daley reported that while traveling east on Route 2, he observed a vehicle “operating extremely erratic, crossing both the yellow centerline and white breakdown line multiple times.” Dixfield officer Dustin Broughton was sent to assist Daley, who conducted a traffic stop at Twin Rivers Lumber. Daley said that when he stopped the vehicle and investigated, “I found that the driver was attempting to eat a chicken dinner.” The driver was warned for distracted driving.
* At 6:47 p.m. June 25, Deputy Nathan Bowie took a call from a complainant reporting that someone stole bottles and cans from a donation box at a Dolloff Road address in Woodstock. He said the caller advised him that he will install a game camera to find out the thief’s identity.
* At 5:43 p.m. June 24, Deputy Richard Murray responded to a South Shore Lane address in Albany Township for a burglary and theft complaint. Two small Honda generators and two five-and-a-half gallon gas tanks were taken from a shed.
* At 12:43 p.m. June 24, Deputy Andrew Whitney took a report from a concerned citizen in Canton that youths were possibly driving an all-terrain vehicle around a cemetery near the Canton-Hartford town line on Church Street in Hartford. On arrival, he learned that the youths were simply painting the fence and no crime was committed.
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