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*A female student was issued a summons for illegal possession of alcohol by a minor Sunday around 12:30 p.m. An officer on patrol outside Wells Commons approached three individuals near the building’s exterior, and spoke with two males and a female. The woman was holding a white foam paper cup and was trying to hide it from the officer, according to police. When the officer asked what was in the cup, the female slurred her words and responded that there was Sprite soda in it. The officer then asked the female for identification and she said she had none, but stated she was 21. The woman said her name was Danielle Burns, with a birthday of April 15, 2001. The officer asked the woman if the date of birth was correct, as it would make her 2 years old. The female responded that she was indeed 2 years old. The officer then asked if he could see inside the woman’s purse, and she pulled out two bottles of vodka.
The name Danielle Burns was not found through Public Safety’s dispatch, so the officer asked the woman to follow him inside to Hart Hall, due to the snow, for further discussion. The officer searched the woman’s purse and found a MaineCard. The woman, whose real name is Jennifer Snowman, 18, of Orono, was issued a summons for illegal possession of alcohol by a minor. The other two individuals were allowed to leave.
*A student was arrested and taken to Penobscot County Jail on charges of domestic assault and criminal mischief on Sunday. An officer responded to the resident director’s apartment in Cumberland Hall at 2:30 a.m. following a report of a female involved in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Joseph Gagnon, 19, of Orono. The victim was initially unwilling to speak about the incident, and the officer noticed several red marks on the female’s neck. When asked about the marks, the victim, who is not an on-campus resident, said she and Gagnon had gotten into an argument at Cumberland Hall, where Gagnon resides. The argument may have started because Gagnon believed the victim was cheating on him with his friend.
During the initial altercation, the victim said, Gagnon threw her across the room. The two then parted ways and apparently met again when they arrived separately at Knox Hall to visit separate friends. During their time in Knox, the two allegedly made contact and Gagnon became mad and left the hall, purposely banging his head into the main entrance door. Blood and hair were retrieved from the door, which sustained substantial damage, police said.
The victim then followed Gagnon back to Cumberland, when Gagnon allegedly shook, choked and threw the victim against a wall.
Police arrested Gagnon for domestic assault and issued him a summons for criminal mischief for damaging the Knox Hall door.
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