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A 22-year-old University of Maine student from Bourne, Mass., was arrested Friday after he allegedly threatened a group of Massachusetts middle school students with a knife.
Police charged Caleb Savage with operating under the influence of drugs, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a marked lanes violation. He reportedly stopped in a red GMC pickup and threatened several Bourne Middle School students as they waited at a bus stop. The students texted their parents who subsequently called police. Savage was arrested around 7:45 a.m.
Sergeant Dennis Woodside of the Bourne Police Department described Savage’s weapon as a “dagger-type knife” 6 to 8 inches long.
Woodside said Savage was incoherent when police arrested him and that he reportedly told officers, “Yeah man, blue ice with tea on top, yo,” after they asked him if he had driven by any other bus stops recently.
“He was pretty whacked out, I guess,” Woodside said.
Savage was being held at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility Friday afternoon in Bourne pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Wednesday. Unidentified pills were found in Savage’s truck, which were sent to the state crime lab, according to The Cape Cod Times.
Woodside said he did not know if Savage has a history of mental illness.
Savage wrote 19 sports articles for The Maine Campus from October 2007 to March 2008.
