Kidnapping charges against two men were dropped as they made their first court appearance Friday.
Michael Clark, 46, of Columbus, Ohio, and Dovan Campbell, 51, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, are accused of breaking into a Bangor woman’s home and locking her in her bathroom on Wednesday. After Bangor police arrested the men, police said the pair would be charged with kidnapping.
When the men appeared in court Friday, they were not charged with kidnapping. Instead, Clark is charged with one felony count each of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.
Campbell is charged with one felony count each of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. He is also charged with misdemeanor assault.
Neither man entered a plea, which is standard in felony cases. Those cases will be presented to the grand jury.
Both men told police they were at the home on Essex Street smoking marijuana, according to the Bangor police report. Clark told police he had been sleeping in the home for most of the day. Campbell said he had been there for roughly 45 minutes.
The woman told police that she “woke up to two big black guys busting into her door,” court records said. She knew the men by nicknames, the report said.
She told police that she had been locked in her bathroom for six hours and had been hit in the head multiple times.
The woman told police Campbell “jabbed her in the chest with his finger and slapped her on the side of the head several times,” the report said.
The woman said she went into the bathroom to try to get away from the men because she didn’t feel safe trying to leave the trailer. Her phone, which wasn’t with her, later started receiving notifications and the men put it outside the bathroom door and she used it to contact her mother, according to the report.
Her mother sent someone to pick her up and once that man arrived, she kicked out the window screen and climbed out to escape, the woman told police.
Once she escaped, she called the police. She said she was held for about six hours, the police report said.
When police arrived on scene the men initially refused to leave the home, the report said. They later walked out and were arrested, the report said.
Police found a handgun and ammunition in the home when they searched, the report said.
Clark told police the woman was “losing her mind” and that she had smoked crack cocaine, adding he had seen her with a pipe and a lighter the day before.
During a police interview, Campbell denied that he was involved in any assaults or threats, according to the report.
Campbell has a serious heart condition and is supposed to have surgery in the coming weeks, his attorney, Deven Soondar, said Friday. There is no way Campbell could have physically committed the crimes, Soondar said.
“He can’t even put on socks without getting out of breath,” Soondar said.
There are factual disagreements about what happened in the case, and the woman may not have been in her right mind, Clark’s attorney, Joseph Belisle said.
Campbell was given a $15,000 bail and Clark was given a $10,000 bail.
