Alleged parking lot fight leads to five charges
Following an alleged fight that reportedly included ripping the mirror from a car door and refusing to cooperate with police officers, a Bristol woman has been charged with several crimes.
Ashley Orne, 28, of Bristol was arrested and charged with one felony and four misdemeanors after she allegedly got into an argument in a parking lot and took keys from the ignition of a running car.
According to Damariscotta Police Officer James Dotson's report, at 9 a.m. on Oct. 6, he was called to the Coastal Market Place parking lot near the Dollar Tree and Yellowfront Grocery for a report of an argument between a man and a woman.
When Dotson spoke with the victim, a 32-year-old man, he wrote that he discovered that Orne had become upset and grabbed him while he was in his car, attempting to leave the parking lot.
According to the report, Orne had allegedly ripped the sideview mirror from the car door, then opened the door and jumped inside the car. Once inside, Orne allegedly ripped the car keys from the ignition while it was in drive and reportedly grabbed the victim's cellphone while he was attempting to call 9-1-1.
According to Chief Ron Young's report, he asked Dotson to take the victim away to get his side of the story, leaving Young to speak with Orne.
According to Young's report, Orne allegedly claimed that she and the victim had started arguing and that the victim reportedly damaged her laptop. Young wrote that Orne allegedly said that if the victim wanted to breakup with her “he should just tell her.”
Orne also allegedly said the assault occurred after the victim shoved her and she shoved back. Around this time, according to Young's report, Orne refused to give the chief any of her personal information and reportedly said she was going to leave.
Young reportedly said that based on the information he'd heard up to that point, she was not free to leave until he was able to find out what happened. At that point, according to Young's report, Orne allegedly said she was leaving and tried to push past Young, who grabbed her by the wrist and again said she wasn't free to leave.
Orne allegedly pulled away from Young, who then asked Dotson for his handcuffs and placed Orne under arrest.
While Young was trying to get Orne into the police cruiser, she allegedly slumped to the ground and had to be told to walk to the car. Young wrote that when they were near the rear doors, Orne allegedly refused to enter the vehicle and she reportedly had to be lifted into the cruiser by Young and Dotson. Young wrote that Orne allegedly refused to stop yelling and screaming while she was in the back of the cruiser.
But Orne would pick up another charge while in custody.
According to Dotson's report, he read Orne her Miranda Rights, but Orne allegedly declined to talk and instead asked to speak with a lawyer. Orne was asked while she was being processed to sign a uniform summons and complaint for the earlier alleged crimes, according to Dotson's report. Orne allegedly refused to sign the paperwork and according to Dotson's report, every time he asked Orne to sign the summons “each time Ashley would raise her voice and yell that she was not going to sign.”
Dotson reportedly told Orne that she had to sign the summons or else face a Class E crime.
Eventually, Dotson wrote “refused to sign” on the summons and charged Orne with Class E refusal to sign a criminal summons.
Orne was ultimately charged with Class C domestic violence assault (she has one conviction for the same crime from the Lincoln County District Court in 2007), Class E failure to sign the summons, Class D criminal mischief for the rearview mirror, Class D refusing to submit to arrest, and Class D obstructing a report of a crime for allegedly attempting to take the cell phone from the victim. She was arraigned and held on $500 bail at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.
Orne was ordered not to have contact with the victim and to neither possess nor use any dangerous weapons. She will have a court date at the Lincoln County Unified Court Dec. 14.
If convicted, Orne could face up to five years in prison for the Class C charge, which also has a maximum fine of $10,000. Class D and E crimes are both misdemeanors and are punishable by up to 364 days and six months in jail, respectively, and up to $2,000 fines for Class D crimes and $1,000 fines for Class E crimes.
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