BANGOR, Maine — Bangor police responded to a home on Hancock Street Thursday, resulting in five people being arrested on outstanding warrants.
A portion of Hancock Street was closed in the area of East Summer Street from about 10:30 a.m. to about noon, Sgt. Jason McAmbley with the Bangor Police Department told NEWS CENTER Maine.
McAmbley said police initially responded to a report of a person flashing a gun at a person in a house in the 300 block of Hancock Street. When police arrived, they took about 10 people out of the house and arrested five of them on outstanding warrants, McAmbley said.
The people who were arrested were taken to the Penobscot County Jail, according to McAmbley. He said one person who had a warrant out for their arrest was not taken to jail but rather to a local hospital because they required medical treatment.
"Based on the information derived from [the people who were arrested], there was not enough to substantiate us being at the scene any longer or to go through the process of getting a warrant to search the house," McAmbley said around noon. "It was, as one officer called it, a kernel of truth in a bucket of lies, so we're leaving."
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