After obtaining a search warrant, officials found 120 pounds of dynamite.
PARIS – A Paris man charged with two counts of terrorizing in connection with a six-hour standoff with police was released Tuesday on $1,000 cash bail.
Joseph Ellingwood, 57, was arrested early Sunday morning after police lobbed three canisters of tear gas into his Stock Farm Road home to get him out. Paris police officer Michael Dailey said Ellingwood also faces a civil violation of creating a police standoff.
According to Dailey, the Maine State Police Tactical Team made a sweep of the home after the arrest to insure no one else was there.
During their sweep they found chemicals and what appeared to be bomb-making materials.
After obtaining a search warrant, police, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Maine State Police Bomb Squad searched Ellingwood’s house and found 120 pounds of dynamite.
Dailey said they also found chemicals, hollowed out carbon dioxide cartridges and other materials that could be used in making a bomb.
Dailey said police were originally called late Saturday evening to Ellingwood’s home because he allegedly threatened his 17-year-old roommate with a gun. She called from a neighbor’s house.
Dailey, fellow Paris officer Alan Coffin and Oxford County Sheriff’s deputy Brian Landis answered the call.
Dailey said the officers approached the door and identified themselves.
Officer Alan Coffin reported that Ellingwood got up off the coach and raised the rifle to about shoulder height. He walked toward the window where Coffin was standing and then swung toward the door.
“We kept telling him we were police,” Dailey said. “When he headed toward the door we took cover.”
The MSP Tactical Unit was called and Dailey said although they frequently told Ellingwood through a loudspeaker to come out, there was no communication between the parties.
Getting no response, Dailey said troopers fired the tear gas about 5:30 a.m.
Dailey said after Ellingwood was arrested he told officers that he never heard them because he had the television on and it was apparently too loud.
jsmedley@sunjournal.com
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