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LIVERMORE FALLS – Two Jay men were charged Sunday after they went to a mobile home at Pine Ridge Trailer Park to retrieve a snowmobile and then refused to leave.

The men were told to be quiet by police but continued to make offensive comments with one allegedly threatening to kill the occupant, police said.

Police received a call about 8:30 p.m. from a Sandy Lane resident saying that there were two men at the residence who were fighting with him, police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said.

Dustin Towers, 19, of Jay and Scotty Couture, 18, of Jay had gone to the Livermore Falls home to get Towers’ sled, which the occupant of the trailer was repairing, Steward said.

The snowmobile was locked in the garage and the entrance hadn’t been plowed, officer Ken Bryant said.

The trailer occupant had ordered both men off the property, but they didn’t leave, Bryant said. The occupant and others in the trailer had barricaded themselves inside, and the trailer door had been damaged, he said.

Bryant said he was inside the cruiser writing summonses for both men to charge them each with criminal trespass and criminal mischief and the men continued to be loud enough with their comments to the man in the trailer that neighbors three doors down came out to see what was going on.

At one point, Bryant said, he heard Couture threaten to kill the occupant.

Bryant said he got out of the cruiser and told the men that he had had enough and to shut their mouths but they continued on.

They both became aggressive toward him, Bryant said, and then Couture jumped in a vehicle, and when Bryant told him he was going to be arrested, Couture started fighting with him.

Bryant said he used cayenne pepper spray on Couture to subdue him and when Towers saw that he started to obey police orders.

Besides the summons for the initial charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespassing the men were charged with, Couture was arrested on a charge of terrorizing and Towers was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, Bryant said.

The two were bailed from the police station on personal recognizance and are scheduled to appear June 13 at 8th District Court in Lewiston.

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