DIXFIELD — A man with a long history of violence in Western Maine was arrested by Dixfield police on Tuesday.

Guner Vicelich, 23, of Rockland, was arrested by Chief Richard A. Pickett at Rumford District Court on a warrant stemming from three separate incidents in Dixfield, Pickett said.

Vicelich was charged with three counts of violation of a protection order, two counts of domestic violence terrorizing, and one count of domestic violence stalking, Pickett said.

Sgt. Jeffery Howe received a report Dec. 26 that Vicelich was repeatedly calling and sending threatening text messages to a woman who resides in Dixfield, Pickett said. The woman had a restraining order against Vicelich which said he was not to contact her. Howe attempted to locate Vicelich but was unsuccessful, Pickett said.

Vicelich also contacted the woman on Dec. 26 and again on Dec. 31, he said.

“We had been trying to have him come talk with us and also tried finding his location, but each time we were unable to,” Pickett said.

After Howe investigated the three incidents and researched Vicelich’s history with the woman, he obtained an arrest warrant from the district attorney on Monday, Pickett said. He also said that the district attorney added the charges of domestic violence terrorizing after learning the details of the case.

On Tuesday, Pickett said he received a tip that Vicelich would be at the Rumford District Court for a hearing on the restraining order. He said with assistance from the security officers in the courtroom he was able to arrest Vicelich and transport him to the Oxford County Jail in Paris.

Vicelich has a lengthy criminal record that includes convictions of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, burglary, disorderly conduct, unlawful furnishing schedule drugs, unlawful possession of scheduled narcotics and marijuana, and violating a protection-from-abuse-order, according to published court logs in the Sun Journal.

Vicelich was unable to post $1,500 bail and remained at the jail Wednesday night, a jail official said.

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