A Standish man was arrested on Monday on a charge of kidnapping and violation of bail after holding his wife at her Chadbourne Road residence against her will with a butcher knife and a club.
According to police reports, Charles Teague, 35, and a friend took Teague’s wife to a hotel in Portland and prevented her from leaving or phoning the police. He was out on bail and a condition of his release was that he would not make contact with her.
On Sunday evening, reports say the victim talked the two men into letting her return to her residence in Standish. On Monday morning she was able to phone her mother, who in turn phoned the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department that handles all police calls in Standish.
At 8:30 a.m., Deputy Paul Pettengill responded and spoke with the wife while she was on her porch and her husband was still inside and Pettengill talked her into his cruiser.
The two men inside did not answer numerous phone calls. Crisis negotiator Sgt. Paul Thorpe was able to call Teague to a window using a loudspeaker and convinced him to exit the house peacefully.
The butcher knife and a club, described as a baseball bat, were found inside the residence. The other man was not charged with a crime.
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