A man was arrested Saturday night after authorities said he trespassed at a mobile home in Chesterville, sparking a 10-hour standoff with police as he holed up inside with a pellet gun and cross bow.
The man, Vance Billings, 41, of Carthage, was charged with aggravated criminal trespass and mischief, and violating conditions of bail, according to a news release Sunday morning from Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.
Billings surrendered to a Maine State Police tactical team Saturday night following the standoff, which McCausland said came after Billings refused the leave the mobile home of another man whom he had assaulted earlier in the day. The man had left the Horseshoe Pond Road home earlier and was treated and released from an unidentified hospital, McCausland said.
During the 10-hour standoff, Billings refused to talk with police during the day and was armed with a high power pellet gun and a cross bow inside the home.
Following his arrest, Billings was taken to the Franklin County Jail in Farmington.