Calais pub stabbing under investigation

Scooter's Pub, a bar on the corner of Maine and North Street in Calais was the scene of an early Wednesday morning stabbing. Maine State Police, assisted by Calais Police Department, are investigating the stabbing at the pub that was reported just after midnight Wednesday. Sean Scribner, 23, was in Calais Regional Hospital Wednesday morning with non life-threatening injuries. (Photo courtesy of Tom McLaughlin)

By Sharon Kiley Mack, BDN Staff

Posted Oct. 28, 2009, at 11:32 a.m.

CALAIS, Maine — The Maine State Police Criminal Investigation Division III is investigating a stabbing incident outside Scooter’s Pub in downtown Calais.

Just after midnight Wednesday, Sgt. Claude Chabre of the Calais Police Department encountered a man who turned out to be Jeffrey Gagner, 33, in a municipal parking lot bleeding severely from a head injury.

Chabre determined that Gagner had been in a fight at Scooter’s, a bar on North Street, and learned that another man involved in the fight, Sean Scribner, 23, had been stabbed.

The Calais Police Department called CID for assistance.

According to a statement released by Maine State Police Detective Sgt. John Cote, a verbal argument began inside the bar between Gagner, Scribner, Albert Harvey, 55, and Michael Chalout, 27. Cote did not provide hometowns for the men involved.

Cote said the bar’s owner ordered the men to take their differences outside and the men left the bar. Once outside, Cote said, the argument escalated and Scribner was stabbed. The parties separated after the stabbing.

Scribner then re-entered the bar seeking assistance, and a patron took him by private vehicle to Calais Regional Hospital where he remained Wednesday with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Gagner was treated for his head wound at CRH and released later Wednesday.

At first light Wednesday, pools of blood were visible in several locations on the sidewalk on North Street, extending from the pub’s entrance to a neighboring restaurant.

Cote and CID Detectives Micah Perkins and Elmer Farrin were on scene in Calais all morning, and Cote said the investigation was to continue throughout the day.

“Detectives are still working to determine the exact sequence of events,” Cote said in the statement. “Evidence, including the knife used in the stabbing, has been recovered. Investigation will continue to determine the role of each of the parties and whether criminal charges are appropriate.”

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