Portland Police announced Tuesday that a 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly displaying a handgun and threatening to shoot customers inside a fried chicken restaurant.
According to police, at about 1:50 a.m. on Saturday, the Portland Regional Communications Center received a 911 call for a report of a male threatening customers with a handgun at 408 Forest Avenue, Crown Fried Chicken.
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Police say that by the time officers arrived at the restaurant, the suspect had fled.
Witnesses told police that the suspect had displayed a handgun that was in his waistband while threatening to shoot people inside the restaurant, before being removed by two people that had entered the restaurant with him.
Officers also discovered a bullet casing in the restaurant’s parking lot, substantiating a report that a firearm had been discharged at the scene.
Portland Police detectives identified the suspect as 25-year-old Anthony Lobor, and were able to locate him on Monday at 42 Kellogg Street in Portland.
Police say that due to several small children being present at the location, it was deemed too dangerous to apprehend him.
However, at about 5 p.m. on Monday, the Portland Police surveillance team attempted to take him into custody, at which point Lobor allegedly fled on foot.
After a brief foot chase, Lobor was arrested and charged with Criminal Threatening with a Dangerous Weapon, Threatening Display of or Possession of a Concealed Weapon and Violation of Conditions of Release.
A search of the 42 Kellogg St. residence resulted in the seizure of multiple handguns, an apparent fully automatic rifle, firearm components, drugs, cash and evidence of drug trafficking.
Anthony Lobor is from a family of Sudanese refugees who came to Portland in 2004, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Lobor’s older brother, Patrick Lobor, died in 2018 of a stab wound after crashing his car on Brighton Avenue in Portland. Police said at the time that they believed there was no foul play in Patrick Lobor’s death, which was ruled a suicide by Maine’s Medical Examiner’s Office.
Another brother in the family, Richard Lobor, was murdered at age 23 in November 2014 at an apartment complex in Portland.
Richard Lobor’s murderer, Abdirahman Huessin Haji-Hassan, fled from the state to Minneapolis following the incident, where he was arrested a month later. He was sentenced in 2017 to 39 years in prison.
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This is why I don’t know anyone in Maine who doesn’t always carry.
What a super family history for this great ADDITION to Maine. I’m sure they’ve created at least another ten kids just like the gang banger brothers. We are going to need a bigger prison.
Well, the good news is the Lobor men aren’t blessed with longevity.
Hasn’t illegal immigration brought Maine some fine new residents.
Emmaline has said what I have been saying for years . Maine needs to build more prisons …..more prisons ….not jails ….prisons .
That will spur the economy with construction jobs and then with long term jobs for administrators and guards. If New York can’t jail them they can send them here along with a huge check for their “ room and board “ …
A true growth industry that will pay us back
Colorado has a bunch of them .
To hell with spending a million bucks for a border station in Coburn Gore ….
To hell with building apartment complexes in Brunswick for Somalis …..
Build some damn prisons ….clean up the streets ….create new employments for true Mainers …do the right thing .
Vote out the enemy in November !
What we need is politicians who have the intestinal fortitude to put a stop to the illegal invasion and when these illegals are caught to send them back to the third world hellholes they came from. Now we have to pay for this assholes room and board. We most likely already were as I’m sure he and his outstanding family were all on welfare. The decline of the empire continues.
…huh, one of Sudan’s best and brightest trying to make it in Amerika!
We are probably paying for their apartment. Keep up the great work Janet and Shenna.
Remember, Mills wants another 75,000 of these delightful “New Mainers”.
Portland is the cesspool of Maine.
All the sh!t in Maine flows there!
Being back mental asylums and build More prisons