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Brothers Arrested for OUI in Bangor After Admitting to Police They Both Drove Same Car While Drunk

Edward TomicBy Edward TomicApril 10, 2025Updated:April 10, 202518 Comments2 Mins Read2K Views
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Two brothers are both facing criminal charges for operating under the influence (OUI) after police say they admitted to driving the same car while drunk.

Bangor Police say they received a report of a car driving erratically on outer Broadway at around 9 p.m. on Wednesday.

Witnesses told police that they had observed the vehicle pull over and the man who had been driving moved to the passenger seat, while the man in the passenger seat moved to the driver’s seat.

Police located the two men, identified as brothers Manoach Bizumuremyi, 27, and Muhoza Bizumuremyi, 28, while they were standing outside of the vehicle in a parking lot.

โ€œSurprisingly, both admitted they had been driving the car, admitted to swapping drivers, and both admitted they shouldnโ€™t have been driving the car,โ€ Bangor Police said in a Thursday press release.

Both brothers failed field sobriety tests and were arrested for OUI.

According to police, the younger brother, Manoach Bizumuremyi, had been driving most of the trip and had a blood alcohol level of 0.23%, while Muhoza Bizumuremyi had a blood alcohol level of 0.17%.

The legal limit in Maine for blood alcohol content for driving is 0.08%.

Manoach Bizumuremyi is charged with Class D OUI, and is being held at the Penobscot County Jail on $1,000 bail.

Manoach Bizumuremyi, 27 | Source: Penobscot County Jail

The older brother, Muhoza Bizumeremyi, has one previous offense within the past 10 years and was also charged with Class D OUI, and was held on $350 bail.

Muhoza Bizumeremyi, 28 | Source: Penobscot County Jail

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Edward Tomic is a reporter for The Maine Wire based in Southern Maine. He grew up near Boston, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Boston University. He can be reached at [email protected]

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billyjoebob
billyjoebob
1 year ago

Local Mainers, lol.

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Louise Woods
Louise Woods
1 year ago

These guys will keep this up until they kill or maim someone .
Janet Mills wants them to invite their aunts , uncles , and cousins to come to Maine too.
She wants thes people to collect welfare and learn to read just enough to vote .

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
1 year ago

How long have Razzdiz one and Razzdiz two been living off of the Maine tax payers, or do they both have 40 hour a week jobs?

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Sam Brady
Sam Brady
1 year ago

Typical 2G Illegal aliens … Culturally Enriching Maine one DUI at a time ….

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Joel
Joel
1 year ago

The Maine experimentโ€ฆโ€ฆLetโ€™s start with a great place to live with a surplus budget. Then, letโ€™s let have half of MA and CT move here and elect a liberal government. Then those liberal politicians say hey, why donโ€™t we import a shitload of people from war torn countries that canโ€™t speak our language and have zero job skills. So how did this experiment work? Whelp, the state is financially unstable, half the state has no representation and these two assholes are representative of our โ€œNew Mainersโ€ future. Hmmmmโ€ฆ..๐Ÿค”

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The Letter โ€œNโ€
The Letter โ€œNโ€
1 year ago

I think if Bangor took a page out of the Lewiston playbook and had a whole street of halal variety stores selling Lyca Mobile international cell phone minutes, this could have been avoided.

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Tim Fortin
Tim Fortin
1 year ago

They should be deported on the grounds of stupidity alone.

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Urpoolboy59
Urpoolboy59
1 year ago

Ahhh….cant’cha just smell the diversity in the air!! Umm…err…wait a sec…..yep, that’s definitely Goat ๐Ÿ we’re smell’in

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Dorotea
Dorotea
1 year ago

Wait a minute, the one feral has already a DUI and his bail is only 350? And the other only 1000? While real Americans get bail over 3000 at least plus lose their license immediately and car is impounded.

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Chris
Chris
1 year ago

Maine the way life should be!

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getting played
getting played
1 year ago

so the guy with a previous offense has a lower bail?? repaet offenders get a discount i guess… can find in the article where it mentioned if they even had a license…. or if they are citizens….

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Ray Emery
Ray Emery
1 year ago

I remember their parents from Wytopitlock.. I think it was.

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mainer
mainer
1 year ago

Queen Janet must be so proud! New democrat voters.

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Boc Choy
Boc Choy
1 year ago

I don’t know, these guys are either very dumb or very smart. With the dismal performance of the prosecutors office I think a good defense lawyer (supplied by mills) could twist this case into a knot. Who was driving at the time of the offence? We’ll wait to see what happens.

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DamDoc
DamDoc
1 year ago

Two Bangor men.

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Norman Linnell
Norman Linnell
1 year ago

How do we go about forwarding โ€œthe Maine wire.comโ€ articles to ICE ?

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Conservative
Conservative
1 year ago

Calling ICE!!!!
Two more to be deported!!!! They know where they are so easy to go pick them up and get them out of the USA! They are a DANGER to our communities… How often have they driven under the influence???? It only takes once to KILL someone!
Mills had better get these ILLEGALS out of here asap

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Bub
Bub
1 year ago

Immigration status please?

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