A domestic situation involving an armed man on Monday sparked a shelter-in-place order in Bowdoinham from the Sagadahoc County Emergency Management Agency.
At around 9:22 a.m., deputies received a call reporting a “domestic incident” involving a potentially armed man threatening suicide at 363 Fisher Road in Bowdoinham.
Deputies and officers from the Maine State Police responded to the scene and discovered that the armed man had allegedly left in a vehicle in an unknown direction.
That information prompted a shelter-in-place order for the Fisher Road area, which was issued at 10:10 a.m. and lifted just 30 minutes later.
The man was located and taken into protective custody without incident and transported to a local hospital. He received a mental health evaluation followed by a weapons restriction order under Maine’s ‘Yellow Flag’ law, preventing him from owning firearms.
The man was not arrested and does not face any criminal charges.
