Island residents appear to block driveway with felled tree to force quarantine

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/03/28/island-residents-appear-to-block-driveway-with-felled-tree-to-force-quarantine/

VINALHAVEN — A report of several armed people cutting down a tree and blocking a driveway to force someone to quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak is under investigation by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.

The sheriff’s office reported that shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday, a person contacted the U.S. Coast Guard asking for assistance in the area of Cripple Creek Road. The caller said several people with guns had cut down a tree, and were telling other people to stay quarantined.

Someone with a scanner heard the report made to the Coast Guard and called the Knox Regional Communications Center.

Deputies, along with members of the Maine Marine Patrol and a Coast Guard boarding party, made contact with the complainant and discovered that a tree had been cut down and dragged into a driveway to block access to the road.

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