FREEPORT

Several area police departments were at a South Freeport Road home Monday night as police tried to make contact with a man inside who had been threatening suicide with a firearm.

According to a press release issued Monday night by Freeport Police Department, Freeport police were notified at around 10:30 a.m. Monday that 40-year-old Bryan Kennedy of Falmouth was threatening suicide with a firearm as reported by his father; and that Kennedy may be in Freeport. Police searched possible addressed for where he could be but determined Kennedy was not in Freeport at that time.

Police say however that at around 3 p.m., Kennedy did come to the residence of his ex-wife, Stephanie Vares, on South Freeport Road in Freeport. 

“Police responded to the residence and set up a perimeter, notifying neighbors of the situation and prohibiting motorists from being in the area,” the release states. “Several attempts were made to communicate with Kennedy and Vares to no avail.”

Police officers from Yarmouth, Freeport, and Brunswick worked together to check the immediate area and contain the situation to the residence.  

Just before 7 p.m., police say “Kennedy and Vares came out of the residence of their own volition. Kennedy submitted to police commands and was taken into protective custody.”  

He was transported to the Maine Medical Center for evaluation. No one was injured during the incident. Shortly before 7:30 p.m. dispatchers said the road had opened to traffic again.