PHIPPSBURG
A man reported as missing from Dover- Foxcroft made his way to Phippsburg Thursday morning, where he knocked on several doors apparently convinced he was Donald J. Trump. The man was taken by police to the hospital for evaluation.
Phippsburg Police Chief John Skroski said he got a report at 9:30 a.m. that a man repeatedly wanted to enter residences on Seacrest Circle near Small Point Road. The man was reportedly knocking on doors asking for “Ivanka.”
At one residence, where a woman was home alone with her children, he reportedly returned six or seven times.
Residents said he appeared impaired.
Skroski located the man’s car on a small tote road. Checking the plates revealed the owner was a 37-year-old man missing from Dover-Foxcroft who had been flagged as despondent and possibly suicidal. The man had left Dover-Foxcroft sometime Wednesday.
Skroski spotted the man as he walked out of the woods barefoot just after 10 a.m. and took him to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick for a psychological evaluation. Skroski said no harm was done by the man, who appeared to be having a mental health crisis.
dmoore@timesrecord.com
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