Police: Acton man rammed truck into car with plow blade raised

John Charron (Alfred Jail photo)

The victim's car took extensive damage from the plow blade. (YCSO photo)

ACTON, Maine - A long-simmering neighbor feud boiled over Tuesday night in Acton ending with one man arrested for allegedly ramming his blade-up plow truck into another vehicle injuring its occupants.

York County Sheriff's deputies first got the call around 11 p.m. for a disturbance in the 200 block of Buzzell Road. The caller reported they heard cars peeling out, yelling, and people threatening each other.

At the same time, another call was received that reported a domestic disturbance at a residence on Lake Shores Road. Deputies soon determined that the Buzzell Road and Lake Shores Road calls were related.

When they arrived on scene deputies learned that a neighbor feud had boiled over and John Charron, 53, of Acton, had driven his plow truck to the end of his neighbor's driveway and was squealing his tires and yelling threats to the neighbors.

The neighbor, who had a friend visiting, got into the friend's vehicle that was parked in the driveway. According to the victims, Charron then drove at them with his plow raised and struck the victim's vehicle with the plow blade going over the hood. The impact caused both airbags to deploy. The victims suffered bumps and bruising but did not require hospitalization.

Deputy Rachel Horning and other deputies arrested Charron and charged him with aggravated reckless conduct and criminal threatening. Bail was set at $3,000 cash.

Charron posted the bail Wednesday and is now set to appear in Alfred Superior Court next month.