The Plot Thickens...

This is a follow up article to THIS POST (thanks to the anonymous reader who posted the link):

GUILFORD: TEEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT OVER MUSEUM
By Diana Bowley

Saturday, June 28, 2008 - Bangor Daily News

GUILFORD, Maine - A second person was charged this week in connection with an alleged assault that occurred last month after a heated Guilford Historical Society meeting.

Police charged Zarvin Shaffer, 38, last month for assault and this week they charged a teenager for assault. Both individuals are expected to make their initial court appearance on July 28 in 13th District Court.

The alleged assault came after a "pretty heated" meeting during which members questioned society president Robert Shaffer about his release of original photographs that were one of a kind, according to Investigator Guy Dow of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department.

As members were leaving last month’s meeting, Zarvin Shaffer allegedly struck member Al Hunt in the jaw with his fist, and the teenager allegedly pulled the hair of Hunt’s wife, according to Dow. Dow said there were witnesses to the assault.

Shaffer claimed Hunt had intentionally bumped into him as they left the museum where the meeting was held, Dow said. After Hunt was slugged, Dow said Hunt’s wife, Laurel Hunt, 44, started yelling and when she did so, the teenager allegedly pulled her hair, he said. The teenager told police he was trying to protect himself.

Dow said Laurel Hunt held up a folded canvas chair that she carried to the meetings to protect herself during the alleged assault.

The disagreement among members was because Robert Shaffer, who is Zarvin Shaffer’s father, had removed some old photographs of the town from the museum for display in a local restaurant, according to Dow. He said his department received a call reporting that some historical society members were troubled that the donated original photographs had left the museum. Dow said the photographs have since been returned to the museum, but the disagreement apparently continued to smolder.

About 50 members attended a meeting earlier this week and voted a new slate of officers as follows: Sieferd "Stubby" Schultz, president; Brian Woodworth, vice president; Cindy Woodworth, secretary; and Laurel Hunt, treasurer.

Schultz said members voted earlier to bar Zarvin Shaffer and the teenager from the historical society meetings and the museum.