The Waldo County Sheriff’s Office used Maine’s yellow flag law to confiscate numerous guns from a man on 700 Acre Island near Islesboro earlier this week, according to a press release.
The man was also taken into custody on Monday for a medical evaluation after police initially received a report that he had received a boat ride to the island and walked off into some woods while wearing a ballistic vest and possibly carrying a concealed firearm.
Police did not share additional information about what threat the man was suspected to pose to himself or others, which is a necessary condition for police to use the yellow flag law to seize guns.
The man, who has not been criminally charged, was initially reported to police after he’d gotten the boat ride from the Lincolnville Ferry Terminal. More information wasn’t available about the nature of that boat ride.
The sheriff’s office, working with the U.S. Coast Guard, eventually located the man on an outboard-powered skiff near the north end of the island. He was not wearing a ballistic vest and cooperated with being taken to a medical facility for evaluation and treatment, police said.
After the yellow flag law was invoked, citizens helped police to locate “numerous firearms” on the island, according to the release. The investigation is ongoing.
