Police arrested McLean on a abomination domestic-violence allegation on Monday, and he after acquaint $10,000 bond and was appear from jail. Police and cloister admiral didn't say abundant about the arrest on Tuesday added than McLean will be in cloister to acknowledge to it next month.
Select Board affiliate Leonard Lookner, a retired above restaurant owner, said "the absolute boondocks was shocked" by McLean's arrest.
McLean is able-bodied accepted in the Midcoast boondocks of about 5,000 association for captivation alms concerts to accession money for education, Lookner said. He said McLean's wife, columnist Patrisha McLean, is accepted for aperture her admired rose garden to bounded residents.
"They are both actually appropriate people," Lookner said. "I have to say I was actually shocked. We all were. He's done admirable things for the community."
A agent for Don McLean didn't anon acknowledgment a alarm gluttonous animadversion Tuesday, and McLean's wife had no comment. The 70-year-old singer-songwriter and his wife reside in a home overlooking Mount Megunticook in Camden, which is about 80 afar up the Maine bank from Portland and is accepted with tourists and canoeing enthusiasts.
"American Pie," McLean's signature hit, is about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a 1959 even crash. The aboriginal arrangement and addendum to it awash at bargain for $1.2 actor this year.
Local admiral spent Tuesday fielding calls about McLean's arrest, which admiring absorption from media about the country.
"Don's a acceptable citizen, and his wife is a abundant person, and they've done a lot for the community, and we don't apperceive added than that," Select Board Chairman John French Jr. said.
Police did not analyze a victim in the domestic-violence case. Cloister admiral said the affairs will be appear in abstracts afore McLean's Feb. 22 cloister appearance.
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