Brandon Ashby, the subject of a December 2007 Bowdoin Security alert, was arrested on Saturday by the Brunswick Police Department (BPD) on drug charges. He was charged with possession of Klonopin and paraphernalia. It was not his first encounter with the police. Lt. Shawn O'Leary said the BPD was "familiar with Mr. Ashby."
Bowdoin Security issued the alert after an "investigation identified him as a suspect in several campus thefts," according to the College's Web site. Ashby was issued a criminal trespass warning which forbids him from stepping foot on Bowdoin's campus. "If you see Ashby on or near the campus," the alert concluded, "do not approach him as he may be assaultive."