Police arrest two men on burglary charges

A Glenburn man who eluded Penobscot County Sheriff’s detectives for nearly a month was arrested by Bangor police Friday evening and is being held without bail in Penobscot County Jail.

Kirk Dephilippo, 28, of the Lake View Road in Glenburn, was arrested on three warrants, including one charging him with parole violations for the burglary of the home of a Glenburn couple in mid August.

A second man, George Walker, 21, of 119 Falvey St., Bangor, was arrested earlier this week and also faces a burglary charge in conjunction with the incident at the home of Daniel McLeod, on Route 221 in Glenburn.

Both men were also wanted on attempted burglary charges for an attempted break-in at Roger’s Market in Hudson, located about three miles from the McLeod home. This incident occured the same weekend both men are believed to have burglarized and vandalized the McLeod residence.

Dephilippo remains in jail with a parole hold on his bail and is scheduled to appear in 3rd District Court Monday morning. Walker appeared in 3rd District Court Friday where his case was held over for hearing on Sept. 25. Walker was released Thursday on $5,000 bail.

Bangor Patrolmen Tom Reagan and Jeff Millard arrested Dephilippo after the car Dephilippo was in was stopped on Summer Street around 6 p.m. for an expired inspection sticker. Millard said that he recognized Dephilippo and had known that there were three outstanding warrants for his arrest. Walker was arrested by Sheriff’s Det. Glenn Ross on Wednesday at Walker’s home.

Ross said Dephilippo remained in the area since the Aug. 11-12 incidents but he moved around at night and would sleep in a different place at night, eluding detectives.

“But he always knew we were right behind him,” Ross said Friday night.

Ironically, Sheriff’s officers had Dephilippo and Walker shortly after the McLeod burglary, but the incident had not been reported then. Both men and a third person had been stopped near Roger’s Market late on Saturday Aug. 11 after the store’s alarm went off.

The following Monday, the day the McLeod burglary was reported, an inventory of the seized property from the car Dephilippo and Walker had been in uncovered a part of a scanner and food items from the McLeod’s home.

Ross estimated that between $5,000 to $10,000 of damage was done to the McLeod’s home and property. Very little of what was stolen, including a lot of jewelry, was recovered, he said.