Bangor police arrested a 19-year-old transient in connection with several motor vehicle burglaries in the Pier and Hammond street areas early Tuesday morning.

Several other vehicle burglaries were reported in Bangor on Monday evening, including one in which Arabic money and $1,300 in U.S. currency were taken, although it is unclear whether they were related.

Sean Hanson, 19, faces at least three charges of burglary after police were called to Pier Street and found Hanson being held by a resident who had seen Hanson rummaging through his wife’s minivan and then did the same to a vehicle across the street, according to police reports.

The Pier Street man told Officers Chad Foley and Douglas Moore that he had been awakened by his son who had heard someone in their driveway.

The man confronted Hanson as the teen walked away and convinced him to wait for police to arrive.

Moore recovered a duffel bag containing a cassette player and a CD player, removed from the dashboards of two vehicles parked at the Citgo station on Hammond Street. A surveillance tape showed a person at the station at 9:17 p.m., according to a police report.

At least two other car burglaries were reported. Three women reported leaving their purses in a car while they watched a ballgame at the athletic fields on outer Union Street, near the Penobscot Job Corps campus.

The missing items included identification and money from the United Arab Emirates and $1,300 in American currency, reported Officer Larry Morrill.

In the other case, a car left on 13th Street was burglarized and a pocketbook taken.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli