A Portland woman who seemed headed to the hospital with a possible drug overdose Sunday morning instead faces charges of disorderly conduct.

The Bangor Police Department sent three officers to the Econo Lodge – Brad Hanson, Keith Mercier and Sgt. Bob Bishop – after a desk clerk reported a disturbance in one of the motel rooms.

Police spoke in the lobby with a Scarborough man who said his torn shirt and his girlfriend caused the marks on his body.

While Bishop interviewed the man, Hanson and Mercier went to the room and knocked on the door. When the door opened, they entered to find Heather B. Walker, 21, in bed covered up and sobbing. The floor was strewn with antidepressant pills and beer cans.

Concerned that Walker, who appeared intoxicated, may have taken a quantity of pills, the police said, they summoned an ambulance. Paramedics checked Walker and the number of pills remaining, and determined she was probably under the influence of alcohol only.

Walker’s boyfriend declined to press charges, so police decided to separate the pair for the night. The boyfriend went to another room in the motel to stay with his brother.

Police waited in the hallway for a period of time to make sure things had settled down. A short while later, they reported, Walker called her boyfriend on the telephone in the other room and began screaming obscenities to the point that her yelling could be easily heard up and down the hall.

Walker was charged with disorderly conduct.

A Bangor man didn’t convince local police he was a former policeman himself when he refused to take an Intoxilyzer test Friday.

Vince St. John, 33, was stopped for driving a vehicle with one headlight out Friday near the intersection of State Street and Parkview Avenue.

Officer Catherine Rumsey reported that St. John seemed dazed as he responded slowly to requests for registration and insurance certificates. He also seemed confused during instructions for field sobriety tests, and emitted an odor of alcohol while burping.

He was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor. St. John also refused to sign his summons, and declined to say where he had supposedly served as a police officer.

An employee of the Bangor Mall was fired last week and charged with employee theft of gift certificates from an account intended for charity organizations.

Catherine Roach, 30, of Bangor allegedly admitted taking the certificates and cashing them at a grocery store, mall representative Bruce Soper and an official of the mall’s corporate headquarters told Bangor police Officer Tyler Leighton.

Mall staff said that a corporate accountant would review records to make sure the mall had accurate information about its losses.

The person who threw two rocks through the storefront window of Play It Again Sports on Stillwater Avenue in Bangor apparently wanted just one thing.

The only item missing, a store employee told Bangor police Officer Tyler Leighton on Saturday, was a $500 skateboard on display in the window. Nothing else appeared to have been touched.

The incident must have occurred between closing time Friday and opening time Saturday morning, the employee said.

A Seventh Street home in Bangor was burglarized Friday while the owners were at work.

One of the owners told Bangor police Officer Douglas Moore that cash and jewelry worth $2,900 were missing.

The home has burglar alarms, but they were not set and the back door was unlocked.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Roxanne Moore Saucier