11-year-old Veazie boy charged with two felonies

An 11-year-old faces several charges, including two felonies, after Veazie police linked him to daytime break-ins at three vacant mobile homes this week.

In one of the homes, the boy kicked or punched a half-dozen holes in the walls, ripped off smoke detectors and strewed toilet paper and baking soda around, police said. Detective Andrew Whitehouse estimated damage to the three homes at Silver’s Trailer Park at $3,000 to $4,000.

The 11-year-old, whose name was not being released because he is a juvenile, is being charged with burglary and aggravated criminal mischief, both felonies; theft; and two counts of criminal trespass. The boy admitted to breaking into the homes Sunday, Aug. 19, although the incident wasn’t discovered until Thursday morning when a maintenance worker found that two of the homes had been entered. The third break-in was discovered Friday as part of Whitehouse’s investigation into the burglaries.

All three break-ins were near the boy’s own trailer home, Whitehouse said.

The boy gained entry by pushing in windows, although in one case he tried to pry open a door and when that failed he stood on a cinder block and pushed open a side window, the detective said.

Afterward, the boy had been bragging about what he had done, showed other youths the smoke detectors he had torn off and invited the youths inside to see the damage, Whitehouse said. They declined.

The smoke detectors and curtain rods were recovered later where he had dumped them in the woods nearby.

A Kenduskeag man whose license was suspended for a previous drunken driving conviction was charged early Thursday morning with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

The man was seen turning right onto the Odlin Road about 1 a.m., even though his car was in the straight-through lane, not in the turning lane, and the turning lane had a red traffic light.

Bangor police Officer Shawn Green reported smelling alcohol coming from the white station wagon and that the driver’s eyes were bloodshot and glassy. The driver, Jeffery Sands, 33, admitted to drinking four beers that night and told Green his license had been suspended for OUI.

According to the police report, Sands was convicted for OUI in September 2000 and again in February of this year and that his license already was suspended with another suspension pending.

Green charged Sands with operating a motor vehicle after license revocation and for OUI. Sands’ blood-alcohol content registered 0.20 percent, or 21/2 times the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli