DVD theft leads to more charges in Bangor

Confronted about taking nine DVD movies from the Bangor Wal-Mart on Tuesday evening, an Old Town man struggled with a Bangor police officer and others, netting him several other charges besides the theft, according to police.

Michael S. Voye, 24, faces charges of assault, assault on a police officer and refusing to submit to arrest.

About 7 p.m., a store loss prevention officer spotted Voye with the DVDs – valued at $120 – and followed the Old Town man as he headed past the registers and out the door, according to the police report. Before exiting, Voye lifted the DVDs up in the air in an attempt to avoid setting off security alarms.

After he was apprehended and back in the store’s offices, Voye became angry and tried to push his way out, elbowing and kneeing as he went, one witness reported.

An assistant store manager said that Voye was agitated, swearing profusely and insisted that there was a mix-up.

Voye refused to turn around when Officer Myron Warner sought to handcuff him, according to the officer’s report. Voye struggled with Warner and at one point had the officer in a headlock. Warner broke free with help from store employees and Voye was subdued with pepper spray, according to the report.

Voye claimed to have been part of a previous criminal justice program and also volunteered that he was scheduled to go to the Bangor methadone clinic on Wednesday.

A manager at a Brewer convenience store is being charged with keeping $17,000 in store receipts that she was supposed to deposit.

Darla Dence, 37, faces three charges of theft in connection with the missing money from the Big Apple Convenience store on South Main Street, according to police. Brewer Detective Sgt. Perry Antone said he expects the case against Dence will go before a grand jury.

Most of the money has been recovered, all but $3,000, Antone said. Dence was arrested Friday, one day after she left the store with $10,000 in receipts, but failed to deposit. The fact money was missing was discovered by the store’s bookkeeper and reported to police.

Antone said he worked with store and corporate officials and the investigation lead to Dence, who spoke with police and confessed. The thefts apparently began in late August.

A Hammond Street man told Bangor police that he had been assaulted by his neighbor who had been walking outside his apartment late Tuesday night, muttering gibberish.

The man told Officer Brian Nichols that he had returned home about 10 p.m. and found that the light outside his apartment had been turned off. He turned it back on and later heard upstairs neighbor Robert Plummer, 52, walking past his door several times, muttering nonsense.

The man waited and later went to see if Plummer was still there. He was, and Plummer continued to mutter and allegedly began kicking the neighbor in the back and shoulder area as the neighbor walked down the stairs.

Plummer had “no comment” when Nichols asked him about what had happened earlier. When summoned on a charge of assault, Plummer signed the summons as Lord Robert Goodu.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli