Man caught on tape stealing beer charged Confronted about theft, Bangor man recognizes self

A Bangor man was caught first on a convenience store surveillance camera and then by police, who charged him with the theft of beer.

Shortly before midnight Thursday, a man dressed in a green sweat shirt and running pants and sporting a dyed-blond coif ran out of the 7-Eleven store on Ohio Street carrying a 24-pack of beer he hadn’t paid for, reported Officer Dan Herrick.

Police reviewed the store’s surveillance videotape and captured an image of the man, later identified as 19-year-old Michael T. Meteer.

Ninety minutes later, Officer James Hassard spotted two men walking along Ohio Street near Westland Avenue. Shining his cruiser’s spotlight on them, Hassard reportedly recognized one of the men from the videotape and a description that had been issued earlier.

Hassard said he patted down both men and discovered they had 11 beers between them, the same brand that had been taken from the store. Hassard brought Meteer to the police station, although the man wasn’t under arrest.

There, Herrick told Meteer that he looked familiar, that the officer thought he had seen him before. Herrick then played the videotape for Meteer.

“That’s me,” Meteer admitted, according to police. He was summoned on a charge of theft.

An employee of U-Haul in Bangor reported finding that feces and urine had been smeared and soaked in the interiors of three trucks recently.

The incident was reported early Friday afternoon and apparently occurred sometime between 10 p.m. Thursday and about noontime Friday, reported Officer Jason McAmbley. The U-Haul employee estimated the cost of the cleanup at $600, saying that each truck took five hours to clean. The employee didn’t know who could have done such a thing.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli