Burglar gets away with $2,640 in goods from car break-ins

Bangor police are looking for the man suspected of breaking into seven motor vehicles near Bangor Mall Boulevard on Thursday and pilfering everything from a $5 pair of sunglasses to a $500 snowboard and getting away in a car stolen from New York.

Bangor police Detective Clifford Worcester was called to Pizzeria Uno at about 4 p.m. after a report of a car burglary. He subsequently found there were seven vehicles involved, at least one of them outside the Shop ‘n Save supermarket. Total value of the stolen items was estimated at $2,640.

An employee of Pizzeria Uno told Worcester he saw a suspicious man outside in the parking lot and then noticed a fellow employee’s car had had a window smashed. The employee ran back inside to write down the license plate of the red car and got into his own vehicle to try to follow the man who had driven off.

The employee described the man as being between 6 feet and 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 230 to 250 pounds. He was white with short, dark hair and was wearing faded jeans and a black jacket.

The description of the man, car and license plate matched one also provided by a Hermon woman who was in the parking lot of the Shop ‘n Save when she saw a man sitting in a car several spaces from her. Next to him was a car with a broken window.

She drove away but in her rearview mirror saw the man reaching inside the other car through the broken window. She drove around to get a better look at him, but he drove off. She told Worcester that she tried to follow him, but lost the man in traffic after about 10 minutes.

The license plate number belonged to a red 1988 Pontiac Bonneville, reportedly stolen Jan. 14 from West Hampton Beach in New York, Worcester learned.

Inside one of the cars that had been broken into, Worcester found blood left behind on a napkin. The car’s owner said that the napkin left on the center console didn’t have blood on it when she left it.

An Old Town woman reported to police this week that even after she kicked her boyfriend out of her apartment for assaulting her, he kept showing up there and at her job and that she is afraid.

Arriving on Indian Island at about 7 p.m. to meet with the woman at her place of work, Old Town police Officer Bobby Pelletier found that the woman’s boyfriend had been there earlier but had left. The 37-year-old woman was visibly upset and told police that early Monday morning 38-year-old Alan Gregory Francis choked her until she couldn’t breathe.

The incident occurred, she said, after they and family members had watched the Super Bowl at her Stillwater Avenue apartment and she had gone to bed. At about 2 a.m., Francis woke her up wanting sex.

When she refused, Francis became angry and began throwing things around the room and making noise to keep her awake. He jumped on the bed and she struggled with him as he began ripping off her clothes and choking her when she tried to get up to go to another room, according to the police report.

She left the room with help from her 18-year-old son who had come in to find out what the commotion was all about. The woman moved to another bedroom and tried to go to asleep again, when the bedroom door was flung open and Francis began to attack her son.

The woman said she and Francis’ 17-year-old niece were thrown about the room as they tried to break up the fight.

Francis eventually passed out in another room, and late Monday morning when he awoke the woman told him to leave. She told Pelletier that Francis returned several times to pick up belongings and also has showed up at her place of work.

Francis was located at a residence on the island and claimed he had only grabbed the woman’s wrist and pulled a ring off her finger and threw it across the room. Francis was charged with domestic assault.

Bangor police were called to Main Street in front of The Tavern on Thursday afternoon where a cabdriver pointed out a man who he said had threatened to hit him with an object if he didn’t take him where he wanted to go.

The cabdriver ordered the man out of his cab and told Officer George Spencer that the man kept taunting him and yelling at him from the sidewalk as the driver waited outside the Bangor bar for another fare. The man, identified as Michael G. Nelson, continued his taunts with the police present, prompting warnings by police.

Spencer also patted down Nelson and found he was carrying a rock inside a sock that had been tied up.

Nelson wanted the sock back and Spencer gave it to him, sans rock. That upset Nelson who threw the disarmed sock to the ground. Not taking it lightly, Spencer warned Nelson to pick up the sock or be charged with littering.

Throwing caution to the wind, Nelson swore at the officer and told Spencer to arrest him before returning to his tirade against the cabdriver. Despite more warnings, Nelson continued his commotion and Spencer arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.

Nelson also was charged with littering, with Spencer noting that Nelson had failed to pick up his sock.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli