An Oregon man was taken to a Bangor hospital after he was denied access to a flight at Bangor International Airport on Saturday, police said.

The 70-year-old man had been attempting to board American Airlines Flight 4643 when he was randomly selected to be searched, Bangor police Sgt. Mark Hathaway said. When the security technician asked the man to open his belt for inspection because the belt buckle set off security instruments, the man lowered his pants to his ankles.

The Oregon man was removed from the security area and told investigators that he had been wrong in dropping his pants in public, but “explained that he was frustrated with being selected to be checked at each screening point,” Hathaway said. Despite the apology, the man was told by an American Eagle supervisor that he could not board the plane.

After being told that he would need to find another flight, the man slid to the floor against the American Eagle counter and complained of pain in his left arm and took a pill, presumed to be heart medication, before he was taken to St. Joseph Hospital for evaluation, Hathaway said. The man told officials that he had a history of heart trouble and “suggested that he did not want to die before returning home.”

The man later left Bangor on a different flight, Bangor police Lt. Steve Hunt said. No charges were filed.

Police on Sunday were investigating the theft of communication equipment from a plane at Bangor International Airport.

Employees at Bangor General Aviation contacted police after a thief cut a wire on the plane and removed a funnel used to increase the range of the plane’s radios, Bangor police Officer Shawn Green said. The $5 funnel was replaced by the company but employees wanted to make sure the theft was on record with police.

The wire had been cut and the funnel removed recently, Green said.

Wet roads and speed are believed to be factors in an early morning accident Sunday that sent a Kenduskeag man to the hospital after he rolled his vehicle, officials said.

Kevin Travis, 28, had been driving his 1998 Pontiac Firebird on Clark Road in Kenduskeag when he lost control near the Town House Road intersection. The car ran into a ditch and rolled, said Deputy Joe Kennedy of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department. The vehicle came to rest on its side against some trees.

Travis was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and released, officials said. He had suffered facial lacerations and complained of shoulder pain.

The accident occurred about a mile from Travis’ home, and two of his friends found him as they were passing by, Kennedy said. It was not known whether he was wearing a seat belt.

Police did not find any skid marks to indicate that Travis had attempted to stop.

They had not determined whether charges would be filed, Kennedy said.

A cell phone and more than $500 in change were taken from a Greenbush man’s truck Friday, police said.

The man had rolled change, mostly quarters, that he had saved at home. He had left the change in a container in the truck, Bangor police Officer Wade Betters said. The man had parked his truck behind Russell’s Entertainment Complex on the Odlin Road on Friday morning, which is when he believed the items were taken.

The man told police he had lost a set of keys to the 2001 Ford Ranger a few days earlier and believed that a thief had found the keys and somehow found and entered the locked truck, Betters said. Police were still investigating.

Police were looking for a golfer who has continually landed shots into the back yard of a Maple Street woman’s home, police said.

On Friday, the mysterious golfer launched an orange golf ball through the rear window of the woman’s 1998 GMC truck, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said. The woman told police she has found numerous golf balls in her yard before, but did not know whom the culprit was.

Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $800, Tall said.

A baseball bat is believed to be the weapon used in an act of vandalism against a car on Sixth Street on Sunday morning, police said.

The windshield of a 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix was smashed with what police believe to be a baseball bat sometime between 1 and 10 a.m. Sunday, Bangor police Officer Robert Hutchings said. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $300.

Three tires on a Bangor woman’s Chevy Corsica were slashed Saturday morning on Rogers Street, officials said.

Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said police were still investigating Sunday night.

Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $100, Tall said.

Police were searching for a woman who stole a Glenburn woman’s pocketbook, returned it, then ran off, police said.

The Glenburn woman had been shopping at Shop ‘n Save on Broadway when an unidentified woman grabbed her purse from her cart and attempted to walk away with it, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said. The owner of the purse confronted the woman, who first attempted to ignore the comments aimed at her, then returned the purse when confronted in the doorway to the store.

The woman, described as white, 5-foot-1 and heavyset, was wearing a dark hooded sweat shirt, bluejeans and white sneakers and had multiple face and ear piercings. She ran off before police arrived, Tall said.

A Hampden man was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants Saturday after driving his truck into the oncoming traffic lane on Perry Road in Bangor, officials said.

Police noticed the 1993 Ford 350 when it pulled in front of a car in the through lane after being in the left-turn lane.

Bangor police Officer Shawn Green said Maurice Cyr, 21, was pulled over when the truck jerked to the far right side of the road, then jerked over to the far left side of the road.

Cyr failed the field sobriety tests and refused a breathalyzer test before he was taken to Penobscot County Jail.

A Dover-Foxcroft man faces multiple charges after a car accident in Brewer on Friday night, police said.

Ronald Kain, 45, had been driving on State Street near Eastern Avenue when he lost control of his vehicle and drove over a curb, struck a telephone pole and continued to drive on State Street, Brewer police Officer Anthony Pinnette said Sunday. Pinnette had been traveling in the opposite direction at the time of the accident and saw it take place.

Kain later refused a breathalyzer test and was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of intoxicants, Pinnette said.

A search of Kain’s 1989 Mercury Cougar found a small amount of marijuana and a “makeshift” marijuana pipe, Pinnette said. Kain was charged with possession of a usable amount of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and violation of condition of release stemming from an assault arrest in Piscataquis County.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton