Bangor man charged in theft of television

A Bangor woman wanted police to remove her 29-year-old son from her Warren Street home Tuesday night only to find out later that he had left on his own accord and with more than his personal belongings.

A neighbor reported seeing Donald Pierce leave with a large television set belonging to his mother. He put the 27-inch TV in the trunk of a cab. The taxi driver told Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan that he dropped off Pierce and the television at a residence on Pine Street.

Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan spoke to Pierce at the Pine Street home and he claimed that he had left the television at a friend’s house. Pierce refused to let Jordan see the television according to the police report, and the officer summoned him on a charge of theft.

More problems were reported later at the mother’s Warren Street home. Shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday, about four hours after she first contacted police, the woman called the police station to report a rock had been thrown through her window.

Written on the rock were the words “Thief Die,” a message she told Officer Wade Betters she believes was intended for her son.

A Bangor man has been charged with criminal trespassing and may face burglary charges after he entered a retired Bangor police officer’s home just before 4 a.m. Tuesday, officials said.

Police found items belonging to Ryan Middleton, 20, on the enclosed porch of a retired Bangor Police Department lieutenant and in the former officer’s yard shortly after he had allegedly been inside the home, officials said.

The former lieutenant and his wife were awakened to the sound of someone in their Mount Hope Avenue home and saw a pair of white sneakers on their enclosed porch. They later saw someone wearing the sneakers and a yellow T-shirt running away from the house in the direction of Yale Street, Bangor police Officer James Hassard said. On the porch, officials found a 1999 class ring inscribed with Middleton’s name, a second ring and a black BOSS T-shirt. In the yard, officials found a black visor, which a friend of Middleton’s said he had been wearing earlier in the night. Items on the porch had been moved, though it was not immediately clear whether anything was taken.

Middleton admitted he had been wearing the black shirt but claimed he had not been inside of the home and also claimed that he had lost his rings a few days earlier, Hassard said. The shoes that the family had seen on their porch were also found in Middleton’s home, as well as a yellow shirt.

Middleton will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Sept. 16.

Wanted in Portland in connection with an assault, a Veazie man was arrested late Tuesday night after he returned to his home on Brookside Terrace.

Local police were alerted by police in Portland to be on the lookout for 61-year-old David A. Ingraham, who allegedly assaulted his wife there.

The lights were out inside the home when Veazie police Officer Ryan Welch went to check for Ingraham shortly after 9 p.m. Welch returned at 9:50 p.m. and found the lights on and Ingraham home.

Ingraham admitted to Welch that he and his wife had had problems that had escalated that day.

A Cutler man was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants after an off-duty police officer noticed the man erratically operating the vehicle he was in, officials said.

Bangor police Sgt. Bob Bishop pulled Harold Landeen, 61, over at 136 Union St. and, with Bangor police Officer Larry Morrill, conducted a field sobriety test on Landeen, Morrill said.

Landeen failed the tests and was arrested and taken to Penobscot County Jail. An Intoxilyzer test found his blood alcohol level to be at 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent for adults in Maine.

A car stereo was stolen from a 1998 Pontiac Grand Am sometime between Monday night and early Tuesday morning at Darling’s Ford on the Hogan Road, Bangor police Officer Chris Blanchard said. The radio was valued at $300.

It appeared as though the thief obtained the key to the car and then stole the radio, officials said. No other items were reportedly taken.

A New Hampshire man avoided serious injury after rolling his car on Route 170 in Kingman Tuesday morning, officials said.

Alston Muir, 22, of Londonderry, N.H., had been driving north on the freshly paved road at around 10 a.m. when he failed to make a sharp right turn with his 1997 Saturn sedan and rolled the vehicle onto its roof, Deputy Peter Stone of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said. Muir had been wearing a seat belt and suffered only minor cuts and bruises. He was treated at the scene.

While excessive speed was not believed to have been a factor, Muir “was driving too fast for that corner,” Stone said. The deputy noted that despite the corner being well posted there have been several accidents there this year.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Derek Breton and Doug Kesseli