Police accuse man of yelling obscenities at motorist

A Bangor man was charged with disorderly conduct after what police called a case of road rage Saturday afternoon on Kenduskeag Avenue.

A 42-year-old Bangor woman had been turning left from Kenduskeag Avenue onto Griffin Road when she noticed a male driver who yelled at her and pulled close behind her rear bumper. She stopped her vehicle, and his car bumped into hers, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said. Tall, who had been slowing for a red light, witnessed the collision and watched as the male driver leaped from his car and began shouting obscenities at the woman, who had three children under age 6 in her vehicle.

When Tall drove up, the man he identified as Ryan Beckwith, 26, jumped into his car and pulled it over to the curb before getting out and yelling at the woman again, Tall said. Beckwith ignored a disorderly conduct warning and continued to yell when he was summoned for disorderly conduct, so Tall placed him under arrest and took him to Penobscot County Jail in Bangor. Beckwith will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Oct. 25.

An Orono woman was charged with theft and possession of a Schedule W drug after she was caught attempting to steal clothing for a store at the Bangor Mall on Saturday afternoon, police said.

Rebecca S. Sanborn, 19, was caught attempting to steal two shirts from Deb’s and admitted to stealing the clothes, but claimed that her name was Katie Welch, Bangor police Officer James Hassard said. Additional items bearing sales tags found in Sanborn’s possession could not be immediately identified as stolen.

A wallet in a bag Sanborn was carrying held a plastic container containing a spoon with its handle missing, Hassard said. The spoon had white powder on it with burn marks on its bottom. Sanborn, still claiming to be Welch, told police the powder was OxyContin.

Sanborn was issued a trespass warning by mall security under the Welch name, but admitted her real name as she was being escorted to the police cruiser, Hassard said. She was reissued a trespass warning, then was issued the two charges and taken to Penobscot County Jail in Bangor. Sanborn also was wanted on a warrant for failure to pay fines. She will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor today.

Police seized and destroyed 20 to 30 five-sided pink pills after a custodian found the pills on a window ledge in the Gate 4 concourse at Bangor International Airport on Saturday night, Bangor police Officer Donald Gagner said. The ledge is high off the ground and the concourse area is used for incoming and outgoing international flights only. The pills were believed to be Decadron, a steroid, but were not positively identified before their destruction.

A transient man was found to be wanted in three states after he was arrested for shoplifting at Wal-Mart on Springer Drive in Bangor Saturday afternoon.

Wal-Mart security had watched as Jack W. Turner, 46, placed batteries, fuel injection cleaner, pain reliever, oil treatment, a sweat shirt, a dress shirt, a pair of pants, men’s underwear, an electric razor and sunglasses into a cooler and a Wal-Mart shopping bag, Bangor police Officer Douglas Moor said. Turner allegedly then walked to the register and bought a carton of cigarettes, but walked out of the store with the rest of the items unpaid for. The value of the stolen items was $189.

Turner was stopped by store security, Moor said. Turner was found to be wanted on warrants from Arizona and Washington and a pair of warrants from the Alabama Department of Corrections. One of the warrants from Alabama ordered Turner to be extradited. That warrant was for a parole violation in relation to a conviction for receiving stolen goods and burglary. No information was immediately available on the other warrants.

A Bangor man was given a written trespass warning for the fourth floor of Eastern Maine Medical Center and taken to the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation Sunday afternoon after he punched his sister in the face while the two were visiting their mother, police said.

Reginald Randall, 62, admitted to hitting his 60-year-old sister from Massachusetts and claimed it was because she was going around town spreading a false story about them, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said. The sister, however, said that she had just arrived from Massachusetts and hadn’t seen her brother in a long time. The woman had a swollen upper lip and claimed to have been hit at least once.

A Whiting man reported 50 OxyContin pills stolen from one of his bags after disembarking Sunday afternoon from a Vermont Transit bus from Lewiston, Bangor police Officer Stephen Jordan said. The man reported that someone had taken the pills, valued at $50, from his bag, likely while he had gone to the restroom on the bus and left the bag by his seat. Police were investigating the theft Sunday.

Three people from Greater Bangor avoided serious injury after a Brewer man failed to stop for a red light and struck the driver’s side of a car driven by a Bangor man, police said.

Harry Boucher, 87, had been driving his 1995 Dodge sedan south on Broadway with Shirley Morong of Brewer in the passenger seat when Boucher failed to stop for a red light at the intersection of Cumberland Street and struck a 1994 Chrysler sedan driven by Stephen Fessenden, 45, of Bangor, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said. Morong and Boucher suffered only minor injuries. Each of the vehicles incurred more than $3,000 in damage.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton