Thief takes $8,143 worth of items from trailer

An employee for Lynox Cleaning Service on Hammond Street attempted to open a trailer owned by the company Monday afternoon only to find that someone had changed the locks, Bangor police Officer Robert Hutchings Jr. said. After the employee cut the lock with bolt cutters it was found that someone had taken 34 items valued at $8,143.91 from inside the trailer.

Police seized as evidence the lock that the thief had placed on the door, Hutchings said. The burglary took place between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:22 p.m. Monday. Anyone with any information can call the Bangor Police Department at 947-7384.

Failure to scrape frost from a windshield was blamed for a car rollover in Orrington on Tuesday morning.

Haily Geaghan, 18, of Orrington was driving a 1998 Volkswagen Jetta on the Brewer Lake Road when she lost control of her vehicle on a corner, struck a rock and rolled the vehicle onto its driver’s side, said Trooper Michael Johnston of the Maine State Police. The accident was caused by the lack of vision, not speed, Johnston said.

Geaghan, who was wearing a seat belt, was not injured, Johnston said. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $3,000.

A Bangor man charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants was allegedly driving with nearly four times the legal amount of alcohol in his system, Bangor police said.

A concerned citizen called the Bangor Police Department just after 10 p.m. Monday to report a drunken driver leaving a convenience store at the corner of Broadway and Husson Avenue in a black 1998 Dodge Avenger with California license plates, Bangor police Officer Chris Desmond said. Police found the car on Broadway as it was straddling the white line that separates the northbound lanes.

William Comer, 56, nearly fell as he got out of his vehicle and almost went to the ground again as he attempted to walk, Desmond said.

When asked to take field sobriety tests Comer “said he would but he further said he was drunk and there was no point to it,” Desmond said. Comer failed the tests he did attempt and was taken to Penobscot County Jail where he was found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.31 percent. The legal limit for anyone over the age of 21 in Maine is 0.08 percent. Comer told police that he had a previous conviction in 1996 for OUI in California.

While nothing appeared to have been taken during a break-in at Card Service Credit Solutions, 211 North Main St., officials were concerned that information, such as social security numbers, may have been copied from client files, Brewer police Sgt. Chris Martin said. Someone broke in the back door between Oct. 10 and Tuesday morning when wood chips from the broken door were discovered. Damage was estimated at $100. An investigation into the break-in is continuing.