Corinna man charged with country club break-in

A Corinna man faces two burglary charges and possibly more after Orono police connected him to last Saturday’s break-in at a Route 2 home and at the Penobscot Valley Country Club.

Eugene Young, 37, was summoned Thursday night on the burglary charges and Orono Detective Sgt. Robert Bryant said the case has been turned over to the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office to see whether other charges will be filed.

Bryant said Young broke into the Route 2 home while the owners were away, rifled through drawers and left with keys to a pickup truck left outside the home. Young, whose license is under suspension and who had been drinking, drove the pickup truck to the country club where he smashed a window to gain entry to the golf club’s pro shop. The alarm sounded and Young fled, Bryant said.

Bryant said attention to detail helped break the case with officers finding at both locations beer cans bearing Young’s fingerprints as well as sneaker prints at both sites that matched Young’s sneakers.

An Old Town man who shot a moose in early November has been charged with shooting a moose out of season.

The shot didn’t kill the moose and game wardens found the cow moose standing in place, bleeding from where part of its nose had been shot, said Sgt. Doug Tibbetts of the Maine Warden Service. Authorities later decided to euthanize the animal.

The cow was found in the woods near the Bradford Station Road off Route 16 in Alton on Nov. 5 and other hunters told investigators about a vehicle they had seen in the area. Tibbetts and Warden Dan Scott also found sneaker prints in the fresh snow.

Based on the description of the vehicle, Tibbetts said that over a two-week period they narrowed their search and eventually came to Benn Clark, 19, of Old Town, who had been in the area with a friend. Tibbetts said they don’t know why Clark fired at the moose, although Clark claimed he did it fearing that the animal was going to attack them.

Takeout took on a different meaning earlier this week at the KFC in Old Town after a man came into the fast food restaurant, grabbed a painting of the chain’s founder, Col. Sanders, and left.

But given a good description of the getaway vehicle – a white Isuzu Rodeo with Georgia license plates – Old Town police Officer Chris Hashey found the sports utility vehicle and stopped it in the parking lot of Brothers Pizza on Center Street. The picture was in the back seat, the officer reported.

Hashey contacted the manager of the KFC who didn’t want to press charges, but also didn’t want the art thief allowed back in his restaurant. Hashey warned him not to return to the KFC.

A worker with Old Town’s Department of Public Works told police Monday that he found a small box with a rock on top of it at Sewall Park. Inside the man found several dead rabbits. The box was turned over to the police who turned it over to the animal control officer to investigate. Officer Seth Bear reported that a mailing bar code was still visible on the box and could provide leads.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli