Bangor man held after moneybag taken from car

A Bangor man was being held on $20,000 bail Thursday night after he was arrested on a warrant for burglary to a motor vehicle, a Class C felony, earlier in the day in connection with a stolen moneybag.

Ryan Fish, 24, remained in Penobscot County Jail on Thursday night after Bangor police Officer Erik Tall and Detective Brent Beaulieu arrested him when they found him in a car on Union Street near Hammond Street just after 3 p.m. Thursday, Tall said. Fish was taken to Bangor Police Department for an interview before he was taken to jail.

Officials believe Fish to be the person who stole a moneybag from a parked car Dec. 2, police said. A woman had parked her car at The Brick Oven bakery, 183 Hancock St., and was coming out of the business when she saw a man wearing a gray jacket over a gray hooded sweat shirt carrying a moneybag that had been in her car. The woman chased the man across Hancock Street but returned to the bakery to call police after she lost sight of him.

Fish will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor today.

A Kenduskeag man charged with drunken driving Thursday morning told Bangor police he was speeding because he couldn’t see his dash.

Michael Thomas, 30, told police that his dash lights were not working so he could not tell how fast he was going, Bangor police Officer Shawn Green said. Thomas said he was surprised to learn that he had been driving 60 mph in a 35-mph zone.

Green had first noticed Thomas’ red 1989 Oldsmobile on Odlin Road because the car had a taillight out, Green said. As the officer attempted to catch up to it, Thomas’ car increased its speed and traveled erratically along the road.

Thomas told police he had had four beers, which he said was a lot for him, and then failed field sobriety tests. Further tests found Thomas’ blood alcohol level to be 0.18 percent; the legal limit for people over the age of 21 in Maine is 0.08 percent. Thomas will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor Jan. 13.

Police continued to look Thursday for the owner of a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run accident Tuesday.

Anthony Smith, 21, of Bangor had been driving his blue 1996 Chevrolet sedan north on Odlin Road just after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when a car that had pulled over to the side of the road, without using its turn signals, attempted to make a U-turn and struck his car, Smith told Bangor police Officer Kevin MacLaren. The car, a red Chevrolet two-door, pulled into a nearby parking lot and then drove southbound on Odlin Road to Interstate 395.

Smith said he followed the car from I-395 to Interstate 95 northbound before he stopped following it near the Hammond Street exit, MacLaren said. Damage to Smith’s car was estimated at $1,100. Neither Smith nor his passenger, Hunter Smith was injured.

Smith told police the license plate on the car was 9775KY, but officials were unable to find a car with that license plate in the Department of Motor Vehicles database, MacLaren said. Anyone with any information about the car, which should have damage to its driver’s side, is encouraged to call the Bangor Police Department at 947-7384.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton