A Bangor man was arrested for drunken driving early Saturday morning after he crashed his car into a utility pole on Valley Avenue and fled the scene on foot.

Stephen Curtis Jr., 26, wasn’t injured in the accident.

Around 1 a.m., Bangor police Officers Josh Ouellette and Chad Foley went to the scene of a car accident on Valley Avenue. According to police reports, a passer-by saw a car in the ditch and electrical wires across the road, as well as a male walking up the street away from the accident. The officers couldn’t find the owner at the scene, but traced the registration to Curtis, the report said. The officers went to Curtis’ residence at 791 Kenduskeag Ave. to question him.

Curtis said he had been driving the car alone at the time of the accident a half-hour earlier, according to the report. Curtis said he hadn’t had anything to drink since the accident, but admitted to drinking before the accident. When Ouellette asked him how much, Curtis replied “too much,” the report said. Ouellette observed Curtis swaying during a field sobriety test and reported that Curtis later said he couldn’t complete the test.

Curtis was arrested for operating under the influence and taken to Penobscot County Jail where his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.17. The damage to the car was estimated at $4,000.

An incident of road rage turned into a summons for a Bangor man who used a key to scratch a car Sunday night.

Floyd David, 42, was charged with criminal mischief for an incident in Shaw’s parking lot on Main Street.

Around 7 p.m., Bangor police Officers Michael Brennan and Myron Warner responded to a complaint by Becky Chamberlain of Hermon. While she was sitting in her Jeep, a tall man walked by the rear of Chamberlain’s vehicle and scratched the back window and door with car keys, the report said. Chamberlain waited until the man went inside and then got his license plate number. Brennan and Warner traced the registration to a Jeep Cherokee owned by David Floyd of 34 Smith St.

The officers met Floyd at his apartment where he admitted to being at Shaw’s and scratching the back window of the woman’s car but said he didn’t damage it, the report said. Floyd said she had forced his vehicle to one side of the intersection of Main and Walter streets.

Floyd was summoned for criminal mischief, and his court date is March 3.

A video store manager reported Monday that 30 new DVDs were stolen over the weekend from the Movie Gallery store on Union Street in Bangor.

At 12:15 p.m., manager Allen Clay said someone had come into the store over the weekend, cut open DVD cases to bypass security locks and took only the DVDs. Clay said this type of incident had happened before, according to a police report by Bangor police Officer Brandon Vafiades.

Over a period of time, approximately 222 DVDs and video games have been stolen in the same manner, Clay said. According to the report, Clay suspected a heavy-set male measuring 5 feet 8 inches tall with dark hair and wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt. He added that the thefts occurred mostly over weekends when the store was busy.

Vafiades estimated the value of all the DVDs and video games at $4,440.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Anthony Saucier