Deliverymen face drug summonses

Old Town police charged two doughnut deliverymen with sale and use of drug paraphernalia earlier this week.

At about 11 p.m. Sunday, Sgt. Scott Casey and Officer Thomas Adams received a call that a black Buick was swerving erratically as it moved down Main Street in Old Town.

The officers found the car idling in a parking lot. The driver, Robert Champaign of Dover-Foxcroft, denied that he had been driving erratically, Adams said. Champaign said that he and Duane Hyde of Genoa, N.Y., who was also in the car, had been delivering doughnuts to local Irving stores.

Adams could smell alcoholic beverages in the car, and asked Champaign to step out, he said. There was no alcohol smell on Champaign’s breath. Sgt. Casey saw a pipe in the Buick’s ashtray, Adams said. While Adams was patting Champaign down prior to a field sobriety test, he found another pipe in his pocket, which contained a small amount of marijuana. According to Adams, Champaign said that that the pipe didn’t belong to him and that he had found it on the floor of the car.

Hyde admitted to having lit up one of the pipes as they left the Orono Irving store, and that he had offered it to Champaign, Adams said. Champaign allegedly inhaled once, but experienced a coughing fit because he had a cold, which then caused the erratic driving.

The field sobriety test showed that Champaign was not impaired, Adams said.

Adams confiscated the evidence and issued the two men summonses. He then let them continue to deliver their doughnuts.

A purse disappeared from a parked car Wednesday afternoon in Bangor.

At about 12:30 p.m., Shalise Forti, 16, of Bangor, called the police saying that someone had taken her purse out of her late-model Mercury Sable while she went inside the Hammond Street Subway. According to the report, Forti said that the purse itself was worth $15, but that it didn’t actually contain anything of value. Forti had left the car unlocked, the report said. Nobody was seen near the car, and police are considering the case inactive due to the lack of leads.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball