Pair summoned for shoplifting from Filene’s

Two women from the Skowhegan area were summoned for walking out of a Bangor Mall store Tuesday afternoon with $56 worth of stolen accessories.

At 4:30 p.m. Officer Rob Angelo received a shoplifting call from Filene’s clothing store. He said he spoke with the store security officer, Kelly Anderson, who had two women in custody in the security office.

Anderson said she saw 19-year-old Ashley Winter of Anson select two pairs of shorts, a bathing suit top and tank top. Winter later paid for the tank top but did not appear to have the other clothes with her, Anderson said.

Anderson said she found the other clothes Winter selected lying in the fitting room. A belt was missing from one of the pairs of shorts.

Anderson said that the other woman, 18-year-old Kelly Cook of Madison took a belt off a pair of shorts and put it into a J.C. Penney bag.

The two walked from the store into the mall, where Anderson stopped them and escorted them back to the security office.

Both Winter and Cook admitted they took the belts and apologized to Officer Angelo and to mall security, Angelo said.

Cook also admitted she took a bottle of body spray from The Bath and Body Store, Angelo said.

Angelo summoned both women for theft. The mall gave them criminal trespass warnings, telling them not to return to the mall.

The blue cloth belt Winter stole cost $28. The leather belt Cook stole cost the same amount.

Brewer police summoned an Orrington man on drug charges early Tuesday morning.

About half-past midnight, Brewer Police Department and Maine State Police were conducting a routine road safety check when Cpl. Roger Hershey saw what he believed to be a marijuana pipe in the glove box of a driver’s car, Officer Richard Smith said.

Smith said a search of 29-year-old David Bennett’s car revealed a useable amount of marijuana.

Bennett was summoned for possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball