An East Holden man claimed ignorance after he allegedly wore new shoes out of a Brewer store Tuesday morning without paying for them.

Brewer police Officer Rodney Gerald was dispatched to Marden’s department store at 10 a.m. for a shoplifting complaint. When he arrived, Gerald said, he found 19-year-old Phillip Wells in custody of store security.

The security officer told Gerald he saw Wells walk out of the store with something under his sweater. When Wells got to his car, he pulled a pair of old sneakers out of his shirt.

The officer said he then noticed Wells had on his feet new shoes from the store. The officer then confronted Wells and brought him back to the store.

Gerald said that when he questioned Wells, he explained he was walking around the store when he noticed the shoes sitting at the end of an aisle. Wells said he assumed the shoes didn’t belong to anybody because they had no tags.

Gerald summoned Wells for theft. His court date is May 16.

Drunken driving and excessive speed caught up with a Bangor resident Monday evening.

At about 7:45 p.m., Officer Steve Jordan clocked a Ford Explorer moving at 51 mph down Mildred Avenue, then onto Interstate 95 from Hammond Street, where Jordan measured the vehicle’s speed at 70 mph in the 55 mph zone, he said.

Jordan pulled the Ford over near Exit 47. He said the driver, 24-year-old Patricia Bishop, smelled of liquor, had slurred speech and clumsy fingers. She admitted having three beers at the Ground Round.

Jordan said she performed poorly on sobriety tests.

Jordan arrested Bishop and took her to the station where she reportedly was too drunk to use the Intoxilyzer properly at first.

Jordan took Bishop to Penobscot County Jail where he charged her with OUI and speeding.

Old Town police arrested a man for threatening his own daughter Monday evening.

At 8 p.m., Officer Bobby Pelletier went to the Bennoch Road residence of Wayne Sibley, 56.

Pelletier said Sibley’s adult daughter, who lives at the same address, had called police from a friend’s house to say Sibley had become angry and threatened to “bat her upside the … head.”

Sibley’s daughter said this was not the first time he had threatened her.

Pelletier took Sibley to Penobscot County Jail, charging him with criminal threatening.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball