Old Town man arrested in truck theft after chase

An Old Town man confessed to burglarizing unlocked vehicles after police pulled him from a stolen pickup truck, police said.

Shortly before midnight Tuesday, Old Town police Officer Brent Fournier received a call about an auto theft from a Park Street address.

While Fournier was on the lookout for the brown GMC, dispatch informed him that the truck’s owner, Jose Medeiros, had located the truck and was following it in a Jeep Cherokee on County Road in Milford, Fournier said.

Fournier pursued the vehicles and, with Sgt. Michael Hashey, boxed in the GMC and forced the driver over.

Hashey said that when the officers drew their weapons and ordered the driver out of the truck, he lit a cigarette and ignored them.

Hashey opened the door, and the officers took the driver to the ground and handcuffed him. Sgt. Hashey said he recognized the man as 20-year-old David Chapman, according to the report.

A pat down revealed a handheld global positioning device, a small strobe light and an Altoids tin containing about $5 in change.

At the police station, Chapman voluntarily informed police that he had taken these items from unlocked cars on Dartmouth and Park streets, Fournier said. He later drove through the neighborhood with police to point out which cars he had robbed.

Officer Thomas Adams noted that Chapman said he tried other vehicles as well, but they were locked.

Adams said police returned the global positioning device to its rightful owner, but still haven’t located the owner of the other items.

Fournier took Chapman to Penobscot County Jail, where he was charged with burglary of a motor vehicle, operating after revocation of license, operating a vehicle with excessive blood alcohol level, and unauthorized use of property.

Bangor police summoned two women for drug possession Tuesday night.

Sarah Diecidue of Bangor and Sarah McDonough of Brewer reportedly were smoking marijuana at Diecidue’s Finson Road address when Officer Erik Tall knocked on the door about 10 p.m. as part of a burglary investigation in that neighborhood, Tall said.

Tall said he asked if he could come in, and Diecidue opened the door. After asking some questions, Tall told Diecidue he could smell marijuana smoke, and asked her to give him the drugs.

Diecidue gave Tall a tin containing marijuana, rolling papers, scissors, a pipe and a lighter, Tall said.

Tall said both women admitted they were smoking when he arrived. Diecidue explained that she had just had a baby and was smoking to help with pain related to a medical problem.

When Tall asked McDonough if she had any drugs, she gave him a cigarette case with over a dozen marijuana cigarette butts in it.

Tall summoned McDonough for possession of a usable amount of marijuana. He summoned Diecidue for the same charge along with possession of drug paraphernalia.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball