An ice cream truck driver was carrying more than good humor Tuesday afternoon, Old Town police reported.

Officer Steven Boyd said a woman called police at about 1:30 p.m. complaining she could smell marijuana when she went up to an ice cream truck to buy a treat for her child. The woman gave the truck’s plate number to police.

Boyd said he and Sgt. Mike Hashey found and stopped the truck. They spoke with the driver, Alyse Volovick, 23. Boyd said Volovick consented to a search of the truck, which produced a small amount of marijuana and a pipe.

Volovick was summoned for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Boyd said the officers screened Volovick for impairment and decided she still could drive.

Sparks flew Tuesday afternoon when a small car struck a utility pole in Exeter.

Maine State Trooper Roderick Charette said a Chevrolet passenger car went off the Corinth Road at about 2:50 p.m., striking a utility pole head-on. Charette said the pole snapped at its base.

Live power lines fell into the trees beside the road and shot sparks until power was switched off. Charette said power usually cuts off immediately when a pole is struck.

The driver was not sure exactly what happened, but speculated that strong winds had blown her car off the roadway, where she lost control in the soft shoulder.

A home was burglarized Monday evening in Old Town.

Old Town police Sgt. Scott Casey said residents of a Bodwell Street home called at 6:45 p.m. to report a burglary. They had been in the process of moving out, Casey said, and had left their home with the doors locked for no more than two hours.

Casey said that when the complainants returned home, they found that someone had entered through an unlocked window and took a television, a VCR and other items. Casey said some of the goods were rented. There are no suspects at this time.

An Old Town man was summoned Tuesday after police found marijuana growing at his home.

Old Town police Detective Mike Holmes and Sgt. Mike Hashey went to a College Avenue address at about 9:15 a.m. to deliver a summons for the Orono Police Department, the report said. Nobody was home, but the officers found a small marijuana plant growing in a cup near the rear of the home.

The report said Hashey and Holmes returned at 11 p.m. and spoke with resident Garry Godfrey, 18, of Old Town, who invited them in. When the officers found marijuana seeds and drug paraphernalia, Godfrey admitted trying to grow the plant, the report said. He said only one of the three plants he started actually grew.

Godfrey was summoned for aggravated cultivation of marijuana because it was within 1,000 feet of a school.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball