Bangor police Sunday were seeking the owner of a car that was being driven with a stolen license plate.

On Saturday, Officer Daniel Herrick reported seeing an unattended parked car in a driveway on Dean Street. In its rear window was a Maine license plate the officer learned had been stolen.

Later that evening, Herrick spotted the same car pulling into the same driveway. He summoned the driver, Jeremy Clark, 20, of Bangor for operating a motor vehicle while his right to operate was suspended.

While searching the car, Herrick found the stolen license plate beneath the passenger’s front seat, according to the police report. Clark told police he knew nothing about the plate and that the vehicle belonged to Justin McCue, who had recently purchased the car from a person who worked nearby. The former owner, upon police request, identified the car as the one he had sold to McCue. Herrick seized the license plate, and with the permission of the woman who owns the house where the car was parked, left the vehicle in that driveway.

More than four hours later, about 11:15 p.m., Herrick saw the same car in a driveway beside Fairmount Market. This time, the driver fled as the officer approached, leaving behind a passenger and two partial cases of beer. When Herrick returned to the driveway within a minute after an unsuccessful chase, the passenger was gone.

From previous dealings, Herrick recognized the passenger and returned to the house on Dean Street and found Daniel Kelley, 18, of Bangor. Herrick summoned Kelley for possession of liquor by a minor.

Police on Sunday weren’t sure who the driver was who fled.

A pickup truck and camping trailer were considered total losses after a Sunday afternoon accident on Interstate 95 near Lincoln.

Paul Paulin, 60, of McDonald, Pa., was driving southbound in Mattamiscontis Township when he fell asleep, according to police reports. As he drifted into the median, he woke up and overcorrected, said Trooper Thomas Fiske of the Maine State Police. The rig rolled over and both the truck and trailer were total losses.

Paul Paulin and his wife and passenger, Linda Paulin, 54, were taken to Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln with minor injuries, Fiske said. Both were treated, then released. They were both wearing seat belts and their airbags deployed.

Brewer police arrested a woman Saturday evening and charged her with driving with a suspended license. They also issued her and her passenger a summons for possession of marijuana.

Police stopped Erica Tripp, 19, of Bangor for driving a vehicle with an expired registration. Officer Peter Rancourt charged her with driving with a suspended license.

After searching the vehicle the officer found marijuana, some of which Tripp admitted to owning and some of which her passenger, Allison Smyth, 19, of Medway admitted to owning, according to police.

A man was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on Saturday evening in Brewer.

Joshua Keefe, 18, of Veazie was stopped for speeding by Brewer police Cpl. Levi Sewall and Officer Roger Hershey. The officers spotted the marijuana and uncovered the paraphernalia at that time.

Compiled by NEWS reporter Nancy Jacobson