Three car burglaries being traced

Two car burglaries reported Wednesday morning in Bangor are still under investigation.

Bangor police Officers David Bushey and Larry Morrill went to a Woodland Drive address about 6:30 a.m. where a Chevrolet Cavalier had reportedly been burglarized. A total of $205 of property was reportedly taken from the car, including $100 in soccer equipment and clothing, which the officers found by the road, Bushey said.

At about 9:20 a.m. Bushey and Morrill went to another Woodland Drive address where two cars had also reportedly been burglarized. Bushey said about 30 or 40 CDs were missing from one car, and a Sony Discman from the other. Neither car had been locked, Bushey said.

The officers lifted fingerprints from all three cars.

An unidentified man reported as acting suspiciously disappeared Tuesday morning in Bangor before police could speak to him.

Officer Jason Stuart reported that he spoke with a man in a Husson Avenue parking lot just before 4 a.m. who said he saw a man testing doors on cars in the lot. The complainant told Stuart he saw a man enter a Saturn and look for things in the front and back seats.

The complainant said he confronted the man, who said something had been stolen from him and he was just trying to find it. When the complainant told the man it looked like he was stealing from the cars, he became upset and walked away.

Stuart said he, with Officers Mike Jewett and Chad Foley, checked the area but found no one.

Bangor police arrested a man after he allegedly charged an officer Sunday afternoon.

Officer Chad Foley reported he saw two other officers remove a visibly intoxicated Gerald Dawson, 51, from the National Folk Festival grounds, just before 4 p.m. Foley said a teenager approached him about 15 minutes later, saying a man matching Dawson’s description had bumped into him just before the boy discovered his wallet missing.

Foley said he and the boy walked in the direction Dawson had taken after leaving the festival. A group of firefighters at the Central Fire Station on Main Street told them Dawson was sitting behind the building. They told Foley they had seen Dawson confront a group of kids, who then pelted him with rocks.

Foley said the boy identified Dawson as the man who had bumped into him, but Dawson denied having anything, saying if he had had anything of the boy’s he had already torn it to pieces. Foley said he patted Dawson down but found only Dawson’s wallet.

At the firefighters’ request, Foley told Dawson to leave. Dawson made an aggressive motion at Foley’s stomach, Foley said, so Foley grabbed his arm and pinned him against the building. Foley arrested Dawson on charges of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball