Charges expected after cable line raid

Millinocket police found drug paraphernalia and stolen cable service in an apartment search Monday evening.

Sgt. Richard Leavitt said workers from Bee-Line Cable TV noticed in late August that the lock had been broken on a cable line box attached to a Katahdin Avenue apartment. The cables, previously disconnected by the company, had apparently been reattached.

Leavitt said the residents were never home when officers stopped by to discuss the matter, so he and Officer Jerry Cox obtained a search warrant, and searched the apartment Monday at about 7:30 p.m.

Bee-Line personnel also participated, Leavitt said.

Leavitt said police found two TV sets connected to the cable box, as well as a pipe containing marijuana residue.

Charges are expected.

Bangor police summoned a man who allegedly tried to hide photographs under his child to avoid paying for them Sunday afternoon.

Officer Jason McAmbley reported that at about 12:30 p.m. he went to Wal-Mart on Springer Drive, where store security reported a shoplifter in custody.

McAmbley said he met with security officer John York, who said he watched Girard Church, 20, pick up a packet of photos upon entering the store, then walk around the store, occasionally looking at the pictures.

York said Church put the photos under his daughter’s seat in the shopping cart before going through the checkout aisle, and made no attempt to pay for them.

York stopped Church outside the store and brought him back inside, and called the police.

A ladder was reported stolen from a Broadway property Monday morning.

Bangor police Officer David Bushey said a man told him a 40-foot ladder was reported missing at about 9:20 a.m.

The ladder had been chained to a concrete post beside an apartment building, the man said. The chain also was missing.

One of the man’s tenants said they saw two men carrying a ladder down Broadway Friday night.

The case is still under investigation.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball