Deputies investigate evening break-in

Officers from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department arrested two men in connection with a reported break-in at a Milford home Thursday evening.

Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Burgess said a Pine Street woman came home at about 6 p.m. Thursday to find the lights on, though she had left them turned off at about 2 p.m.

Deputy Burgess said the state police had taken two burglary complaints from that same house in the past two weeks.

Detective Bill Flagg of the Sheriff’s Department dusted for fingerprints. Deputy Sgt. Scott Young assisted Trooper Barry Meserve and Semper, a German shepherd, in following tracks from the burglarized house to a home on the Call Road.

Flagg said Christopher Spencer, 19, of Milford was arrested and charged with burglary, theft, and violation of bail conditions in connection with a prior criminal trespass charge.

Flagg said Herbert Spencer, 19, of Milford was charged with receiving stolen property and possession of drug paraphernalia and placed on a probation hold.

Flagg said some stolen property was recovered, and more will be recovered on Friday.

Bangor police arrested a man Thursday afternoon after he allegedly stole frozen pizza and bacon from a barn.

Officer Douglas Moore reported that at about 1 p.m. he went to Cedar Street, where a caller said he saw somebody enter a neighbor’s barn. While Moore was en route, the caller informed him that the suspect had left the barn with a plastic bag and was walking down the street.

Moore stopped the suspect, John Feltham, 45. Moore said Feltham told him the owners of the barn would sometimes leave returnable bottles for him to pick up.

Feltham allowed Moore to look in the bag, Moore said, which contained some returnable bottles as well as two boxes of frozen pizza and a package of frozen bacon. Feltham first said he bought the food at a supermarket, but he could show no receipt.

Moore said Feltham eventually admitted stealing the food from the barn.

Moore arrested Feltham on charges of burglary and theft. He then went to the barn, where he found a small freezer. Moore put the food back in the freezer.

Moore said that on the way to jail, Feltham told him he originally entered the barn for the bottles, but took the food when he saw it because he couldn’t afford to buy his own.

Moore noted that Feltham was on parole from Florida for an armed robbery conviction.

Bangor police summoned a man Wednesday after he allegedly assaulted his neighbor.

Officer Edward Mercier reported that at about 5:30 p.m. he went to a Fruit Street apartment house. A woman there told Mercier that her neighbor, Ralph Caldwell, had approached her in the common entryway and started shouting at her. The woman told Mercier that Caldwell was drunk at the time.

The woman told Mercier she had yelled at Caldwell to stop shouting, whereupon he punched her in the chest and choked her.

Mercier said a neighbor backed up the woman’s account. When Mercier spoke with Caldwell, Caldwell reportedly said, “I warned her to stop harassing, and she pushed me too far.”

Mercier charged Caldwell with assault.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball