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The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a burglary that occurred in Dixmont on Monday afternoon.
Deputy Sean McCue said that somebody apparently kicked in the door of a Troy Center Road house between noon and 4:30 p.m. and then ransacked it.
McCue said drawers, closets and a medicine cabinet had been emptied, but that no fingerprints or footprints were found.
McCue said that while a gold necklace, a DVD-VCR unit, a satellite dish access card and CDs were taken, it appeared the burglar did not find everything he was looking for.
A Passadumkeag woman drifted off Route 2 in Orono Monday morning and struck a utility pole after apparently suffering a heart attack, police said.
Janet Spencer, 55, was headed toward Orono’s downtown at 10:36 a.m. in a Kia Sportage, witnesses said, when she drifted off the road onto a sidewalk and then into a utility pole, said Orono Police Sgt. Josh Ewing. Spencer’s SUV crashed by the driveway at 166 Main St.
Spencer was treated at the scene by Orono paramedics and apparently revived before she was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center. There she was listed in critical condition Monday night.
Bangor police arrested a Dedham man Sunday night for operating under the influence.
Officer Shawn Green reported that at 9:40 p.m. he was on Outer Hammond Street with his blue lights flashing, en route to investigate a security alarm. Green noticed a white truck with a firefighter plate pull over to let him pass.
Green said dispatch informed him that the truck was seen driving erratically fifteen minutes before. Green turned off his blue lights, turned around, and caught up with the truck. It had turned around, too, and was stopped at a red light on Odlin Road.
Green said he followed the truck down Interstate 395, as it weaved in the passing lane at 70 mph. Green turned on his blue lights, he said, but the truck did not respond for 30 seconds. He then turned on the siren, and after another 30 seconds the truck pulled over.
Green said the driver, Christopher Hamilton, 37, of Dedham, told him, “I’m not gonna lie, I’ve had a couple of beers.”
Hamilton did very poorly on sobriety tests and was arrested for operating under the influence, Green said. Hamilton’s license had been suspended as a habitual offender.
Green issued Hamilton an OUI charge, and a felony charge of operating after suspension as a habitual offender.
-Compiled by NEWS reporters Isaac Kimball and Doug Kesseli
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