More than $300 stolen from car washes

Bangor police are investigating two complaints of theft from coin-operated car washes on Wednesday.

Officer Jason McAmbley reported that an employee from the U-Wash-It on State Street said someone had stolen $150 in coins from a coin box on Sunday or Monday. Damage to the box also was estimated at $150.

Officer Butch Moor reported that an employee from the Griffin Road U-Wash-It said about $250 was taken from a coin box between 6 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. In both cases, access to the box was gained by drilling out the lock.

Hampden police also are investigating a coin-operated car wash burglary that was reported Wednesday morning.

Officer J.D. Burke reported that Wednesday morning employees at the U-Wash-It on Main Road North discovered that the lock on a coin box there had been drilled out. The amount of money in coins taken was not reported.

Veazie police are investigating an attempt to steal coins from a coin-operated dryer.

Officer T. J. Warner reported that the dryer, located in a common area in a School Street apartment building, was pulled away from the wall and its back panel ripped off, apparently in a failed attempt to raid the coin box. The incident was reported Wednesday afternoon.

Warner said damage to the dryer was estimated at $65. The coin box remained intact.

Brewer police summoned a woman from Mount Kisco, N.Y., for driving without a license Tuesday night.

Officer Rodney Gerald reported that at about 11:45 p.m. he saw a car traveling at 46 mph in a 30 mph zone on North Main Street.

Gerald said that he learned the driver, Courtnee Peters, 25, had a suspended New York driver’s license and no valid Maine license. She was charged with operating without a license.

Brewer police issued three summonses to occupants of a car with a broken headlight Tuesday night.

Officer Nelson Feero said that at about 9 p.m. he noticed a car traveling on Wilson Street with a headlight out.

Feero said the driver, Katheryn Stewart, 20, of Brewer, consented to a search of the car. Feero found open beer containers and charged Stewart with illegal transportation of alcohol by a minor.

Feero said Stewart’s passenger, Mark Connelly, 45, of LaGrange, consented to a search of his person. Feero found a pipe that smelled of marijuana. He charged Connelly with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Feero said a 16-year-old boy in the car had cigarettes, and was charged with possession of tobacco by a minor.

Brewer police summoned a Veazie woman after she allegedly ran a red light Tuesday night.

Officer Nelson Feero said that at about 8 p.m. he stopped behind a vehicle that had stopped for a red light. The vehicle then drove through the red light, Feero said, so he pulled it over.

The driver, Lisa Bouchard, 42, of Veazie, told Feero she didn’t know the light was red. Dispatch informed Feero that Bouchard’s license was suspended, and Feero charged her with operating after suspension.

Hampden police arrested a Hermon man Tuesday night on a charge of operating after suspension.

Officer Shawn Devine said that at about 9:30 p.m. he stopped a vehicle he saw traveling at 48 mph in a 30 mph zone on Lower Cold Brook Road.

Devine said the driver, Todd Capetta, 18, of Hermon, gave him a license and denied that it was suspended.

Dispatch informed Devine that Capetta’s license was indeed suspended. Devine said Capetta told him he often drove to work anyhow. Capetta was arrested.

Sgt. Scott Webber searched Capetta’s passenger, Brian Darrah, 18, of Hermon, and found a small amount of marijuana. He was charged with possession of a usable amount of marijuana.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball