Hampden police probe double car theft

Hampden police are investigating the weekend thefts of a Jeep and a pickup truck from a local business.

Officer Ruth Duquette said that at about 4 a.m. Monday Officer Ben Eyles heard that a red Jeep Sport had been left running in a parking lot with its doors open and lights on. Eyles found there were no keys in the car, and it showed signs of being hot-wired.

Duquette said the Jeep belonged to Sargent & Sargent Inc. Eyles informed the company, which later called police at about 6:40 a.m. saying a silver 2003 GMC pickup truck was also missing from its Main Road North parking lot. The truck has amber strobe lights, a black toolbox and Maine commercial license No. 604-648.

Duquette said the truck had been locked, with no keys in it. If you have any information about these thefts, call the Hampden Police Department at 862-4000.

A Bangor man allegedly crashed his car into a pickup truck after careering down Broadway on Sunday evening.

Officer Chris Desmond reported that at about 5:45 p.m. he went to the intersection of Broadway and Grandview Avenue, where a car had rear-ended a moving pickup truck. Witnesses agreed that the car, driven by Harold Tracy, 49, of Bangor, was speeding.

Desmond said a number of independent witnesses estimated Tracy’s speed at between 80 and 100 mph. One woman said she was waiting at a red light on Broadway when Tracy passed her, running the light at about 100 mph.

Another witness said Tracy also hit a car near McDonald’s and kept on driving, without attempting to stop.

Witnesses also said Tracy’s car did not slow down until it collided with the truck.

Officer Desmond said Tracy was not intoxicated. Tracy allegedly denied remembering anything about his drive or either collision.

He was charged with driving to endanger and leaving the scene of a property damage accident. He also was cited for failing to stop for a red light and operating an unregistered vehicle.

Bangor police arrested a man wanted for furnishing drugs Sunday afternoon.

Officer Dan Herrick reported that at about 5:30 p.m. somebody called police saying they saw a “kid” snorting something in a green station wagon parked on Ohio Street. Herrick found the car on Ohio Street and arrested the passenger, Matthew Williams, 20, of Hampden, after learning that he had a warrant for illegal furnishing of scheduled drugs.

Herrick said he searched the area of the car near Williams’ seat and found a half-full bottle of haloperidol, an antipsychotic, and 36 pills of Seroquel, used to treat schizophrenia, in bubble packs. Both drugs require a prescription, Herrick said, which Williams did not have.

Herrick took Williams to Penobscot County Jail where he was booked on the warrant and summoned for unlawful possession of Schedule Z drugs.

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A snowmobiler received a surprise when he returned to his vehicle parked at Ripogenus Dam on Sunday.

Someone had stripped his 2003 GMC pickup truck of its headlight assembly and the front grill. Also taken from the truck were tools, ice traps, towrope and ice auger, according to Lt. Robert Young of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department.

Young said Deputy David Smiley, the investigating officer, also noted that the thief had attempted to remove the mirrors from the vehicle.

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Thieves broke into a Dwelley Avenue home in Dover-Foxcroft on Sunday and took three tablets of hydromorphine and 30 Duragesic patches, both prescribed for pain.

The break-in is under investigation by the Dover-Foxcroft Police Department, according to Lt. Scott Arno.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball