November 08, 2024
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Woman accused of using stroller in store theft

Bangor police charged a woman with theft after she allegedly hid clothes in a stroller and rolled them out of J.C. Penney at the Bangor Mall on Monday afternoon.

Officer Jason McAmbley reported that at about 3:45 p.m. he went to J.C. Penney after a report of a shoplifter in custody. A security worker there told him Tracey Scott, 20, of Bangor was seen taking an armful of clothes into a fitting room.

When Scott left the fitting room, the worker said, she wasn’t carrying as much. She placed what she had back on the racks. A worker looked in the fitting room and found some empty clothes hangers. Price tags were found in the pocket of one pair of shorts Scott had returned to the rack.

A worker stopped Scott in the mall. The missing merchandise, priced at a total of $303.92, was found hidden in her infant daughter’s stroller. Scott was charged with theft.

An Eddington woman was hospitalized after she drove off the road in Brewer on Tuesday afternoon.

Brewer police Officer Nelson Feero said the 50-year-old woman experienced a medical problem and her car crossed North Main Street at about 4:30 p.m., striking a utility pole and a mailbox. She was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Police were unsure whether the woman, whose name has not been released, suffered any injuries from the collision itself. She was unresponsive at the scene. The accident still is under investigation.

Brewer police summoned a woman after she allegedly stole a pregnancy test from Wal-Mart on Tuesday afternoon.

Officer Nelson Feero said that at about 3:30 p.m. he was called to Wal-Mart on Wilson Street for a shoplifting complaint. Security said they saw Janice Logan, 50, of Clifton remove the pregnancy test from its package and conceal it in her pocket. Logan said a friend had asked her to obtain a pregnancy test for her because the friend was too embarrassed to purchase it herself. Logan said she also was too embarrassed to buy the test.

She was summoned for theft.

A Bangor man reportedly left his apartment for half an hour Sunday afternoon and returned to find a firearm and some CDs missing.

Bangor police Officer Marty McCrea reported that a man told him he left his Jefferson Street apartment with the door locked at about 4:30 p.m. When the man returned, he told McCrea, the door was ajar. He was missing 10 CDs, along with a new Jennings 9 mm semiautomatic handgun with nickel plating, worth $132.

There are no suspects at this time, McCrea said, but the man believed his apartment was being watched.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball


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