The Unitarian Universalist Church of Bangor on Park Street was burglarized, with nearly $1,000 in cash and electronics taken over the weekend after a safe was forced open, according to police reports.

Bangor police continue to search for the person who apparently crawled through an unlocked window, kicked open the door to the church office and stole $400 from a petty cash box.

A minister at the church, who also reported her pocket organizer and its charger stolen, called police at 6:30 a.m. Sunday when she arrived to prepare for a picnic and found bandages strewn across the floor.

The burglar may have needed the bandages after being injured during the break-in, according to police.

The officer smelled burnt marijuana inside the church, which the pastor said was in order the previous morning, according to police reports.

Both the minister’s and a secretary’s desk appeared to have been rifled through, and a fire safe containing personnel files had been forced open.

The church recently terminated the employment of two men, including one involved in a labor dispute and another who had developed a drug and alcohol problem, according to reports.

The pocket organizer and charger were valued at $500, and damage to the office door and wall was estimated at $200.

Public safety personnel had to use bolt cutters to free a teenager from his handcuffs Saturday after police arrested him in connection with an apparent burglary in Bangor.

The teenager’s friend crawled through a window at his house on Blue Hill East after being locked out at 4:30 p.m., but a neighbor called police believing he had witnessed a break-in, according to police reports.

The neighbor provided a description and both young men were handcuffed after police caught up with them near the Down East School on Moosehead Boulevard, according to reports.

The teenager’s friend admitted to breaking into his own home and was released, but the key broke when police attempted to unlock the other boy’s handcuffs.

A Bangor Fire Department employee had to use bolt cutters to remove the handcuffs.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Jackie Farwell