Brewer’s ‘Most Wanted’ arrested in Veazie

VEAZIE – Transient Ricky Block appeared on the Brewer Police Department’s “Most Wanted” list but the 38-year-old man was wanted in many other communities as well.

Block remained at Penobscot County Jail on Monday night on a probation hold, although he has been implicated in burglaries and crimes in Bangor, Brewer, Veazie and Alton and perhaps other locations, according to police.

Brewer police linked him to the Oct. 13 daylight burglary of Brewer businesses and placed his picture and information on the “Most Wanted” section of the department’s Web site.

On Friday, two days after the Brewer burglaries, Block was stopped in Veazie by police investigating a disorderly conduct complaint. Block was a passenger in a car police stopped but claimed his name was Levi Paxton.

Authorities let him go, but Veazie police Sgt. Keith Emery remained suspicious, according to police. When authorities learned Paxton was not his name, they were on the lookout for him. The car he had been a passenger in was spotted at the Veazie Variety Store about 8:45 p.m. that same night. Authorities stopped the car and talked to Paxton, who now claimed his name was Levi Paxton Marvel.

He even showed police a California birth certificate that contained only the last name Marvel, no first or middle name, said Veazie Police Chief Mark Leonard. He told police his parents didn’t know what to name him so they left it blank.

A Maine driver’s license inside a wallet that Block hid in one of his socks and later tried to hide in the back seat of a police cruiser revealed the man’s identity as Ricky Block.

Leonard said officers also found a small amount of cocaine, prescription pills as well as stolen credit cards, checks, a stolen briefcase, laptop computer and other items that linked the man to burglaries in the Bangor area.

Block allegedly used stolen credit cards and checks to make hundreds of dollars in purchases, some of which police confiscated. Block also had a key to a Brewer motel where authorities knew he had been staying. Some items in Block’s possession hadn’t been reported missing at the time Block was taken into custody.

“We solved some cases that hadn’t even been reported yet,” Leonard said Monday.

In addition to the probation violation, Veazie police have summoned Block on charges of possession of a Schedule W drug, cocaine; receiving stolen property and failure to give his correct name. Brewer police charged him with two counts of burglary and theft and one count of aggravated criminal mischief for the damage he did during one of the break-ins, said Brewer police Sgt. Jason Moffitt.

The Gold Star Cleaners and the Insurance Shoppers businesses on Wilson Street were both broken into, their rear doors pried open on Oct. 13.

Block was one of a half-dozen people wanted by Brewer police and featured on Brewer’s Web site, www.Brewerpolice.org.