Indian Island man, 41, accused of terrorizing

An Indian Island man with a history of domestic violence was charged with terrorizing his ex-girlfriend Saturday night.

When Alan Francis, 41, had visited his ex-girlfriend’s trailer uninvited, her juvenile son called the police saying he and his mother wanted Francis to leave.

Officers Tom Tardiff and Bobby Pelletier of the Old Town Police Department found Francis and told him that if he came back to the trailer, he would be charged with criminal trespass.

Francis then called her and threatened to kill the woman, according to police reports. The officers arrested him and transported him to Penobscot County Jail, where he remained on Sunday night.

Two women were caught shoplifting jogging pants and nightwear from J.C. Penney’s on Saturday evening.

A loss prevention officer saw Shayna Thurston, 24, of Brewer, and Angela S. Young, no age or address given, enter a changing room with some empty-looking shopping bags. He heard them ripping tags off clothes, stuffing the items into bags, and making incriminating statements, according to police reports.

When the friends emerged from the changing room, the officer noticed that the shopping bags were now bulging with items. The women proceeded into a bathroom, where a female store employee who had followed them heard more ripping and snapping of tags.

Thurston was caught at the door, but Young escaped. Officers tracked her to a Pine Street apartment where she admitted stealing a black robe, a red nightgown and a white coat with a furlike collar.

Young claimed she had thrown the clothing out her car window. Police could not find the missing garments, but did issue each woman a summons for theft.

A University of Maine student who attended a concert at the Bangor Auditorium found herself short one $100 cell phone at the end of the event. The student reported her silver Kyocera cell phone stolen Saturday afternoon. Officers had no leads.

A Cooper man parked in the lot of the Spectacular Events Center in Bangor opened his car door at the wrong time and caused hundreds of dollars of damage to his and another vehicle.

The man, who was attending a wedding reception at the venue, opened the door of his 2002 Chevrolet as a Ford van driven by a Winterport man drove by. The van received $800 in damage. The Chevrolet received $1,000 in damage. No one was injured in the accident.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Abigail Curtis