A domestic dispute at 12:37 a.m. Dec. 4 led to the arrest of Patrick Geel, 20, of Perry, and the unexpected discovery of drugs hidden in a ceiling at an Old Town home.

Geel and his girlfriend had gotten into an argument that escalated. Geel said that his girlfriend was yelling at him and he had to grab her wrists to prevent her from hitting him. The woman said that Geel pushed her, grabbed her wrists, held her up against the wall and wouldn’t let her go.

When police arrived, they found that the woman had red marks on her arms. Three of Geel’s male friends who witnessed the dispute refused to give a statement.

One officer noticed a small plastic bag containing a usable amount of marijuana that had been tucked into some sheets pinned to the ceiling. Officers then searched the home and found a bong and rolling papers.

Geel was arrested and charged with domestic assault, possession of a usable amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

An unknown vandal smashed the front windshield of a Bangor man’s truck on Second Street with a large piece of tar the night of Dec. 3, causing an estimated $300 in damage.

After Cynthia Cram, 48, address unknown, was stopped on Dec. 4 for allegedly shoplifting four DVDs, a bottle of Advil and a bottle of glucosamine from the Hannaford supermarket on Broadway in Bangor, she told the store’s loss prevention officer that she was going to give the items away as Christmas presents.

The items totaled $87.22. Cram was issued a summons for theft.

Firefighters investigating a report of a possible fire at a two-unit home at 154 Center St., Old Town on Sunday evening found that a fuse had shorted out. The building’s six residents were evacuated while the electrical problem was found and fixed.

Officers who went to Lynn Martin’s North Main Street residence in Brewer to issue her a summons for violation of bail conditions found a usable amount of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a Schedule W pill, and a piece of cellophane with a suspicious residue of white powder smeared on it.

Martin, 27, was arrested and charged with violating her conditions of release and possession of a Schedule W drug.

A Bangor man from Brown Street reported that an intruder had broken into his apartment and stolen his $600 DVD collection, including complete seasons of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” and “Highlander.”

A neighbor had seen a dark-haired white male of average build leave the apartment at about noon Dec. 3 carrying a large brown bag.

There were no signs of damage in the apartment, and it appeared that nothing else had been taken.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Abigail Curtis