Bangor police charged a local woman Tuesday with theft after it was reported that she left the Shaw’s supermarket concealing stain remover and parrot food.

An employee of the Main Street store reported seeing Traci Kelly, 35, of Bangor hide a $2.99 bottle of stain remover in her sleeve and a $3.69 container of parrot food in her jacket. After a brief stop in the bathroom, Kelly grabbed some flowers, valued at $5.99 before heading out of the store with another woman, who was not charged, reported Bangor police Officer Dennis Lally.

The employee confronted Kelly who left the flowers at the register then tried to leave in a taxicab, but the employee put a stop to that, telling the cabdriver to hold on until the police arrived. Kelly then tried to hide the parrot food under the cabdriver’s seat, according to the police report.

A Bangor motorist was summoned for passing a stopped school bus on Forest Avenue early Wednesday morning and given warnings for several other violations.

A bus was moving up to drop off children at the Abraham Lincoln School at 8:48 a.m. when B. Jay Miles, 23, of Bangor pulled past it in a green Ford pickup truck, reported Bangor police Officer Michael Brennan.

Miles told the officer that he didn’t see the lights because there was another school bus stopped in front of it.

The bus driver who was passed said the stop sign that swings out from the bus was working properly and that the flashing red lights on the bus were on before Miles passed him. The bus driver said he honked the horn at the driver, then saw that the police were there taking care of it.

Brennan summoned Miles on a charge of passing a stopped school bus and warned him for not having a current inspection sticker, not having a front license plate and for misuse of an amber light in his vehicle.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli