A taxicab was stolen from Bangor and wrecked on Interstate 95 in the early morning hours of Saturday, leaving the alleged thief, Donald Joseph, in serious condition at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, authorities said.

The green 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis was owned by Dick’s Taxi and worth an estimated $5,000. It was stolen from 547 Hammond St. between 3 a.m. and 3:47 a.m. Saturday.

Joseph, 37, of Bangor allegedly stole the cab while it was parked outside the cab company’s headquarters.

While driving the car north on I-95 in Veazie, Joseph careened off the right shoulder, went into a ditch, struck and broke a number of trees, and was ejected from the vehicle, state police said.

Joseph suffered a broken pelvis during the accident.

“It appears that alcohol and speed may be factors,” Trooper Seth Edwards of Maine State Police Troop E said Sunday night.

Officers took a blood sample from Joseph at the hospital and sent it to a laboratory to determine his blood alcohol level. Results of the test will be back in two weeks, Edwards said.

An Arizona couple who recently moved to Orono have been keeping police busy with domestic violence calls.

Phyllis Goodrich, 43, now of Noyes Drive, was arrested and charged with domestic violence on Dec. 19 after she allegedly pushed and threatened her boyfriend and broke a pane of glass in the bedroom.

All parties in that altercation were intoxicated, according to police.

A 911 hang-up call was received from the Noyes Drive residence at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Operators heard a woman screaming in the background of the call.

Responding officers found three men at the residence who said that the situation was now under control.

Police asked where the screaming woman was, and the men said it was Goodrich, and she was in the basement.

As police began to search the basement, the men told them that there were guns, rifle bullets and clips stored down there.

“We backed out of the basement and called for more assistance,” Officer Scott Wilcox of the Orono police said Sunday night.

Police from Old Town, Veazie and an Orono K-9 unit arrived to secure the residence.

The dog located Goodrich in the basement. Police said they searched her for firearms and found none, but she had been drinking, which violated her bail conditions.

Goodrich’s blood alcohol level was tested and found to be 0.20 percent, police said.

She was arrested, charged with violation of bail conditions, and transported to Penobscot County Jail.

An office worker entering Wellspring Inc. at 6 a.m. Thursday alerted police that a burglar apparently had been at that office and several others at 51 Broadway and 106 Pine, Bangor police said.

The intruder apparently entered through an emergency fire door and pried open 13 doors in the Wellspring office area, causing $3,500 to $4,500 in damage. A camcorder and the office safe, containing about $100, were stolen from Wellspring, which provides substance abuse services.

Police said the burglar continued the crime spree with stops at Bangor Dental Lab, where a $995 Dental Eye III 35 mm camera was stolen; PC Systems, where a laptop computer was stolen; and Shugars and Lynch Appraisal Services Inc., where a digital camera was stolen.

The burglaries are under investigation.

A trail of water cascading out of an apartment at 1 Evergreen Drive in Orono at 10:45 p.m. Saturday led police to an illegal drug paraphernalia find.

Police responded to a report of broken pipes at that residence and found water running right out of the building. They contacted the landlord, who opened up two first-floor apartments because of the emergency. The group found a broken water heater in one apartment and a water bong with marijuana residue on the floor in the other, Orono police said.

“The tenant hasn’t come home yet,” Officer Scott Wilcox said Sunday night. “When he comes home, he’ll be charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.”

Brewer police seized $150 worth of assorted fireworks and Roman candles from a man who allegedly planned to celebrate Christmas night with a bang.

Robert Hall, 20, of Brewer was observed by Officer Nelson Feero to be loitering in his vehicle behind the closed North Brewer Shopping Center at 10:15 p.m. Saturday.

Upon questioning, Hall allegedly told Feero he planned to light off the fireworks.

The officer confiscated the stash and Hall was summonsed for possession of fireworks.

Bangor police were alerted Christmas night that a green Ford pickup truck was erratically driving southbound on Interstate 95.

An officer followed Brian Smith, 41, of Hermon down Union Street at 8:49 p.m. Saturday and watched as he crossed and recrossed the centerline, police said. The officer said he stopped Smith, smelled a strong odor of alcohol from inside the truck, and asked how much the Hermon man had drunk that night, police said. Smith replied “too much,” according to police reports.

Smith failed field sobriety tests and was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.23 percent, police said. He was arrested and charged with operating under the influence.

The attack on a woman walking to her car in the Broadway Hannaford supermarket parking lot Dec. 23 by an unknown assailant remains a mystery three days later, Bangor police said Sunday evening.

No new attacks have been reported, but no useful information has either, according to Sgt. Paul Edwards.

“We’ve had a couple of calls, but it’s just sketchy stuff,” he said. “It’s nothing of any substance.”

Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the Bangor Police Department at 947-7384.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Abigail Curtis