A maroon Dodge Stratus involved in a car accident in Bangor on Monday was the same vehicle seen leaving a Broadway convenience store two days earlier, its driver not having paid for pumped gas.

The driver, Viktor J. Warhola, 21, of Bangor, was summoned for theft Monday by Bangor police Officer Douglas Moore, who also had taken the theft complaint on March 5 from the Broadway Irving Mainway. A store clerk reported that the motorist didn’t pay for the $31.56 in gas he pumped, while a helpful motorist followed the maroon car, taking down its license plate for police.

At the accident scene, Moore questioned Warhola, who denied being at the gas station on the day in question.

A man walked into the Irving Mainway store in Old Town early Friday morning and asked the clerk where the napkins were.

The clerk told him where they could be found, on the counter, but the man apparently had other plans. The clerk told Old Town police Officer Lori Renzullo that the man took a copy of the Penobscot Times newspaper, wiped his face with it and then walked out of the store with it.

The newspaper was found balled up in the parking lot and the clerk was able to take down the license plate of the car. Renzullo contacted the car’s owner who told the officer her daughter had been driving the car, so now police are trying to locate her.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli