Veazie police investigate store burglary

Veazie police are investigating a break-in at the Veazie Variety Store on State Street late Sunday night or early Monday morning.

The burglar or burglars got away with an undisclosed amount of money from the store, Sgt. Keith Emery of the Veazie Police Department reported. It didn’t appear that anything else was taken, although police are still investigating.

The break-in was noticed shortly after 3 a.m. Monday by a motor route driver with the Bangor Daily News, and authorities were contacted. The store was open for business that same day.

Anyone with information can contact Veazie police through the Penobscot Regional Communications Center at 945-4636.

A verbal argument Sunday turned physical between a Hampden woman and her live-in boyfriend and ended with the man leaving but not before driving over some flower pots on the lawn.

Andy Paul Cookson, 25, was charged with assault, obstructing the report of a crime and criminal mischief in connection with the incident at his girlfriend’s home early Sunday afternoon. Cookson was arguing with the woman when he grabbed her wrist and prevented her from leaving the home, reported Hampden police Officer Joel Small.

When the woman tried to call the police, Cookson allegedly grabbed the phone from her and smashed it. Cookson left the home in his pickup truck, drove over the woman’s front lawn and ran over two large flower pots, according to police. Cookson was located Sunday evening at the residence and was arrested.

A Glenburn man stopped by a Bangor police officer late Friday night after pulling into a Union Street driveway held his arms out as if to be handcuffed and told the officer “I don’t have a license.”

Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan said Monday that shortly before 11 p.m. June 10, James Malcolm Burgess Jr., 30, accelerated hard through the blinking yellow light at the intersection of Hammond and Union streets. Jordan, who had pulled up to the intersection from the opposite direction, turned around to follow Burgess, pulling into a driveway behind him.

Burgess’s license was under suspension and the Glenburn man held out his arms for the officer to arrest him. Jordan suspected that Burgess was intoxicated, and field sobriety tests were done at Penobscot County Jail. Burgess also was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

In separate incidents in Bangor early Monday morning, a man narrowly escaped being hit with a thrown egg on Franklin Street while more than 28 cars parked at Bangor High School later that same day weren’t so fortunate.

A man standing on Franklin Street reported at 1:41 a.m. that an egg thrown from a red Chevrolet Neon came within a foot of hitting him. Bangor police Officer David Bushey found the car on Main Street near Walter Street and stopped it. Passenger Joseph Bolt, 22, of Bangor eventually admitted to throwing the egg, and Bushey summoned him on a charge of disorderly conduct. Bushey confiscated six eggs that came in a package of a dozen eggs.

Later Monday morning, shortly before 10 a.m., the assistant principal of Bangor High School contacted police to report that 28 cars had been egged in an apparent prank, reported Bangor police Officer William Lawrence.

No damage was reported and the vehicles were washed. Three of the vehicles were identified as potentially being involved in the incident. Later that morning, a man came into the police station to tell Officer Marty McCrea that his car had been parked in the student parking lot and had been egged as well as dented. The cost of the damage was estimated at $250.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli