Bangor man charged with forging checks

A 19-year-old Bangor man was charged with seven counts of forgery this week after it was reported he stole checks from the Bangor West Side Little League, wrote the checks out to himself and then cashed them.

Eric Clifford had taken the checks from his father’s house where they were kept and from Aug. 31 to Sept. 7 forged his father’s signature on seven checks and cashed them at several convenience stores, a market and a supermarket, according to police reports. The checks totaled $456.79, according to Bangor police Officer Marty McCrea.

On Thursday, the officer confronted Eric Clifford, who admitted forging the checks. His father confirmed that the signature on the checks was not his. Clifford was summoned to appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Oct. 21.

A Hannaford security official reported seeing a woman try to leave two Hannaford supermarkets on Thursday with a cart full of groceries without paying for them.

The first time was at the Broadway store, where the manager confronted Christine A. Page, 18, of Corinth after she had bypassed all the cash registers. The woman claimed she had left the money in her pickup truck and needed to get it, according to the police report.

Page left the store, but didn’t return. Later, the same security official saw the woman at the Union Street store, also with a cartload of food and heading out of the store.

When confronted, she again claimed to have left her money in the pickup truck. This time she claimed she only had $60, well below the $259 the groceries added up to, reported Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan. Page was charged with theft.

A Hammond Street resident reported to Bangor police on Thursday that a neighbor came banging on her door half- dressed and asked her to call the police because she needed help.

When Bangor police Officer Dennis Townsend went to the apartment of the woman seeking help, no one would come to the door at first.

After more officers arrived and more attempts to get a response were made, the woman came to the door and let police inside.

She told Townsend she and James Lebreck argued earlier and that he had pushed her into the couch, according to police reports. After going for help, she returned and Lebreck grabbed her by the throat and when the police arrived he told her not to answer the door and to be quiet.

Townsend found Lebreck on the floor and arrested him, charging him with domestic assault.

An Eddington man was arrested Thursday evening for operating under the influence of intoxicants after he reportedly drove his car through a dead-end street in Holden and ended up in the woods.

Larry Giles, 59, told Holden police Officer Chris Greeley that he was trying to drive home but got lost along the way.

After he drove his car off the road, Giles knocked on the door of a nearby home. That prompted the residents to call police because they noticed the man had been drinking, Greeley said.

The officer said foggy weather conditions Thursday could have been a factor, but Giles’ blood alcohol level was 0.22 percent, nearly three times the legal limit.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Doug Kesseli and Eric Russell.