An employee of the Sea Dog restaurant who left his vehicle at work on Friday because he didn’t want to drive home intoxicated reported to police Saturday that his 1995 Chevy Lumina van had been stolen.

The employee told Bangor police Officer James Dearing that sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon, the van was taken. The keys were left in the ignition. The man took a taxi home late Friday because he had been drinking.

Dearing’s police report stated that the van, valued at $2,500, had not been towed. There were no suspects as of Sunday.

The vehicle has Maine license plate No. 9834 HP and has stickers for Sugarloaf and the Bangor YMCA on the bumper.

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A transient was arrested late Saturday at a Bangor nightclub when he tried to steal Jell-O shots from an employee and then harassed customers, police said.

Bangor police Officer Dennis Townsend, who was working a detail at Barnaby’s on Odlin Road, responded to a disturbance and ordered Kent Seigfreidt to leave or he would be arrested.

Seigfreidt then put his hands behind his back and dared the officer to arrest him, Townsend’s report stated. The officer obliged.

Seigfreidt was charged with criminal trespassing and warned not to return to Barnaby’s for one year.

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A Bangor resident who left the door to his Ohio Street apartment unlocked Saturday night was relieved of his 27-inch television and a DVD player.

The man reportedly left at about 7 p.m. and returned shortly before 1 a.m. to find that someone had come into his home. The items were valued at approximately $400, police said

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A Bangor man reportedly tried to steal a 30-pack of beer from a Brewer grocery store because “he was thirsty,” police said.

Randall Tomah, 41, tried to walk out of the Hannaford supermarket without paying for the beer, police said. When employees confronted him, he set the beer down and went outside, where Brewer Cpl. Rich Smith was waiting for him.

Tomah admitted to taking the beer and was issued a summons for theft.

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A Holden police officer who pulled over a suspicious vehicle Sunday evening on U.S. Route 1A in Dedham charged two people with drug-related offenses.

Officer Chris Greeley followed a car from a gas station into Dedham and watched it pull to the shoulder suddenly to turn down a side road. Greeley then initiated a traffic stop.

After a brief conversation, the driver, Randi-Lee Littlefield, 20, of Indian Island, admitted that she had a small amount of marijuana and a pipe, police said. She was charged with possession of a usable amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. A passenger, Jason Lambert, 20, of Holden, also allegedly had a small pipe and was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Eric Russell