An Orrington motorist who hit several parked cars on Union Street in Bangor on Thursday and then kept driving later told police that he left the accident scene so that he could call for a wrecker.

Robert W. Taylor, 38, drove off after hitting four vehicles and missing a fifth car, but not before a witness got a good view of the pickup truck he was driving, including the license plate that read: RTAYLOR. Three of the motor vehicles were empty at the time, but a driver was still in one and she complained of neck pain, reported Bangor police Officer James Dearing.

Another Bangor police officer stopped the pickup truck a few blocks away at the Shaw’s Supermarket on Main Street. Taylor told police that he drove to Main Street so that he could call for a tow truck.

He was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, possession of Schedule Z drugs, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Two men wanted in Rhode Island on a firearms-related charge who were arrested in Penobscot County have waived extradition and could be returned to that state as early as Monday.

Wilfred Descy, 20, and Shawn Senay, 26, both of Woonsocket, R.I., were arrested early Monday morning in Newport after they apparently ran out of gas. They were headed to visit one of their family members in Corinna. Local authorities were alerted that they might be headed that way.

Newport police Officer Kevin Wintle and Deputy Josh Tibbetts of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office were on the lookout for them. Tibbetts was set up on Route 7, although it was Wintle who noticed two men at the Mobile gas station off Interstate 95 in Newport.

Tibbetts and Wintle went to investigate, and although the two men weren’t cooperative at first, the law enforcement officers determined their identities and arrested them.

Each man was wanted on a warrant for larceny of a firearm. The firearm was a shotgun taken during one of 20 to 30 burglaries the pair committed with two other men in Cumberland, R.I., said Detective Sgt. Al Skeldon of the Cumberland Police Department. Descy and Senay remain at Penobscot County Jail, although Skeldon said they could be extradited on Monday.

A Hampden man who was summoned for driving a car with a suspended registration late Thursday night drove to the Bangor police station to talk with police and was summoned again on the same charge.

Jarold J. Curtis III, 21, was driving a 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo about 10:30 p.m. when he was stopped by Bangor police because the car’s registration was suspended. After stopping Curtis, Bangor police Officer Brandon Vafiades issued him a summons and let him drive away with the warning that he was to go right home.

About 20 minutes later, Curtis walked into the police station seeking to talk to police about the summons. After speaking with Sgt. Thomas Reagan, who had first spotted Curtis driving the car, Curtis left, denying to police that he had driven there.

Outside, Officer Steve Jordan watched as Curtis pulled away from the curb in the same Monte Carlo. Jordan motioned for Curtis to stop and then to come back to the police station, where the officer handed Curtis another summons for the suspended registration.

The driver of a Pearson Heating Oil truck backed into a telephone pole on Fourteenth Street in Bangor late Friday morning, snapping the pole. The impact also pushed the severed utility pole about three feet. Damage to the pole was estimated at $3,000, although the truck was undamaged.

An Old Town police officer crossed paths with a Bangor man twice Friday morning – the first time to call him a cab because he had been drinking at a bar.

The second time, the officer arrested the man, who was not only driving while intoxicated, but speeding, police said. Aaron Young, 25, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and given a ticket for speeding 73 mph in a 45-mph zone.

Old Town police Officer Seth Burnes was running radar on Main Street shortly before 3 a.m. when a Nissan Maxima driven by Young sped past him. Burnes stopped the car just over the city line into Orono. Young failed field sobriety tests and was taken to the Orono Police Department, where he refused to take the Intoxilyzer test, Burnes said.

About an hour or two before his arrest, Young had approached Burnes at the Number 10 Main Street bar and asked if the officer could call a cab for him. The officer did, but the officer surmised that the cab may not have arrived.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli