Wanting an even deeper discount at Marden’s in Brewer on Thursday, an Orono man allegedly switched price tags on two items and returned a short time later to purchase them, only to be caught by police.

Brewer police officers were called to the store around 5 p.m. after a store employee reported seeing Carlo Pinto, 24, of Orono switch tags on two posters.

Brewer police Cpl. Levi Sewall, one of the officers present, said Friday the tag switch dropped the posters’ price from $3.59 each to two for $2. Pinto set aside the posters and left the store, claiming he needed to get his wallet.

Returning a few minutes later, he purchased the posters and left, but was taken into custody outside the Wilson Street store where Sewall and Officer Roger Hershey were waiting for him.

Authorities discovered that Pinto also left the store with items hidden in his clothing, including candle holders and an inflation kit for basketballs, and that he had someone else’s prescription medicine on him, Sewall said. Pinto’s license was suspended, even though he had driven to the store, according to police.

Authorities charged Pinto with theft by deception, operating a motor vehicle after suspension, and possession of Xanax, a Schedule Z drug.

Bangor police went looking late on Thursday for a man wanted on three warrants and found him and another man who was wanted on five warrants.

Heading to a Rangeley Place residence about 9:45 p.m., Bangor police Officers Eric Tourtelotte and David Bushey intended to take Benjamin Miller, 31, into custody on the warrants, including one issued from 3rd District Court in Bangor, for failure to appear in court on an assault charge.

Knocking on the door, Bushey was greeted by Jeffrey Mercier, 35, of Bangor who claimed he hadn’t seen Miller. A computer check of records revealed Mercier was wanted on five warrants, and he was taken into custody.

Inside the home, a woman who told police Miller was the father of her daughter, also denied Miller was there, telling Tourtelotte she hadn’t seen him for a while. She allowed the officers to search the home.

Children were sleeping in two of the three upstairs bedrooms, and Miller, who bears a tear tattoo by his left eye, was sleeping in the third bedroom, according to police.

An Orono man that bouncers wanted removed from the Ushuaia nightclub in Orono was arrested when he returned a few minutes after being warned to leave.

David Clark, 21, of Bangor was charged with criminal trespass and with refusing to sign a universal summons and complaint when he was issued the summons at Penobscot County Jail.

Clark caught the attention of Orono police Officers Scott Lajoie and Jason Zalva after the Bangor man was apparently urinating in the nightclub’s parking lot, according to police.

As the officers spoke to Clark, bouncers from inside came out and asked the police to send the man on his way, saying he was not welcome there.

About five minutes after he was warned to leave, Clark tried to get back into the bar, according to police.

– Compiled by BDN reporter

Doug Kesseli