Fake $20s show up at two McDonald’s

A woman tried to pass off counterfeit money at two McDonald’s restaurants in Bangor Thursday, but was successful at only one.

The manager of the Broadway fast-food restaurant told police about 1:40 p.m. that it had been busy and a counterfeit $20 was accepted as payment.

The ruse was discovered too late, only after the manager from the Hogan Road restaurant called to report that a woman had tried unsuccessfully to pass off a phony $20 bill at that location.

When the Hogan Road manager told the woman he couldn’t take the bill, she grabbed it from his hands and fled, reported Bangor police Officer Chad Foley, who investigated both incidents.

The Hogan Road manager didn’t get the woman’s license plate number but did get a good description of her. He said that she was about 5 feet 7 inches tall with curly, shoulder-length strawberry blond hair pulled back and that she was wearing a short-sleeve shirt and jeans.

Foley had the counterfeit bill from the Broadway McDonald’s with him and the Hogan Road manager smiled when he was shown it. The bill had the pen marking his employee had put on it to determine that it was fake.

Bangor police arrested a Second Street woman early Thursday morning after she refused several times to quiet down.

When Bangor police Officer Dennis Townsend arrived at the apartment building about 5:45 a.m., a second-floor window was wide open and the sounds of loud music and a woman yelling could be heard easily from outside, according to the police report.

The resident had been given a disorderly conduct warning earlier by a different police officer and Townsend asked her to quiet down again.

Townsend reported that Kelly Seeley, 26, didn’t cooperate and instead approached him with her hands out, asking to be arrested.

The officer asked her several times to comply, but when she didn’t he arrested her, about the same time as other residents in the apartment building were coming out into the hallway.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Doug Kesseli