Bangor police responded to a report of a man “taking a swing” at a bartender at Carolina Sports & Spirits on Union Street early Sunday morning.

Officer Kerry Libby caught up to Craig Sawyer, 48, as he walked under the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge overpass and reported that the Glenburn man reeked of alcohol.

Sawyer was asked to show his ID. He obliged, Libby reported, but soon became “uncooperative and belligerent.” He accused the officers of harassment and said that the bartender’s word “meant more than his.”

Sawyer was given a disorderly conduct warning and told he was free to go. He began walking away, but after 30 feet turned around, start walking back and yell at the officers. He was told to leave or go to Penobscot County Jail.

Sawyer started walking toward Main Street, stopped, turned in the middle of the road and resumed yelling while making an obscene gesture, police said.

Officer Libby and his partner approached Sawyer while he continued to yell and arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.

An alleged shoplifter learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that he can’t outrun the long arm of J.C. Penney of Bangor.

Michael Goupee, 28, of Bangor was seen stuffing $100 worth of T-shirts into his pants pockets in the department store, police said. A loss prevention officer confronted him when he tried to leave.

Goupee refused to cooperate and made a failed attempt to flee, police said. He was apprehended and turned over to the Bangor Police Department.

Goupee, who was out on bail at the time of the incident, was sent to Penobscot County Jail and charged with a felony because of his long history of theft convictions, police said.

The William S. Cohen School on Garland Street in Bangor was vandalized sometime between Thursday evening and Friday morning, police said. A custodian discovered several obscene messages criticizing the school painted on the side of the building. No one has been charged with the incident.

– Compiled by Michael Hartwell of the BDN staff