September 21, 2024
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Bangor police see link in city car burglaries

Bangor police responded Monday morning to three separate overnight car burglaries, although it wasn’t known if the incidents were related.

Police went to an Essex Street apartment where a woman told them her wallet with $15, credit cards, her driver’s license and her Social Security card were missing from her locked car. Police found no signs of forced entry, according to the police report.

On nearby Grove Street, a Hampden woman reported that her car, too, had been broken into overnight, but nothing was missing. She said she knew someone had entered the car, because she found a cigarette burn on her seat that wasn’t there earlier.

Police were also called Monday to a Sanford Street apartment when a woman reported items missing from her unlocked car.

The Bangor woman told Officer Paul Colley that her $120 leather purse, checkbook, driver’s license and credit cards were taken. From the same car, a Bangor man reported his wallet with $3, military identification card, driver’s license and Social Security card all were missing.

Police have no leads, but Sgt. Ed Potter said the cases may be related due to the proximity of Essex and Grove streets, but the Sanford Street incident complicated the matter.

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Two Bangor women reported Monday afternoon that their red 1995 Mazda pickup truck was stolen after they parked it beside the University College of Bangor fitness building on Texas Avenue.

The truck, worth an estimated $2,500, was unlocked with the keys in it when it was allegedly stolen, according to the police report. A witness told police that at 1:30 p.m., she saw a white male wearing a tie-dyed shirt drive off, the report stated.

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Two kayaks were reported stolen from a camp on the Hudson Road in Hudson recently. Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean McCue was called to the camp in the early afternoon of July 30 and told that the two kayaks, worth about $400 each, were taken sometime between July 25 and that day.

– Compiled by BDN reporters Tim Robertson and Doug Kesseli


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