A Bangor man who fled one Bangor Mall store Friday with stolen items was found hiding in the restroom of another mall store and charged with theft.

Found in Sears, Jeremy Hunter, 32, was returned to Filene’s where a store employee identified five items that belonged to the store in a Gap bag Hunter was holding, reported Bangor police Officer Michael Brennan. Police officers discovered other items in the bag, including a single blue Adidas sneaker.

Hunter claimed he was returning the right-foot sneaker because the Shoe Department in the mall had sold him two of them. A store employee told Brennan that the store displays only right shoes and keep left-foot shoes locked up to curb thefts. The store also was missing a sneaker.

Brennan charged Hunter with theft and with possession of a Schedule Z drug, Clonidine, after a corrections officer at Penobscot County Jail discovered the yellow pill in Hunter’s possession. The prescription drug is used to treat high blood pressure and attention deficit disorder.

A motorist who drove through a yellow light on Stillwater Avenue in Bangor on Friday and rear-ended a car shouldn’t have been driving in the first place, according to police.

The license of Elizabeth Morrison, 25, of Bangor was suspended at the time of the accident early Friday afternoon, reported Bangor police Officer Michael Brennan. Morrison was heading north on Stillwater Avenue when she hit a vehicle driven by Mina Blair, 72, of Old Town who had stopped for traffic, Brennan reported. Both motorists complained of back pain. Brennan summoned Morrison for operating a motor vehicle after suspension.

A motorist rear-ended another vehicle as they tried to merge into traffic on Interstate 95 in Bangor Friday afternoon. The accident left both with some injuries and slowed traffic for a while.

Starsha Schiller, 22, of Calais was looking over her shoulder while trying to merge onto the northbound lane of I-95 at the Union Street on-ramp about 4:15 p.m. when she didn’t see that the car ahead of her on the ramp had stopped, state Trooper Darren Vittum said Friday.

Schiller rear-ended a car driven by Royce Wheeler, 79, of Bangor.

Wheeler injured his neck while Schiller suffered abrasions on her right arm and injuries from the air bag deploying, Vittum said. Traffic was reduced to one lane for about a half-hour to 45 minutes, the trooper said.

– COMPILED BY BDN REPORTER DOUG KESSELI