A Bangor man took the keys away from a motorist who witnesses said was speeding in downtown Bangor Sunday afternoon and nearly struck some people.

Bangor police Officer Steve Jordan found Darrell Curtis, 40, of Prospect sitting in his car with another man holding his car keys. Witnesses said that Curtis came barreling down the hill about 4:15 p.m. behind Bangor Savings Bank and nearly struck three people who were fishing the Kenduskeag Stream from the bridge, Bangor police Officer Rob Angelo reported. One man estimated Curtis’ speed at more than 40 mph.

The man who took the keys out of Curtis’ car said he had yelled at Curtis to slow down, only to have the motorist stop, get out of his car and come after him and his two children. The man said he managed to get Curtis turned around and headed back to the car where he took the keys.

Curtis was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants.

Banners welcoming the University of Maine campus community to the opening of the school year were taken from light poles in downtown Orono during the weekend.

The four university banners that included some with the word “welcome” on them and a U.S. flag were noticed missing from the poles along the Main Street bridge about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Orono police Sgt. Scott Scripture said.

The banners and flag were attached to the poles by couplings about 12 feet up, but Scripture said the banners and flag hung low enough that they could be grabbed and pulled down.

Afterward police kept an eye on the area in between calls in hopes of catching the culprits.

An Orono woman awoke early Monday morning to find a man in her apartment bedroom unhooking her Playstation game system.

Confronted about being there at about 2:20 a.m., the man said something about following someone over to the Washburn apartment and then fled, according to police. Following the fleeing man, the woman found her television set, which had been in her bedroom, at the top of the stairs.

The woman recognized the man as “Teddy” and told police she had talked to him a few hours earlier at Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Maine.

Orono police Officers Bob Sinclair and Chris Foxworthy went to the fraternity house. Edward Greeley II, 20, answered the door and matched the description the officers had been given.

Greeley admitted to being in the area of the burglary but told the officers he had been visiting friends, whose names he couldn’t give police.

The woman identified Greeley as the man she had seen in her apartment. He was charged with felony burglary and with illegal possession of alcohol by a minor.