Two teens summoned in shopping cart thefts

Four teens in a black truck kept driving in and out of the Brewer Wal-Mart Supercenter’s parking lot around 1 a.m. Wednesday. They made employees so nervous that they were up to something that the police were called.

Several Brewer police officers arrived at the scene. Officer Rodney Gerald questioned the teens about why they were in the parking lot at that time of the night and what they were doing with shopping carts in the back of the 2006 GMC pickup, Capt. Jason Moffitt said.

One of the teens said they found them, and another said they didn’t know where to return the carts, which had logos on them from Wal-Mart and another Wilson Street business.

Shawn Chapman, 18, of Hermon and a 17-year-old Carmel male were given summonses for theft. The juvenile’s parents were called and the other two people in the truck were not charged. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)

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Members of the Bangor Police Department’s bomb squad responded about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a suspicious bag left at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, 144 York St. According to Sgt. Larry Weber, the officers X-rayed the bag and determined that it was “just a beach bag full of stuff for the beach.”