A dog got his owner into a mess of trouble early Wednesday afternoon when a witness called Bangor police, complaining the owner wasn’t properly disposing of the dog’s waste in a city park, according to police reports.

The witness confronted Charles Ewer, 26, and asked him to clean up the black Lab’s feces before the police arrived.

According to police reports, when Ewer was approached by police he presented the brown paper bag with which he had disposed of the waste. The witness complained to police that he sees Ewer in the park all the time and he never picks up the feces.

Ewer was issued a summons for not picking up animal waste from a city park, according to police reports.

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A Brewer man called police when he noticed that six to eight pills of his prescription medication had disappeared early Wednesday afternoon, according to Sgt. Chris Martin of the Brewer Police Department.

The tranquilizer pills, similar to Valium, were taken from a private residence on Holyoke Street, but have not been recovered, Martin said.

There are no suspects.

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A Bangor woman backed a truck out of a Forest Avenue driveway Wednesday and struck a parked and unoccupied station wagon, according to police reports.

Shiante McManus, 19, was operating a friend’s vehicle without a license when she backed into the parked car. McManus has a Florida learner’s permit, but according to police reports she did not have a licensed driver in the vehicle at the time of the accident.

McManus drove the vehicle without her friend’s knowledge because she said she “didn’t want to walk to Hammond Street,” according to police reports.

McManus was issued a summons for operating without a license. The truck was towed and impounded.

– Compiled by BDN reporter Toni-Lynn Robbins