A security guard was caught rifling through cars at a construction site parking lot he had been hired to keep an eye on, according to police.

Bangor police charged 35-year-old David Chandler of Brewer with burglary of a motor vehicle Friday night after a fellow employee who had been told to watch the security guard allegedly caught Chandler inside a car where money had been planted.

Chandler had been hired as security for a construction project at a retirement home at 922 Ohio St. The building contractor suspected that Chandler had taken several items from the site a week earlier. On Friday the contractor photocopied $15 in several bills and placed them inside the car, Detective Larry Ellis reported. He then had another employee watch Chandler. The employee told Ellis he saw Chandler enter the vehicle and take the money from the center console. He said Chandler also rifled through a coat and opened the trunk.

The contractor was notified and confronted Chandler on site, showing the security guard a photocopy of the $10 bill and five $1 bills he had placed in the car. Chandler admitted to taking the money, Ellis reported, and the serial numbers on the $10 bill and three $1 bills Chandler had in his possession matched the photocopies.

Bangor police Sgt. Thomas J. Reagan received a call around 9 p.m. Saturday from a woman who reported that she was in Holden, but who claimed that earlier in the evening she had been assaulted by her estranged boyfriend, Jamie Judkins of Bangor, at her home at 31 Langley St.

She said she was in Holden to get away from Judkins, but he had followed her there. She alleged that Judkins had choked her and hit her, and that she sent her daughter to a neighbor’s house to call a friend for a ride out of town. She said her friend was a taxi driver but would not identify him, and that he took her and her daughter to the Woodland Terrace in Holden. She said Judkins had followed them there in her car and that when he arrived he opened the hood and somehow disabled the car. Then he went into her room and locked the door, she said. Sgt. Reagan contacted Deputy James Ellis of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department and advised him that if he thought there was probable cause for the assault in Bangor, then he could arrest Judkins. Authorities located Judkins at the motel. After police knocked on the motel door, Judkins came out and was arrested without incident on a charge of assault.

Early Tuesday morning Bangor police officers were involved in a high-speed chase with a motorcyclist.

Patrolman James Hassard reported that at 2:09 a.m. Tuesday, he was driving onto Interstate 95 northbound at Union Street when a motorcycle passed him on the ramp. “I estimated that the motorcycle was going 90 miles per hour,” said Hassard.

“I attempted to catch up to this motorcycle as we passed the Broadway exit and I turned on my emergency lights to try to stop the motorcycle.” He said it was doing 95 mph plus at that point. “The motorcycle began to pull away. I turned on my siren and radioed dispatch of the pursuit. The motorcycle exited I-95 at the Hogan Road exit.”

The motorcyclist failed to stop for the flashing red light at the exit and again ran a flashing red light at the Hogan Road and Bangor Mall Boulevard continuing straight on Hogan Road, then right on Stillwater Avenue.

“I lost sight of the motorcycle on Stillwater Avenue. When I crested the hill behind Home Depot, the motorcycle was out of sight. I continued straight out Stillwater Avenue and requested another unit to check the area near Home Depot. I turned off all my emergency equipment and continued on Stillwater until the Chase Road where I turned around,” said Hassard.

“As I approached the intersection of Stillwater and Longview Drive I looked up Ridgewood Drive and saw a motorcycle headlight coming towards Stillwater Avenue. I turned right onto Ridgewood Drive and began trying to turn around. The motorcycle came right at me, then drove around the back of my cruiser and straight across Stillwater Avenue, failing to stop at a stop sign, and down Longview Drive.”

Hassard said the operator of the motorcycle appeared to be male, with a rugged build. He was wearing a helmet, black jacket and pants.

“I turned on my emergency light again and proceeded after the motorcycle on Longview Drive.” He said a Veazie police cruiser was parked at Springer Drive with its blue lights on. The motorcycle continued straight on Longview Drive. At Longview and Hogan Road, Officer George Spencer was stopped with his cruiser’s blue lights running.

The motorcyclist went around Spencer and turned left on Hogan Road, again failing to stop at the flashing red lights at the intersection and then through the lights at Hogan Road and Maine Mall Boulevard and onto I-95 southbound, the police in pursuit.

“We passed one vehicle on I-95,” said Hassard, “just south of the new bridge. The motorcycle exited on Broadway and headed outbound around Husson Avenue. Sgt. Steve Hunt and Officer Doug Moore turned around and began to pursue the motorcycle, ” said Hassard.

The motorcycle then turned right on Burleigh Road where Sgt. Hunt lost sight of it and terminated the pursuit. Police checked the area but found no sign of the motorcycle.

The chase went on for 8.8 miles and reached speeds of more than 100 mph several times. The case is still under investigation.

– Compiled by NEWS reporters Doug Kesseli and David Walsh