Bangor police investigated a theft reported Sunday afternoon by a clerk at a Stillwater Avenue convenience store.

The incident occurred about 1 p.m., when an unidentified male customer entered Stillwater Convenience, 340 Stillwater Ave., to buy four packages of cigarettes and a newspaper worth a total of $17.34, according to police reports. The customer paid the clerk with what appeared to be a folded $20 bill, but when the clerk unfolded the bill, it turned out to be half a $20 bill taped to a $1 bill.

The customer fled with the goods before the clerk could stop him.

He was described as having brown hair and a goatee, about 5 foot 4, and a slim build. He fled the store in a small black two-door automobile with no visible license plate.

The clerk recalled that the year of birth on the suspect’s identification was listed as 1976 but was unable to remember the name.

Bangor police were seeking information Sunday about the theft of two Dagger white-water kayaks, one blue and the other purple, from an Ohio Street home. According to police reports, the owner reported the kayaks stolen Sunday morning. The two boats are believed to have been taken from the home sometime between Wednesday morning and Sunday morning.

Bangor firefighters involved in a weekend training exercise found a badly rusted pistol and a knife in the trunk of an old Oldsmobile, one of several vehicles on which they were practicing vehicle extrication methods. The vehicles were parked in an impound yard on Perkins Street.

The gun, which firefighters were concerned might still contain live ammunition, was turned in to police, who locked it in their evidence cabinet. Police have so far been unable to determine who the gun belonged to because no serial number could be seen. They also had no luck with determining who owned the car it was in because the numbers on the license plates attached to it were not on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Dawn Gagnon