September 20, 2024
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Orono police investigate theft of car tires, rims

Police still were investigating a theft Sunday night after an Orono man noticed that morning that someone had put his car on cinder blocks and stolen his new tires and rims, police said.

The man last noticed his car with tires and rims Wednesday, police said. The car had been parked away from an apartment in Talmar Woods after being damaged in an accident earlier in the year.

Police on Sunday were investigating vandalism that caused more than $700 in damage in downtown Old Town Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

A fence near the Chocolate Grill had $600 in damage when vandals broke a section, Old Town police Sgt. Scott Casey said. Vandals also broke the barber pole outside Carl’s Barber Shop, causing $100 in damage, and knocked over a sign at Dawn Til Done.

A Bangor man struck a parked vehicle near his driveway around 11 p.m. Saturday, and police said he was driving under the influence of alcohol at nearly three times the legal limit.

Robert Weeks was charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants when a breathalyzer test found Weeks’ blood alcohol level to be 0.22 percent, Bangor police Officer Allen Hayden said. The legal blood alcohol content level in Maine is 0.08 percent.

Police found a beer can in Weeks’ car, Hayden said.

When Weeks was trying to pull into his driveway at 55 Ohio St. he struck the rear of Maureen Hayward’s parked vehicle in front of 60 Ohio St, Hayden said. Damage to Hayward’s vehicle was estimated at $500.

No one was in the Hudson woman’s car at the time and Weeks was not injured, Hayden said.

A Pittston man was arrested and taken to Penobscot County Jail on Saturday evening after Filene’s department store security personnel reported catching him leave the store with nearly $370 worth of clothing and cologne, police said.

Logan Campbell, 23, was confronted by a Filene’s security officer when he tried to walk out of the store with several articles of clothing and a bottle of Nautica cologne, Bangor police Officer Erik Tall said.

After police found a prescription bottle filled with marijuana in his pocket, Logan was arrested and charged with theft and possession of a usable amount of marijuana.

East Millinocket police arrested a local man who had barricaded himself in his apartment after attacking his wife with a baseball bat, officials said Sunday.

Walter Cote III, 32, was charged with aggravated domestic assault after he allegedly punched his wife on the side of her face four or five times, then struck her several times on her right hip with a baseball bat when she tried to leave their apartment early Saturday, East Millinocket police Sgt. Richard Leavitt said.

The woman went to a neighbor’s apartment on York Street and called police, Leavitt said. When Leavitt and Officer Robert Johansen arrived at the home, Cote refused to leave the apartment.

Officer Charles James was brought to the home as officials continued to talk to Cote through a bullhorn, Leavitt said. The man surrendered after 15 minutes.

Officials noticed swelling and a small cut on the woman’s face, Leavitt said. She was taken to Millinocket Regional Hospital for evaluation.

Cote was released on personal recognizance bail of $40 when the woman left town to stay with family members, Leavitt said.

Bangor police still were looking for a man believed to have slashed all the tires on a woman’s vehicle Friday night after she refused to have sex with him, police said.

The 39-year-old woman was at Jimmy V’s Bar & Grill around 9 p.m. when she refused a man’s offer to go to his home and have sex with him, Bangor police Officer Michael Kenny said.

When she left the bar at 11:30 p.m. she found all four of her car’s tires slashed and the antenna bent.

Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $335.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton


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