Brewer police arrested a Winterport man Friday night after a four-hour search found him in a Bangor home, officials said.

Travis Whittlessey, 19, was arrested and charged with probation violation after eluding police from Brewer to Bangor from 4:40 to 8:20 p.m., Brewer police Cpl. Jason Moffitt said.

Police had initially received a report of juveniles with smoke bombs on Brimmer Street, Moffit said. When police found no smoke bombs, the juveniles were questioned about the location of Whittlessey, for whom police had been searching for a couple of weeks on a probation violation.

Whittlessey, claiming to be someone else, told police that the man could be found on Parker Street. But when Moffitt returned to the station and talked with Detective Fred Luce, he discovered the man he had just talked to was Whittlessey, Moffitt said.

Whittlessey told police that he had been at an apartment on Parker Street earlier in the evening, but when police arrived to arrest Whittlessey, he had already slipped out a back window.

Police later found Whittlessey’s girlfriend getting into a cab in Brewer and, after calling the taxi company, discovered the woman had gone to a home on Court Street in Bangor where she met with Whittlessey, Moffitt said. The man did not resist when members of the Brewer and Bangor police departments arrested him at the house.

A Bangor man was arrested and charged with three counts of operating a motor vehicle after the suspension of his license, with violation of bail conditions and with drunken driving after being stopped for speeding Friday morning, Brewer police Cpl. Jason Moffitt said.

Herman Rodriguez, 32, was speeding when he came up quickly behind a Brewer police cruiser traveling east on North Main Street, Moffitt said. Rodriguez, who was pulled over by Officer Rodney Gerald, admitted to the officer that he did not have a license and that he had been drinking at a bar on Main Street in Bangor, police said.

After failing several sobriety tests, Rodriguez refused to take a breathalyzer test. He was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor for refusing to take the test, Moffitt said. Rodriguez was denied bail from Penobscot County Jail because of recent convictions for operating a motor vehicle after the suspension of his license, trafficking in dangerous knives, attaching false license plates to a vehicle, assault and violation of probation.

A guest at the Bangor Motor Inn may have prevented a car burglary Thursday night when he ran to the parking lot after hearing glass break, officials said.

A white male had broken open the driver’s side window of a red 1992 Honda Accord and was in the process of taking out the car stereo when he was likely scared off, Bangor police Officer Russ Twadell said. The burglar had gotten the stereo about an inch out of the dash and had gone through the car’s glove compartment before fleeing through the rear of the Van Syckle Lincoln Mercury parking lot on the Hogan Road.

Bangor police Officer Bob Hutchins and his K-9, Rex, tracked the man to an area across Longview Drive where it appeared the man had gotten into a waiting car, Twadell said. According to reports, nothing was taken from the vehicle; however, the burglar did leave his crowbar in the front seat of the car.

Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $200.

A University of Maine student was arrested outside a nightclub in Old Town after refusing to get out of the way of traffic and verbally assaulting police officers, police said.

Jacquelyn Chaisson, 23, was part of a group of about 30 people standing outside the bar at 1:30 a.m. Friday when police tried to break up the group, Old Town police Sgt. Travis Roy said Friday. Chaisson stood in the way of an oncoming 18-wheeler before police had the woman leave the road. When she returned to the street and again refused to move while yelling expletives at the officers, she was arrested.

The woman only gave the school as her address, Roy said.

– Compiled by Derek Breton