November 23, 2024
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Teen charged after blacking out Dunkin’ Donuts employee removes keys from car at drive-through

A Winterport teenager was charged with drunken driving after he lost consciousness at a Bangor Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through early Saturday.

When an employee at the fast-food restaurant on Main Street noticed that David Moulton, 19, had lost consciousness, he went out to the vehicle and removed the keys, Bangor police Officer James Dearing said. When police arrived, Moulton had “$2 in his hand and a glazed look on his face,” the officer said.

Tests found Moulton’s blood-alcohol level to be 0.14 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 for a person over the age of 21.

A Bangor man faces a possession of drug paraphernalia charge after trying Saturday night to convince police that a marijuana pipe he had in his pocket was actually a lighter, police said.

Bangor police Officer Erik Tall had pulled over a 1990 Dodge sedan for taillights not working properly and asked the driver and the passenger if he could search them and the car, Tall said. When Tall felt what appeared to be a marijuana pipe in the pants pocket of passenger Thomas Douglas, 18, Douglas claimed it was a cigarette lighter.

When the object was removed from the pocket, however, police discovered it was a marijuana pipe with residue in the bowl, Tall said.

Police were still looking for clues after the owners of a trailer in Bangor found that four of its windows had been smashed sometime Saturday night.

The owners had been refurbishing a trailer on Shephard Drive for rental when someone broke windows in the living room, bedroom, kitchen and in a screen door, Bangor police Officer Dennis Lally said. Officials found a rock and a piece of slate inside the trailer near two of the broken windows. Damage was estimated at $400.

A Bangor woman, fearing she could be connected with the illegal sale of medications, reported Saturday evening that her prescription drugs had been stolen, police said.

The woman had 15 pills of methylphenid, which is sold under the name Ritalin and is a stimulant narcotic, stolen from her Langley Street apartment along with 41 pills of klonopin, a prescription tranquilizer, Bangor police Officer Rob Angello said. The woman believed a former roommate had entered her apartment and stolen the medications because, she told police, the former roommate “has a drug problem.”

A Bangor man reported on Saturday morning that a black sun-shaped steel cutout was stolen from the cedar fence of his Grove Street home, Bangor police Sgt. Bob Bishop said. The 16-inch-diameter sign was valued at $200 and was believed to have been taken sometime during the previous night.

A Massachusetts man faces drug-related charges after the Brewer woman he had been riding with was pulled over for speeding Sunday evening, officials said.

Morgan Strane-Starr, 23, of Chilmark, Mass., was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a usable amount of marijuana after Brewer police Officer Anthony Pinette found a bag of marijuana in his shirt pocket and a glass pipe in his pants pocket after Strane-Starr consented to be searched, Pinette said. Strane-Starr had been riding in a blue 1996 Dodge Neon when the driver, Ruth Woodbury, 25, was pulled over for driving 47 mph in a 25 mph zone on South Main Street and was charged with speeding.

Newport police were still searching for answers Sunday after someone stole a water pump from an apple orchard, Newport police Officer Dave Wintle said. The pump was reported missing Saturday afternoon after owners of Rowe’s Apple Orchard, Route 7, noticed the pump missing from the top of a well used to irrigate the orchard.

Police did not immediately have any leads, and a value of the pump was not available.

A Winn man faces two counts of assault after a domestic disagreement turned into a fight just before 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Raymond Leet, 36, allegedly attacked his girlfriend after she became involved in a disagreement he was having with her male cousin at the couple’s Route 2 home, said Deputy Peter Stone of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department. When the girlfriend’s daughter intervened, a fourth person allegedly had to pull Leet off the two women. He was taken to Penobscot County Jail and will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor on Nov. 5. Alcohol was considered a factor in the fight.

Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton


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