A Hermon man will appear in 3rd District Court on Dec. 20 after police charged him early Sunday with stealing a car from a Bangor motel while he was intoxicated.

Thomas L. Sorrell, 27, allegedly asked a man at Howard Johnson Inn, 336 Odlin Road, for a ride to Old Town about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Bangor police Officer Tyler Leighton said. When the man told Sorrell he couldn’t give him a ride, Sorrell waited until the man had left his car. Then, police said, Sorrell stole it. The owner saw his car leaving the parking lot, called police and gave them a description of the driver.

Later, Officer George Spencer noticed the vehicle pulling out of a driveway on Ohio Street and stopped it on Hammond Street, Spencer said. Sorrell had been charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle when Spencer noticed that Sorrell’s eyes were glassy red. Tests found Sorrell’s blood alcohol level to be 0.14 percent. The legal limit for anyone over 21 in Maine is 0.08 percent. Sorrell was released on bail later in the day.

An Old Town man faces charges of terrorizing, criminal trespass and harassment by phone Saturday morning.

Police earlier had given Matthew Brooks, 30, a criminal trespass warning after management for Wim Station Apartments found out that Brooks had been living with his girlfriend at her apartment without permission from management, Old Town police Sgt. Travis Roy said. Only the girlfriend had been approved to stay there, so management had Brooks removed.

Just after 3:30 a.m., however, after calling to say he was going to cause some “serious damage,” an intoxicated Brooks arrived at his girlfriend’s apartment and pounded on her apartment door, Roy said. After he was arrested, Brooks said he would come after his girlfriend when he gets out of jail.

Brooks was taken to Penobscot Country Jail in Bangor, where he was being held without bail Sunday night on order of his probation officer. He will appear in 3rd District Court in Bangor today.

After more than two dozen vehicles were towed in Penobscot County on Sunday for violation of winter parking ordinances, deputies and area police officers said drivers should remember when snowstorms approach to keep their vehicles off public streets marked with snow emergency restrictions. Tickets for violators can run to $20 apiece, plus towing charges.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton