A man in his early 40s, wearing a blue jacket over a blue hooded sweat shirt, loaded a shopping cart with liquor bottles Sunday, then pushed the cart out of the Shop ‘n Save at 1130 Union St. in Bangor without paying for it, Bangor police said.

Officer Butch Moor said the man abandoned the cart when an employee outside the grocery store approached him. The cart contained about $200 worth of liquor.

Police were checking Sunday night to see whether the man was the same person who stole a moneybag from a parked car on Hancock Street on Dec. 2. A woman was returning to her parked car at the Brick Oven bakery, 183 Hancock St., when she saw someone leaving her car carrying a moneybag that she had left in the vehicle, police said. The woman gave chase, but the man escaped. Police have not yet released information about what was in the moneybag.

Police said the descriptions of the two suspects were very similar. The man who stole the moneybag was described as wearing a grayish jacket over a grayish hooded sweat shirt, police said. Anyone with any information about either incident should call Bangor police at 947-7384.

Police sought two teen boys Sunday who are believed to have set a fire in the middle of Hutchinson Street in Bangor on Saturday morning.

A resident looked out her window just after 4 a.m. Saturday and saw two boys standing in the intersection of Hutchinson and 18th streets, staring at a fire, Bangor police Officer Brad Hanson said. The boys, who were estimated to be 16 or 17, were without jackets. The temperature was about 15 degrees.

The woman yelled at the boys after she saw one of them spray an aerosol can into the fire. Both ran off in the direction of Ohio Street, the woman told police. When Hanson arrived, the fire still was burning in the middle of the road, but quickly burned itself out.

Members of the city’s Public Works Department cleaned up the remnants. It was not clear immediately what had been burned.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Derek Breton