Police charged two Bangor women Wednesday after one tried to cash checks that were reported stolen.

At about 4 p.m. Officers James Dearing and David Bushey went to Bangor Savings Bank on State Street, where they found Officer George Spencer detaining Shana Dinapoli, 20, of Bangor.

The teller at the walk-up window said Dinapoli had tried to cash a check for $475 that was from a closed account from which checks had been reported stolen.

Dearing said Dinapoli told him Jana Woollard, 22, who was in her car, had given her the check with nobody’s name on the payee line. Dinapoli said Woollard claimed the check belonged to her mother and that Woollard could not cash it herself because she had no bank account.

Dearing found Woollard shaking in the back seat. She said at first that she had no checks, but on further question admitted she did. Dearing said he found a check pad with four checks removed but the carbon intact. Checks had been written in the amounts of $475, $240, $225, and $110, with no names written on the payee lines.

Dearing said Woollard admitted finding the checks in an apartment in Presque Isle. Dearing said he told Woollard he would only summon her for forgery and possession of stolen property because she was so honest about her involvement. When dispatch informed Dearing of two outstanding warrants, one of which was for failure to appear to answer charges of misuse of credit identification, Officer Bushey took her to Penobscot County Jail.

Dearing said he also summoned Dinapoli for forgery even though she said she didn’t know the check was forged. Dearing said she admitted it was suspicious.

A Jackman man was arrested in the Somerset County town of Mercer after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend and threatening her children Thursday morning in Orono.

Orono police received a call at about half past noon Thursday from a Kelley road woman who said her boyfriend, Bryant Peck, 27, grabbed and struck her at about 1 a.m. that morning, threatening to kill her and her children, the report said.

She said Peck then took her car without permission and drove away.

Orono police Officer Josh Ewing said the vehicle’s description was broadcast statewide, and was found with Peck in a cemetery. Somerset County Sheriff’s Department officers arrested Peck for assault and criminal threatening. He was also put on probation hold, Ewing said.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball