Bangor police arrested a designated driver on drunken driving charges early Thursday morning.

Officer Wade Betters and Sgt. Robert Bishop were on Outer Hammond Street at about 1:30 a.m. when they saw a Pontiac Grand Am make a U-turn ahead of them near Motel 6. According to Betters’ report, the car’s wheels went off the steep shoulder, causing it to tip almost all the way over.

The car parked in the motel lot. Betters said he could smell alcohol from the rolled-down driver’s-side window as he approached.

The driver, Mark Allen, 23, when asked about the “strange turn” he had just taken, said he was confused because he was new to the area. Betters said Allen claimed to have had only two drinks because he was the designated driver. There was another man in the passenger seat.

Betters said Allen performed poorly on sobriety tests and registered a 0.12 percent blood alcohol level at the police station. Allen was charged with operating under the influence.

A Kennebunk woman lost $200 after being sent to the wrong motel room Wednesday afternoon in Bangor.

Bangor police Officer Jeff Small reported that the woman told him she had left her duffel bag in room 426 of the Econo Lodge on Odlin Road at about 3:30 p.m. When she returned, she discovered she should have been assigned to room 423. Another woman had moved into room 426, found the Kennebunk woman’s bag and called the front desk.

Motel staff allegedly left the complainant’s bag in the hallway while straightening out the mix-up. The $200 cash was likely taken during that time, Officer Small said.

A Bangor man was summoned for theft after he took cash from a woman in exchange for a bogus rental agreement.

Bangor police Officer Chris Desmond reported that a woman came to the police station Wednesday complaining that a Richard Levesque, 52, had taken $550 cash from her on July 11. The woman said Levesque gave her a receipt, allegedly signed by his landlord, with the understanding that she could take over Levesque’s apartment and that Levesque would give the cash to the landlord.

About three weeks later the landlord came over and told the complainant that she was trespassing, that he had received no money and that the signature on the receipt she showed him was not his. He reportedly said he only knew she was there because other tenants had told him.

Officer Desmond reported that when he spoke to Levesque, Levesque admitted taking the cash. Levesque was evidently two months overdue on his own rent. He had put the cash he got from the woman into the box where the landlord collected rental payments. Desmond said Levesque was sorry for the complainant and agreed to pay her back in installments. Levesque was summoned for theft by deception.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball