Staff Writer
PRESQUE ISLE — A local man was arrested Sept. 16 in connection with the theft of tools from a Dyer Street residence.
The Presque Isle Police Department was contacted by a Dyer Street resident around 2:47 p.m. reporting he was working in his yard with some tools and that they had disappeared. He told police he thought whoever took the tools — identified as a Craftsman six-piece set — might be on a bicycle because he saw tracks on his lawn.
Officers Danielle Levesque and Peter Johnson responded to investigate.
Police contacted local pawn shops. Johnson later went to Star City Trading where store proprietor informed him that a man had tried to pawn the items reported stolen. The man told the owner that he’d bring the tools in. Johnson met with the man, who initially identified himself as Mark Cyr. The officer gave the man a ride to 58 Exchange Street. Once there, the man ran into the apartment in an attempt to escape.
Johnson pursued the man, later identified as Kevin Thibodeau, 29, of Presque Isle, assisted by Officer Larry Fickett. Thibodeau was subsequently found hiding under an oil tank in the basement and had to be wrestled free of his hiding place.
Thibodeau was arrested for receiving stolen property, refusing to submit to arrest and giving a false name. He was booked and transported to the Caribou Police Department, to be held in relation to several outstanding warrants.
