BOMBS AWAY

  A caller reported two boys setting off homemade bombs at the skateboard park near the YMCA. Police said the two 13-year-old boys were charged with criminal use of explosives.

FREE RENT

  Police responded to a burglary in progress on Emery Street. When police arrived, they discovered an empty apartment. Police said there was evidence someone had been sneaking into the apartment and staying there.

TWO-FOR-ONE SPECIAL

  Police said a 30-year-old woman was charged with shoplifting at Hannaford after store security watched her conceal three DVD movies valued at $23.17. While police were still in the store issuing the summons, store security motioned the police officer over to the security monitor to watch a 37-year-old man steal a package of coffee cakes valued at $1.59 and a package of boneless strip steaks priced at $11.09. The man was arrested on a warrant from Florida and for probation revocation in Maine. He was also charged with shoplifting.

24-HOUR LAYOVER

  Police said a 23-year-old Shapleigh man was arrested on a warrant from another agency after police were called to the Mid-Town Mall for a verbal argument. Police said the man tried to run from police. After he was arrested, police said he became belligerent and slammed his head into the partition between the front and back seats of the cruiser. Police said he told them he was not going to jail and then said he had swallowed 56 ecstasy pills. The man was taken to the hospital where he was admitted for 24-hour observation.

NOW YOU GOTTA CATCH ME

  Police were called to the Mid-Town Mall for a group of girls fighting. When police arrived, one car chased another out of the parking lot. An officer followed the cars out of the parking lot and said one car almost hit a third car on Winter Street. Police said one 17-year-old girl was arrested for terrorizing and another 17-year-old was arrested for failure to stop for an officer and driving to endanger.

ROCK ‘N ROLL

  Police said a woman reported a window in her car had been broken by a man who threw a rock. Police said the woman was driving on Main Street when her passenger and a pedestrian began yelling at one another. The pedestrian picked up a rock and threw it at the car, hitting the window. Police said the man, who admitted throwing the rock, was summonsed for criminal mischief.

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD

Police received a call from a Mill Street resident about a child wandering around. On arrival, police found a 2-year-old girl who had unlocked a door and let herself out. The child was reunited with her family.