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As many as 14 juveniles were enjoying their makeshift camp in the woods behind Ranger Circle, police said, but by late Sunday afternoon, the gig was up.

Acting on a report from a woman who lives in the area, police located the little fort, and summonsed four of the teen-agers on charges of burglary and criminal mischief. The four boys summonsed are between 14 to 16 years of age.

“There were a lot of kids hanging out there,” Lt. Stan Cielinski said Monday. “They had built a little fort.”

It all began, Cielinski said, when a woman who is moving reported a burglary. The woman told police that someone had forced open her garage door and stolen items such as a wheelbarrow, tarps, tools and a camp table, Cielinski said.

Shoe caper

An alleged theft of shoes from Renys last Friday was anything but conventional. Only one of the two men police say were involved in the caper has been charged, but they know who the other one is, Lt. Stan Cielinski said Monday.

The police report goes like this: A customer saw two men placing shoes in a large bag. The customer told an employee, who addressed the issue to the men. One of the men became confrontational and walked off, while the other man walked outside with the shoes.

“The one who had the shoes went over to a car with two women in it, and one of them was an off-duty employee,” Cielinski related. “She took the shoes and brought them back into the store.”

Police arrested Justin Dall, 36, of Brunswick on charges of shoplifting and refusal to submit to detention.

Police have not yet arrested the other man.

“We know who the other one is,” the lieutenant said. “There is good video backing up what was reported.”

Usually, Cielinski said, shoe thieves operate something like this: The thieves sit down on a bench, take their shoes off, take the new shoes out of the box, put the old shoes in the box and proceed to walk out the store wearing the new shoes.

Bottled up

Whoever stuffed two Heineken bottles into a toilet at Kennebec Tavern on Commercial Street was long gone before someone noticed it.

But by 10:19 a.m. Friday, someone noticed that the toilet had overflowed, the beer bottles still inside.

lgrard@timesrecord.com