POLAND – Two attempted heists were foiled Thursday by the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department, police said.

Officers arrested Justin Sites and Brandi Saucier-Martin, both 32 years old and both from Lewiston, after stolen property was found in a car in Oxford.

The Sheriff’s Department responded to the first call about 1:30 p.m. after a residential alarm was acitvated on White Oak Hill Road, according to a statement released by Chief Deputy Michael J. Ward.

A neighbor who heard the alarm “witnessed two subjects run from the driveway” of the home “and get into a dark-colored Chrysler sedan,” Ward said.

The vehicle left the scene and the county law enforcement dispatch issued a bulletin urging police to be on the lookout for the sedan.

The Sheriff’s Department received a second call about 10 minutes later from a resident on Jackson Road, only a few miles away. The caller reported “that she came home and found her house burglarized and her laptop and digital camera had been stolen,” according to Ward. Sheriff’s Department deputies Dennis Sampson, Craig MacMillan and Mark Caron responded to the second scene.

The same day, after the Oxford Police Department was notified, Officer James Richardson pulled over a vehicle matching the description on King Street in Oxford, said Ward. Deputy Sampson and Androscoggin County Detective William Gagne responded to Oxford where “stolen property from the town of Poland and the town of Gray was recovered from the vehicle,” according to the statement released by Ward.

Ward said Monday night that the loot was private property taken from homes in Gray. An investigation is ongoing and police are trying to determine the rightful owners.

The suspects in the stopped vehicle – Sites and Saucier-Martin – arrested and taken to the Androscoggin County Jail, according to the statement. They were arrested about 3:30 p.m., according to the arrest report. They were charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief.