LEWISTON — A detective staking out a local pawn shop Monday didn’t find the person he was looking for but may have nabbed another man who was wanted on different charges, the shop’s owner Rick LaChappelle said.

Police were called to the Lewiston Pawn Shop at 383 Lisbon St. shortly after 1 p.m., after a Lewiston Police Department detective, who was working with an Auburn Police Department detective on another investigation, spotted a man he believed was wanted, LaChappelle said.

The man denied he was the wanted person but when police started questioning his girlfriend the man “bolted,” LaChappelle said. He ran into several customers in the shop on his way toward the door but didn’t otherwise damage anybody or do anything else criminal at the shop, LaChappelle said. 

“It was just a matter of him being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” LaChappelle said.

At least two people, one male and one female, were in the back of Lewiston police cars outside the shop as a small group of police officers, some in plain clothes, stood outside the shop for a short period.

Police confirmed that one suspect was arrested on a warrant. Daniel Folsom, 27, of 17 Doughty Road, Bangor, was charged with a probation hold Monday afternoon at the shop.