A Bath painting contractor has been arrested on theft charges for a second time in two weeks in an investigation into property stolen from two Georgetown homes.

Matthew Atwood, 25, of Atwood Painting Co., was arrested Feb. 12 on suspicion of stealing jewelry and cash worth $11,000 from a Georgetown home where he had worked as a painting contractor in January. He was arrested after turning himself into authorities at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset that day, later released on $5,000 cash bail.

Police arrested Atwood a second time — Thursday at his home, at around 7:20 p.m. — and charged him with theft after investigators identified property stolen from a second Georgetown complainant had been pawned in the Lewiston-Auburn area, Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Chief Deputy Brett Strout said.

Atwood was taken to Two Bridges Regional Jail, booked and bail was set at $3,000 cash, Strout said. He was given a May 14 court date.

After Atwood’s initial arrest, police said in a news release that Atwood had been “active in several transactions” at various pawn shops, selling similar small items such as jewelry and coins. They then worked to link those pawned items to their original owners and asked anyone who had work done by Atwood in the past year to contact police.

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