STOCKTON SPRINGS, Maine — An Old Town woman was charged early Tuesday morning after a police chase on U.S. Route 1 that ended when officials used spike mats to slow her down.
Rebecca Sawyer, 33, evidently had crashed a vehicle in Verona Island and then gotten a ride from a truck driver, Chief Deputy Jeff Trafton of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Sawyer then reportedly stole a vehicle in Searsport, he said. The Searsport Police Department put out a bulletin for a stolen vehicle, and Deputy Darren Moody of the sheriff’s office spotted it shortly thereafter on Route 1 heading toward Bucksport.
“He attempted to stop her, and a pursuit took place,” Trafton said.
Sawyer reached speeds of about 75 miles per hour during the chase but didn’t stop until officers from the Bucksport Police Department put down spike mats and deflated two of her tires.
She was taken to an emergency room, though not for physical injuries, Trafton said.
The sheriff’s office charged her with failure to stop for a police officer.
Crashed one car then stole another and led police on a high speed chase. Beware of the loose nut behind the wheel. Why is she even allowed to be on the road at this point? Are these the first such incidents? Hopefully, they will be the last.
Who says she was allowed to be on the road in the first place? We all know that suspending a licence will only keep the honest people from driving.
So youre a mental health professional ……….let me guess…….LCSW whith DHHS ? If you have been doing it for 25 plus years I would think that by now you would use better tact in public than refering to a person who may or may not have some type of mental disorder as a nut. If your years in your chosen line of work have hardened your outlook of and on people perhaps it is time you found another line of work…..
Amen!
Our great leaders had better begin finding jobs, get some industry in this State by what means they can, our great Republican leaders could do this, if they had individual guts. These kids need work, that pays. I just hope that it is not true, that people tell me the poor are being forced out, by low wages, high cost of living. But also by hopelessness, despair, desparation. The people of Maine are smart, hard-working people, they are better that what is happening, if they could get a chance at a break.
Leaving the scene of an accident, driving to endanger, speeding, auto theft and she was charged with failure to stop? There had better be more charges waiting for her.
Took long enough for BDN to put in an article!
drugs was involved no doubt