SPRINGFIELD, Maine — A Springfield woman was held at Penobscot County Jail on Friday after she was arrested on charges of leading state police and game wardens on a chase with a loaded shotgun in her car, officials said.
Cynthia Gervais, 57, was charged with operating under the influence, eluding a police officer, driving to endanger, domestic violence criminal threatening, terrorizing and criminal speeding, state police said.
Police accused Gervais of pointing a shotgun at her boyfriend at his house on Mill Hill Road at about 6 p.m. Thursday. When state police Trooper Bernard Campbell and Maine Warden Service Sgt. Ron Dunham and Warden Paul Farrington arrived at the house, she had locked herself in her car with the gun and refused to exit, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Gervais then drove off down Route 6 for several miles until she lost control of the car, which came to rest alongside a tree. Gervais was arrested at gunpoint. No shots were fired, and no one was injured, said McCausland, who declined to reveal Gervais’ blood-alcohol content at the time of her arrest.
Gervais was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail following an appearance at the Penobscot County Judicial Center on Friday, a jail spokesman said.