INMAN, South Carolina — A two-state high-speed police chase and carjacking in the Carolinas ended with the arrest of a Maine man Wednesday, who was convicted of stealing guns from a Brewer military supply store in 2007.
Police say 27-year-old Sayer Anthony-Spang Tamiso of Hampden led them on a pursuit, reaching speeds near 115 miles an hour.
They say Tamiso then crashed, got out, and carjacked a driver at gunpoint.
Police say Tamiso then tried to hit police cruisers, damaging three of them. At least one deputy was hospitalized.
Tamiso is facing a number of charges, including armed robbery and failure to stop in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and failure to stop in Polk County, North Carolina.
Tamiso pleaded guilty in June 2007 in U.S. District Court to stealing a firearm from a licensed dealer. By pleading guilty, he admitted that on April 23, 2007, he and Tennyson Marceau, now 28, of Vermont broke into Maine Military Supply on Wilson Street and stole more than a dozen guns, according to a previously published report.
Tamiso was sentenced in January 2008 to 28 months in federal prison.
Marceau, who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, forced Tamiso to participate in the burglary, Tamiso’s attorney said after his client was sentenced. Tamiso also was was on supervised release from May 1, 2009, until April 30, 2012, according to documents filed in federal court in Bangor. His supervision by U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services was transferred on March 1, 2009, to North Carolina. Nothing was filed in U.S. District Court in Asheville, North Carolina, to indicate Tamiso violated his probation.
Marceau was released in March 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator.
CBS 13 contributed to this report.