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A woman allegedly fled to Maine to escape sex crime charges in Virginia.
Merveilles Saidi, 33, was wanted on three felony counts of sodomy against a child, according to the Westbrook Police Department.
Saidi was arrested Wednesday in Westbrook, where she was living, and charged as being a fugitive from justice, police said Sunday.
She was taken to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland, where she awaits extradition to Virginia.