WOODLAND – A Woodland man has been charged with escape after he fled Monday morning from an Aroostook County sheriff’s deputy who was trying to arrest him for a probation violation.

In addition to the charge of escape, which is a felony, Jonathan Moir, 22, also has been charged with criminal trespass. He also might be charged with failure to submit to arrest, according to Deputy Dan Robertson of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department.

Robertson said he went to a home in Woodland about 8:40 a.m. Monday. Moir’s probation officer told Robertson that Moir was not supposed to be at that Woodland location, as a condition of his probation on an assault charge.

When Robertson attempted to arrest him, Moir fled into the nearby woods. He hid from police for about five hours before Robertson and Deputy Steve Belanger found him about 1:30 p.m. in the woods off Tangle Ridge Road in Perham.

“He played cat and mouse with us,” Robertson said, adding that Moir had to be handcuffed when he was apprehended.

“He resisted right to the end,” the deputy said.

On Oct. 30, Moir was in Caribou District Court to answer a charge of assault stemming from a Sept. 11 incident against a Woodland woman.

At that time, Moir was sentenced to 11 months in jail, all suspended, with two years of probation.

A condition of that probation was that unless Moir had permission from probation officer Francis Cyr, he could not have contact with the woman he assaulted.

Moir was at the woman’s home Monday, when she called Cyr to inform him that Moir was there.

According to Cyr, Moir could end up serving his full 11-month sentence on the assault charge, because of the probation violation.