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Bangor police arrested a Brewer man wanted on warrants after a brief chase over a fence and into a wooded area along Interstate 95 Tuesday evening.
Shawn Audibert, 31, faces a charge of escape after he fled from police, in addition to the charges he faces from the warrant.
A passenger in a car driving in the area of the Bangor Mall, Audibert was recognized by Sgt. Garry Higgins, the supervisory special agent with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, who was off duty. Higgins radioed Bangor police who sent Officers Dan Herrick and Myron Warner to intercept the car.
Warner stopped the car in the southbound lane, just north of the Hammond Street exit at 7:09 p.m., about five minutes after Higgins first alerted police. According to police, Audibert initially claimed to be someone else, although Herrick said the man matched the description given him of Audibert, including a V-shaped scar on his left hand.
Ordered out of the car, Audibert ran from police, with Warner grabbing the man’s jacket, only to have Audibert wriggle free, police said. Herrick dove at Audibert, grabbing his legs and both men fell to the ground. Audibert kicked himself free and ran toward the woods, scaling a 7-foot fence with Warner and Higgins in pursuit, police said.
On the other side of the fence in the darkness and thick woods with no flashlight, Audibert didn’t get far. Warner said he spotted the wanted man crouching down behind some shrubs, exhausted. There was “no fight left in him,” Warner said.
Audibert was wanted for failure to appear in court on a motor vehicle charge and theft as well as a probation revocation. A 16-year-old Brewer girl who was reported missing was found in the car and arrested on warrants.
Tires were slashed on at least 14 motor vehicles along Bangor’s west side some time late Sunday night or early Monday morning.
About the same time and in the same area at least four motor vehicles were reported burglarized, with mostly change being taken, and some music CDs and a Sony Walkman.
Authorities said the burglaries appeared to be random in that they weren’t targeting a specific house and that they were spread out along the west side. Tires were slashed on vehicles parked in driveways or parking lots including along Harthorn Street, Norway Road, Williams Street, Lincoln Street, West Broadway and Sixth and Seventh streets.
A resident on Sixth Street reported hearing a hissing sound coming from outside his home about midnight Sunday but when he looked out a window he didn’t see anyone. The next morning his neighbor reported a tire on his vehicle was flat and couldn’t be inflated.
The motor vehicles that were burglarized were reported on Ralph Street, Webster Avenue, West Broadway and West Street.
A man wanted in North Carolina on charges that included kidnapping, extortion and assault with the intent to kill was arrested in Bangor Monday evening.
Investing a report of a disturbance at 31 Bald Mountain Drive, Officer Myron Warner ran a computer check on Alton Beamon Smith, 20, and learned the man was wanted back in North Carolina. Smith was taken to Penobscot County Jail where he remained Tuesday night awaiting extradition.
– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli
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