Limestone man charged with assault, eluding an officer

LIMESTONE ? A Limestone man suspected of being involved in an assault at his home Tuesday led police on a high speed chase before he was arrested.

On Wednesday, Stephen Biastre, 33, of 725 Blake Road remained at the Aroostook County Jail. He was arraigned in Caribou District Court Wednesday on charges of assault and eluding an officer.

Sgt. Stephen Belanger of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department said he proceeded to the Blake Road address after receiving a telephone call about a domestic dispute. The incident involved Biastre and a woman, not his wife, who he pushed down a flight of stairs.

Belanger said the woman was treated at a local hospital and released.

Belanger, who was on his way to the address, was told by radio that Biastre had left the residence in a white car.

“I saw the car parked on a field road and pulled in behind him,” Belanger said Wednesday. “He decided to take off.”

The chase, which reached speeds of 90 miles per hour, started on the field road, back onto Blake Road and across Route 1A. The 20-minute chase proceeded to Noyes Road, the Center Limestone Road that goes to Fort Fairfield, and then turned off onto the West Limestone Road.

At that point, Biastre pulled into a side road, that actually turned out to be a driveway.

At about that time, a second deputy sheriff cruiser pulled up, as did a cruiser from the Fort Fairfield Police Department and three U.S. Border Patrol agents in their vehicles.

Biastre was talked out of his car. He gave police no other problems. Police confiscated two knives from Biastre, and found a third one in the car. Two of the knives, switchblade type knives, were said to be illegal.

He was arrested and taken to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton.

He was brought to court at Caribou Wednesday afternoon.