FREEPORT, Maine — A woman from Connecticut was taken to the Cumberland County Jail on a fugitive from justice charge after a crash and multiple police chases Thursday.
Maine State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in the northbound median of I-295, near Exit 24 in Freeport, around 11 a.m. Thursday, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said.
The driver handed her identification to police before running across the southbound lanes of traffic and into the woods just off the interstate, the release stated.
After officials identified the driver as Holli Tapley, 45, of Shelton, Connecticut, Augusta Regional Communications Center dispatchers informed police that she had an extraditable warrant out of Connecticut for a parole violation associated with a kidnapping offense, Moss said.
Freeport police responded to the scene to assist in the search for Tapley. While heading to a residential area just beyond the spot where Tapley reportedly entered the woods, police got a tip from a Freeport resident who reported seeing a woman walking away from the direction of the highway, according to the release.
Law enforcement officials got to the area and found a woman in the driveway of a home, talking with a Freeport resident who was clearing snow off his vehicle. The woman fled on foot into the backyard of the home but was detained after a short foot chase, according to Moss. Police then positively identified the woman to be Tapley, the release stated.