PORTLAND, Maine — Police have arrested a man on several charges following a pursuit in Portland Sunday afternoon.
Just after 2:15 p.m., a Portland police officer saw a "woman waving frantically for help out the passenger side window of a vehicle" on Forest Avenue, according to a news release from the Portland Police Department.
After a traffic stop was attempted, the vehicle led police on a 20-minute pursuit through the Deering neighborhoods and onto I-295 northbound, police said.
The woman reportedly appeared to open the passenger door of the moving vehicle during the pursuit. Police said they attempted to stop the vehicle with a spike strip but were not successful because of heavy traffic.
Benjamin Martineau, 34, of Portland was arrested and brought to Cumberland County Jail after the vehicle pulled over around mile marker 12.
Martineau faces charges of criminal restraint, domestic violence assault, domestic violence criminal threatening, eluding an officer, refusal to stop, reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, two counts of driving to endanger, obstructing the report of a crime, operating without a license, terrorizing, and leaving the scene of an accident.
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