By Doug Fletcher,Staff Writer

AUBURN – A mother faces multiple charges – including two of child endangerment – after a brief high-speed chase on Minot Avenue on Sunday afternoon.

Janice Bundin, 40, of 22 Bishop Road, Poland, was arrested a few minutes after 3 p.m. near the Minot Avenue Dunkin’ Donuts.

She had been stopped a few minutes earlier near Fairview School by patrol Officer Barry Schmieks.

“It was just a routine stop,” Schmieks said.

“I thought I recognized her face, but the name she gave me didn’t go with it so I started walking back to the cruiser to check on it,” Schmieks said later Sunday.

The next thing he knew, he said Bundin put her 1991 Pontiac Grand Am in gear and took off.

“I estimated her speed at up to 80” on Minot Avenue, Schmieks said.

Bundin’s car started fishtailing near the doughnut shop and ended up striking a snowbank near the shop’s entry, he said.

“She got out the car screaming I’m sorry, I’m sorry,'” the officer said.

He said he had to wrestle her to the ground to get her under control.

Because her two sons, ages 11 and 12, were passengers in the car, Schmieks charged Bundin with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. She also was charged with attempting to elude a police officer, illegally attaching license plates and operating after revocation as a habitual offender.

Bundin’s children were turned over to the care of their father, Schmieks said.

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