FARMINGTON – A Lewiston man was captured early Sunday about two hours after he bolted from a deputy’s cruiser at the jail. He was charged with escape.
Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Heidi Gould said she had arrested Jeremy Graham, 30, on charges of operating after suspension and being a habitual offender and brought him to the Franklin County jail about 4 a.m.
The vehicle Graham had been driving broke down in front of her, Gould said, on Route 4 in Farmington. It turned out that Graham didn’t have a license to drive, Gould said.
When Gould opened the doors to the cruiser at the jail, Graham took off into the woods with his hands cuffed, she said. She chased him but lost him, she said.
Cpls. Nate Bean and Steve Charles were in the area and followed Graham’s trail with Bean’s tracking dog, Ben.
The track went as far as Box Shop Hill, with Graham apparently doing some things along the way to try and evade the dog, Gould said.
The track ended in the woods across from the former Farmington hospital, now an apartment complex on Route 4, where Graham was found hiding in some underbrush.
They tracked him continuously through the woods for two hours, she said.
“They did a great job,” Gould said of Bean and Charles.
Graham was released from the jail Sunday on $1,000 cash bail and has a court date of June 22 in Farmington.
The owner of the vehicle Graham had been driving, Kristine Hulsen, whose address was unavailable Monday, and a passenger were issued summonses on a charge of permitted unlawful use for allowing Graham to drive the vehicle knowing he didn’t have a license, Gould said.
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