Derek Bo Dube and a 19-year-old female companion surrendered without a fight at a New Hampshire campground Saturday afternoon, ending a widespread manhunt for the former Lewiston resident.
Dube, 26, was in at least two high-speed chases and a suspect in several home invasions in the Boothbay Harbor area, police said, before going on the lam Wednesday afternoon.
The fugitive, considered armed, dangerous and suicidal, gave himself up to New Hampshire State Police and U.S. marshals at 2:11 p.m. after a brief stakeout at Wakeda Campground in Hampton Falls, N.H., police said. Jessica Brewer, of Edgecomb, tenting with him, was charged with hindering apprehension.
Sgt. Richard Mitchell with the New Hampshire State Police said he didn’t believe Dube was armed when he was found.
The fugitive reportedly had declared earlier that he would not be taken alive, and police had been warned that he might have been considering “suicide by cop.”
Police believe Dube spent Wednesday night in an Auburn home, after eluding police in Wiscasset by running from a crashed, stolen car. A second car Dube allegedly stole in Wiscassett was found in Lewiston on Thursday morning after he sold it to a friend.
He checked into the Hampton Falls campground Thursday using an alias that started with “Ryan,” owner Jan Hambleton said Saturday night.
Dube paid for two nights with the possibility of staying a third. The campground, four miles off route 1, has 408 sites on 180 acres.
“I suppose if you wanted to get lost, it would be a good place to get lost – but it didn’t work,” Hambleton said Saturday night. “I told my mother, how did they find someone in the New Hampshire woods using a different name?”
Tips on the location of Dube and his companion had been passed from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office to the Maine Violent Crimes Task Force, according to police news releases after the arrest.
Dube and Brewer were both taken to the Rockingham County Department of Corrections in Brentwood, N.H., after their arrests on felony warrants, to await extradition to Maine.
Dube is a suspect in two home invasions and other robberies and wanted on probation violations. He’s also alleged to have lead police on several high-speed chases Tuesday and Wednesday.
New Hampshire police listed Dube’s home address as Auburn, where his mother lives. His last-known address in Lewiston was on Sabattus Street.
“The good thing is we caught him before he hurt anybody else or himself,” Lewiston Sgt. Michael McGonagle said Saturday night. “There was such an emphasis here because guns may have been stolen, he was suicidal, fleeing and stealing a car. We were worried about his safety and the people around him.”
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