AUBURN – A 26-year-old man accused of breaking into homes in Boothbay Harbor last month, then leading police on two high-speed chases before being captured, appeared in an Auburn courtroom Tuesday.
Derek Bo Dube faces a long list of felony charges in Lincoln County, where the alleged burglaries and invasions took place.
His brief appearance in Androscoggin County Superior Court was to answer a charge that he had violated his probation from an earlier home invasion in this county.
At the time of his arrest earlier this month, Dube was serving six years of probation for tying up and robbing a woman in her Sabattus home.
He was charged with violating that probation by committing new crimes. He denied the charge Tuesday and was ordered to be held without bail.
Dube has violated his probation twice since his release, according to court records. Last January, he was sent back to prison for 120 days for failing to report to his probation officer and testing positive for marijuana.
The target of a massive three-day manhunt in central and southern Maine, Dube was captured at a campground in New Hampshire on July 16.
In addition to a series of home invasions and burglaries in the Boothbay Harbor area, he was wanted in connection with two car thefts. He allegedly outran police, crashing one stolen vehicle in Wiscassett in the process, then got away by fleeing into woods on foot.
His last known address was listed as his mother’s home in Auburn.
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