WISCASSET – A 26-year-old Auburn man will serve nearly five years in prison after pleading guilty to several charges stemming from a crime spree last summer.
Under a plea agreement, Derek Dube pleaded guilty to six of 17 charges in Lincoln County Superior Court on Thursday.
Dube’s spree began in July when he burglarized a Boothbay Harbor home and was later spotted by a Lincoln County Sheriff’s officer driving a stolen van on Route 1 in Wiscasset, police said.
A chase ensued, with police pursuing Dube south along Route 1.
At about noon, Dube crashed the minivan at a car lot near Routes 1 and 144. With officers close behind, the suspect took off on foot and disappeared into the woods, police said.
Hours later, police said Dube had taken another car from a residence on Shady Lane in Wiscasset, a 2001 silver Dodge Intrepid, and began driving south on Route 1.
Dube eluded police for four days before being captured at a Hampton Falls, N.H., campground. Dube gave himself up, without incident, to New Hampshire State Police and U.S. marshals at 2:11 p.m. July 16, after a brief stakeout at Wakeda Campground. Jessica Brewer, of Edgecomb, tenting with him, was charged with hindering apprehension.
Dube had reportedly declared earlier that he would not be taken alive, and police had been warned that he might have been considering “suicide by cop.”
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