FARMINGTON – Franklin County detectives are working with Massachusetts police to find a Bay State fugitive charged with raping a child and assaulting two adults, and who has ties to the county.

Anthony Flye, 38, of Swansea and Nantucket, Mass., has visited and worked in the Franklin County area as a foreman for a Nantucket contractor who owns property in Farmington and Industry, Franklin County Sheriff’s Detective Tom White said Wednesday.

In February, Massachusetts police filed felony charges of rape of a child with force, indecent assault and battery on a disabled person over 60, indecent exposure, and assault and battery on a person over 60 with injury, against Flye. The crimes were committed in Swansea, Bristol County Sheriff’s Major Nelson DeGouveia said Wednesday, declining to go into detail on specifics.

Flye was being held at Dartmouth House of Corrections in North Dartmouth, Mass., and was transported March 25 to Bristol County Superior Court in New Bedford, Mass., DeGouveia said. While there, Flye jumped over a second-floor balcony railing to the ground floor and injured himself, he said.

Flye was taken by ambulance to a local hospital with a court security guard in attendance, DeGouveia said. Court security removed handcuffs from Flye for medical reasons, he said, and Flye went to the bathroom and escaped the building.

He was being held on $500,000 cash bail.

The search has made “America’s Most Wanted” list and may be seen on the Web site www.amw.com.

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is offering a $5,000 reward for information that results in the capture and arrest of Flye, who is described as 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with hazel and brown eyes and a medium build.

White said he and Franklin County Sheriff Detective David St. Laurent worked with detectives from a Massachusetts anti-crime unit on Sunday and Monday to interview people in the Franklin County area who know Flye.

“Flye has been up here numerous times and is known to other folks here,” White said. “We’ve interviewed quite a few, and they haven’t seen him. He knows the area, and when people are on the run they go to a place they feel comfortable.”

DeGouveia also said Flye had worked for a construction company in Farmington and that Flye has family in the Blue Hill area. Besides Maine, the search is ongoing in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he said. U.S. Border Patrol on the Canadian border has also been notified, he said.

Flye also spent time in a Maine State Prison and was released about seven years ago.

Anyone with information is asked to contact White at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office at 778-2680 or DeGouveia at 1-508-400-0526.