FARMINGTON – A Phillips man is being on a fugitive-from-justice charge at the Franklin County jail on a warrant from Florida charging battery, police said.

Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandy Burke arrested Nicholas Hansen, 24, in Rangeley on Monday on a charge of driving after suspension, Lt. Niles Yeaton said.

Burke had been traveling on Route 4 and noticed a traffic violation with the vehicle, Yeaton said, and went after it. The vehicle turned into the Rangeley IGA parking lot and Hansen got out of the vehicle in the back of the store and ran toward the front of it when Burke caught up to him, Yeaton said.

Burke ran Hansen’s information through the National Computer Information System and there was a warrant out for his arrest in Florida on a minor charge, Yeaton said.

The Florida department was contacted and initially said it wouldn’t extradite Hansen to that state, so he was released from jail after he posted $250 cash bail, Yeaton said.

Later, a message was relayed from Maine State Police to the Franklin County department that the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department in Florida would extradite Hansen on other charges, Yeaton said.

Hansen was arrested again Tuesday on a fugitive from justice charge and is being held at the jail in Farmington until the Florida department comes to get him, Yeaton said.

A spokesperson for the Pinellas County department said Thursday that a warrant was issued for Hansen on a battery, or assault, charge in that state on Aug. 25.