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CASCO – A Casco man has been charged in connection with an Aug. 29 crash on Route 11 that killed a man and boy after the driver of the vehicle they were riding in tried to evade police.

Nicholas Sparrow, 20, of Casco, was arrested in Parsonsfield and charged with two counts of manslaughter and charges of aggravated eluding police, aggravated driving while intoxicated and violating conditions of probation. Sparrow was arrested at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday and taken to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland. He remained there Wednesday night with no bail.

Thomas St. Saviour, 29, of Hiram and 14-year-old Michael Daye of  Baldwin were both killed in the 1:14 a.m. accident on Route 11, also known as Poland Spring Road, in Casco. The two were passengers in a 1993 Infinity driven by Sparrow, police said.

The vehicle belonged to Sparrow’s girlfriend, who was not in the car at the time of the crash.

According to a statement issued by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy attempted to pull Sparrow over for speeding and driving without headlights on Route 11 just minutes before the crash. Sparrow was traveling from the area of Route 302 and initially pulled over after about a mile, but then took off at a high rate of speed.

The deputy lost sight of the car but came upon it about two miles down Route 11, where it had crashed into a stand of trees just off the road in an area known as Rye Field Flats.

St. Saviour and Daye were pronounced dead at the scene. Sparrow was transported by LifeFlight to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

Sparrow is expected to be arraigned in Portland District Court on Thursday.

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