AUBURN — Two men wanted in Massachusetts were arrested Tuesday in Auburn on charges stemming from a weekend car crash involving an injured state trooper.
The U.S. Marshals Service tracked down Luis Gonzales, 29, and Andy Escarfuller, 22, at a home in Auburn about 9:45 a.m. after a leaving the scene of a crash in Massachusetts on Saturday in which a state trooper was injured, according to Deputy U.S. Marshal Ryan Guay.
Gonzales was arrested on Massachusetts warrants charging assault and battery with a deadly weapon, negligent operation, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident and other charges connected to the crash.
Escarfuller was arrested on a Massachusetts warrant charging child rape, Guay wrote in a media statement.
Gonzales had reportedly been driving a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash. Shortly afterward, Massachusetts State Police found him and the vehicle he had been driving, Guay wrote.
As police sought to apprehend Gonzales, the vehicle he was driving reportedly crashed head-on into a Massachusetts State Police vehicle. He backed up, then while trying to flee the scene, intentionally struck a trooper who was outside his cruiser, Guay wrote.
Escarfuller was apparently a passenger in the vehicle reportedly driven by Gonzales, Guay wrote.
The Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, Maine State Police and U.S. Marshals Service developed information that Gonzales had fled to a home in Auburn. U.S. Marshal Service Task Force members arrested Gonzales on Tuesday in a stolen from Massachusetts and found at the Auburn home.
Escarfuller also was at the home and was arrested.
Both men were taken to Androscoggin County Jail on fugitive from justice charges pending extradition to Massachusetts, Guay wrote.
U.S. Marshals Service District of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section and Maine State Police assisted the U.S. Marshals Service District of Maine Violent Offenders Task Force with the investigation. The U.S. Marshals Service Maine Violent Offenders Task Force is composed of members of the Maine State Police, Maine Department of Corrections, Biddeford Police Department, and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
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