One of at least two vehicles involved in a crash Tuesday night is hauled onto a wrecker at the intersection of Main and Canal streets in Lewiston. Joe Charpentier/Sun Journal

LEWISTON — Skyler Henson, the 25-year-old Auburn man accused of vandalizing 75 cars at an Auburn dealership over the weekend, was released from jail on lowered bail Monday only to be involved in a multi-car pileup in Lewiston and a short foot chase a day later, police said on Wednesday.

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Henson, who had recently been released from jail on bail lowered to $150, was charged with driving to endanger, driving with a suspended license, violating conditions of release and leaving the scene of an accident with injury.

He had been held on $5,000 after his arrest Saturday at the dealership where about $100,000 in damage was done to at least 75 vehicles. On Monday, District Court Judge Sarah Churchill lowered his bail and Henson was released on the condition that he remain confined to a home in Greene, according to court records.

At about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, police were called to a multiple car crash at Main and Canal streets in Lewiston. Police said the driver who had caused the crash drove from the scene and proceeded to crash into other vehicles.

Police ultimately found the suspect’s vehicle on Lisbon Street. The driver, they said, attempted to flee but was captured almost immediately. Arrested once more, Henson was taken into custody and returned to the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.

He was being held there Wednesday without bail.

Henson was arrested Saturday after damaging at least 75 vehicles at Rowe Auburn on Center Street. Police said Henson swung a weighted backpack, smashing the windows and hoods in the car lot.

The caller who reported the crime advised officers he would prefer to speak to them in person and that “the sooner police arrived the less damage there would be.”

Henson was arrested without incident at the dealership.

It was not immediately clear why Henson’s bail was lowered from $5,000 to $150. According to court documents, conditions of the lowered bail should have kept Henson under house arrest at a home on Quaker Ridge Road in Greene.

Instead, police said, Henson took off in his parent’s car and drove to Lewiston where he crashed and tried to run from police.

In June, the governor and others criticized the actions of Churchill, the district court judge who had reduced the bail of a defendant who, once released, went on to attack a woman and her boyfriend and set a fire that destroyed two homes.

In that case, the bail for 43-year-old Leein Amos Hinkley had been lowered from $5,000 to $1,500 after Hinkley was arrested for domestic assault and probation violations.

Shortly after his release from jail, police said Hinkley attacked the woman and a man at her Russell Avenue home in Auburn and set a fire that destroyed the house and a neighboring residence, officials said.

While the woman escaped to safety, Hinkley was fatally shot by a state police officer on a Russell Avenue rooftop after an hours-long standoff. Human remains believed to be the woman’s boyfriend were later found in the rubble of the woman’s home.

Gov. Janet Mills later rebuked Churchill for reducing Hinkley’s bail.

In court again on Wednesday, Churchill ordered an evaluation to determine if Henson, said to suffer with mental health issues, is competent to stand trial on the charges against him.