PARIS – An 18-year-old Hebron youth who spent Tuesday night lost in the woods after crashing an ATV has been charged with possessing the stolen machine, police said.
Timothy Robbins was issued a court summons, Sgt. Michael Dailey said Friday. Because the ATV was found at the scene of the accident in Hebron, Dailey said he had enough evidence to bring the charge.
Besides being summoned, Robbins was also arrested on warrants charging failure to pay a fine for drunken driving, failure to pay a fine for not stopping for a police officer, and failure to appear in court on a charge of writing a bad check, according to Oxford County Jail records.
A search for Robbins began Tuesday evening after ATV rider Victor Ortiz reported to police that he had seen a bleeding and shaken Robbins, an acquaintance of his, and a crashed ATV on a trail off Sodom Road in Hebron. When Ortiz returned later with state wardens to help Robbins, the teenager had disappeared, said Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife spokesman Mark Latti.
Robbins stumbled out of the woods onto Goodrich Road on Wednesday afternoon with a head injury and was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway for stitches, Latti said.
After treatment, Paris police asked him why he was riding a stolen ATV, but he said he couldn’t remember the events preceding the crash, Dailey said.
“He said he had no recollection of even being on an ATV,” Dailey said. “He had a pretty significant head laceration and had been in the woods for 20 hours, so there was a good possibility of details he could not recall.”
Dailey said he learned from wardens searching for Robbins on Tuesday night that the ATV matched one reported missing from East Main Street in Paris on Sept. 24.
Information on its owner, make and damage was not available Friday.
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