LIVERMORE FALLS — Police continue to look for the driver of a white 1999 Toyota car that was clocked on police radar going 82 mph in a 35-mph zone on Park Street last week, Lt. Thomas Gould said.
Police have a suspect in the incident, which occurred Sept. 1, he said Friday. The last known driver of the Toyota called police the next day and reported that the vehicle had been stolen in front of a friend’s house on Church Street in Jay, Gould said.
Witnesses also reported the same car was being driven erratically earlier Sept. 1 day and passed several vehicles in a short distance on Park Street, also known as Route 133, Gould said. It could not be located at that time, he said.
About 6 p.m. Sept. 1, Officer Stephen Allen and Gould attempted to stop the vehicle after it went by the officers speeding near Isaacson’s Lumber, Gould said. By the time the cruiser turned around, the vehicle could not be found, he said.
A concerned citizen called the dispatch center and reported that the car went down the dead-end Diamond Road toward the town’s transfer station, Gould said. While on the Diamond Road, officers met with a witness who reported that his vehicle was nearly struck head-on by the Toyota, he said. It was still reported to have been driving at a very high rate of speed.
Police found the abandoned Toyota behind the Jug Hill Snowmobile Club House on Diamond Road, he said.
DNA evidence collected at the scene was to be analyzed at the state crime laboratory.
Police called Maine State Police Trooper Scott Dalton with his police dog and started to track the driver after finding the car.
Investigators believe the suspects were picked up somewhere on Park Street, Gould said.
The Toyota was towed and is being held at Allie Bond’s Auto Body in East Livermore.
dperry@sunjournal.com
Send questions/comments to the editors.
