EUSTIS – A Carrabassett Valley man was arrested on a number of charges Thursday evening, after he allegedly fled from police multiple times last night.
Matthew Willihan, 39 of Carrabassett Valley, has been charged by Maine State Police for refusing to submit to arrest and unlawful possession of a scheduled drug. He has also been charged by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office for felony eluding an officer and two misdemeanors: falsifying physical evidence and criminal speed.
According to Sheriff Scott Nichols, a complaint was received by law enforcement about a man in a green Subaru acting strangely near Bald Mountain Camps in Rangeley. The Rangeley Police Department took the initial call and was unable to locate the vehicle. However, while traveling towards Rangeley from Eustis on Route 16, FCSO Chief Deputy Steven Lowell saw the Subaru.
Lowell turned and pulled over the vehicle, Nichols said, noticing that the driver was driving erratically and had thrown a white powder out his window. The Subaru stopped and the operator initially complied, but then fled in the vehicle. Lowell eventually terminated his pursuit and notified Maine State Police.
Trooper Andrew Hardy picked up the pursuit and eventually caught the driver behind the White Wolf Inn in Stratton, Nichols said. The operator exited his vehicle and a brief foot chase ensued, concluding with Hardy arresting the man later identified as Willihan. Cocaine was found in the Subaru.
In addition to FCSO and MSP, U.S. Border Patrol agents assisted local law enforcement.
Willihan was transported to Franklin County Detention Center in Farmington.
Listen kids, if you do drugs, you will end up with a hair cut like this guy. JUST SAY NO!
I am sure he was headed down to the national drug take back day and was just a little early. Must of found the devil’s dust in a empty parking lot.
The commentators above represent the worst of forums like this. They take some sort of pleasure writing snide comments about people and things they have no clue about. What Matthew did was wrong, but do you know the whole story? Do you know this young man who is a son, brother and friend to people who care deeply about him? Do you know the tremendous pain and suffering he has endured through no fault of his own?…probably not. We do not have to excuse what happened, but we can be kind.
to DR: If this young man is in need of help, why isn’t he in a place where he is getting what he needs? Rather than feeling sorry for him and the life he has had to live….. you, as a DR should have him admitted somewhere!!
to DR: While I may feel sorry about whatever it might be that Matthew has suffered, I am not inclined to be feeling particularly warm and fuzzy regarding the danger he presented to the innocent people sharing those roads while he was driving impaired and erratically at high speeds. As for the comments, I think they reflect the frustration many of us feel that a few snide and snarky comments will be severest punishment he receives in our revolving door of wrist-slapping and sending ’em back out to do it all over again.
That first comment gave me the best laugh of the day. I don’t think we need to be kind to him in this particular incident. He shamed himself, his family and friends. So yeah, put him in the stocks and throw rotten tomatoes.
Fred Flintstone has nothing on him.