Mar. 3—PARIS — An Oxford man who led police on a high-speed chase during a snowstorm this week had his bail set at $250 money Friday.
Dawson Bond, 20, appeared in South Paris District Courtroom by videoconference from Oxford County Jail, the place he had been held since his arrest in Oxford on Thursday.
He faces a number of prices stemming from his alleged flight from police when an officer tried to cease his car for suspected registration and inspection violations, police stated.
Decide Tammy Ham-Johnson ordered Bond’s bail set at $250 money with the situation that he not drive except correctly licensed.
Norway lawyer Maurice Porter stated Bond’s household employed him to signify Bond although Bond was discovered to be partially indigent and would have been appointed an lawyer by the court docket.
In keeping with jail officers, Bond was charged with eluding an officer and passing a roadblock, each felonies, every punishable by as much as 5 years in jail.
He is also going through 5 misdemeanor prices, together with violation of situation of launch, driving to hazard, working whereas license suspended or revoked, attaching false plates and failure to cease, stay and supply info, every cost punishable by as much as six months in jail.
Bond did not enter pleas Friday as a result of felony prices should be introduced to a grand jury to go to trial, except the defendant had been to waive indictment.
He’s due again in court docket in June.
Police stated Bond was driving a GMC pickup truck on Skeetfield Highway in Oxford during a snowstorm when a neighborhood police officer noticed the car had registration and inspection violations.
The officer tried to drag the truck over, however Bond did not cease and commenced passing different automobiles erratically to elude the officer, police stated.
The truck was the car parking zone of Ocean State Job Lot on Route 26 and continued into the car parking zone of Goodwin’s Chevrolet, police stated. The truck turned again onto Most important Avenue southbound and struck a passing motorist, police stated.
As Bond approached the intersection of Most important Avenue and Fore Avenue, an officer set up a roadblock with a spike mat, which Bond was in a position to keep away from, however almost struck a tractor-trailer, police stated.
He turned onto Fore Avenue, then misplaced management and the chase led to a driveway, the place Bond was taken into custody, police stated.
