Scarborough police say an Old Orchard Beach man stole an automatic teller machine from the Eight Corners Market on Mussey Road Sunday and drove off with it in a pickup truck.
Then, when police stopped the truck, the driver rammed a cruiser and led police on a 4-mile chase before they were able to apprehend him and recover the ATM machine, according to a police report.
Brian S. Andrews, 31, was arrested and charged with burglary, theft, aggravated assault, aggravated criminal mischief, eluding a police officer and refusing to submit to arrest. A preliminary investigation indicated that the 2010 Ford F-250 pickup that Andrew was driving had been stolen from an Auburn car dealership, according to Sgt. John O’Malley. The vehicle is valued at $52,000, police said.
Police said that shortly before 11 p.m. on Sunday, they responded to a burglar alarm at the Eight Corners Market at 49 Mussey Road. Police found that the front entry doors and the vestibule of the business had been pulled away from the building and seriously damaged. Inside the store, the ATM machine was missing.
Acting on a tip from a witness, who reported seeing a pickup truck with an ATM machine in back, an officer stopped the vehicle on Gorham Road. Police said the truck initially stopped for police, but then, when the officer got out of his cruiser, it backed up and rammed into the cruiser, seriously damaging it. The officer was unhurt, but the pickup sped off, several feet of metal chains hanging behind it, the police report said.
Police officers chased the truck on Route 207 until it crashed into a guardrail. They said the suspect got out of the vehicle and ran off and police gave chase. They said they found Andrews hiding among rocks on a nearby beach.
As of Monday afternoon, Andrews was being held at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland with his bail set at $10,000 cash, according to a jail official.
O’Malley said he does not know how much money was in the ATM machine because as of Monday afternoon, it had yet to be opened and its contents counted.
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