Teens who escaped Maine prison arrested after crashes in two states

Two teens who escaped from a South Portland prison have been arrested in Massachusetts and Maine after allegedly crashing cars they had stolen.

The first youth, whose identity hasn’t been released, was caught without incident about 5:14 a.m. Tuesday in Georgetown, Massachusetts, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.

South Portland police said that the 16-year-old was arrested after crashing a Porsche he allegedly stole in Hampton, New Hampshire, earlier this morning.

That comes after the Friday night escape from Long Creek Youth Development Center, the state’s only youth prison. Two teens are believed to have escaped.

Not long after the escape, the 16-year-old and the second suspect, 18-year-old Davyn Flynn of Portland, forcibly removed a woman from her vehicle on Liberty Lane, not far from Long Creek, according to the South Portland Police Department. They allegedly claimed to have a weapon, which wasn’t displayed during the robbery.

Both teens are wanted in South Portland on charges of robbery, criminal threatening, assault and terrorizing.

Biddeford police on Tuesday arrested Flynn after a hit-and-run crash in the city in which the driver fled the scene. The vehicle in the crash had been reported stolen from Scarborough earlier that morning.

Police found Flynn in the area and took him into custody. As of Tuesday afternoon, South Portland police said he was scheduled to be brought to Cumberland County Jail.

BDN writer Ethan Andrews contributed to this story.