DATE: Friday, May
02, 2014
STATE OF MAINE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
MAINE STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
PREPARED BY:Sgt.
Robert Burke
207-807-7823
Tr. Michael
Pappas
A
DATE/TIME:05-01-2014
I-95
Biddeford Area
Arrest on
Warrant – Robbery (Class A)
Gene
Dares
35
Biddeford,
ME.
$50,000
Y
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
MAINE STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
PREPARED BY:
DATE/TIME:
On 5/1/2014, a joint task force that included the Maine
State Police Troop A, Maine State Police Proactive Criminal Enforcement
Team, US Marshal’s Violent Fugitive Task Force, and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency
arrested GENE DARES DOB 6/10/1978, on a Class A Robbery Warrant. DARES was the
getaway driver in an armed robbery that occurred in Lebanon on 3/20/2014, in
which HEATHER LEWIS DOB 4/2/1988 produced a gun and robbed the victim of
$130.00. Both LEWIS and another accomplice, BOBBI JEANNE BOUTHOT DOB 8/24/1990
had previously been arrested on warrants regarding the incident. DARES has an
extensive criminal history, and according to multiple sources, was known to
possess guns.
The task
force had information DARES was staying in the Biddeford area. Going off an
anonymous tip, DARES was expected to be a passenger in a Red Chevy Blazer
bearing ME PC 3945 SN. The task force located the vehicle travelling North on
I-95. In a subsequent high-risk felony stop, DARES was taken into custody
without incident. DARES was transported to the York County Jail where he is
being held on $50,000 bail.
CUSTODY LOCATION: York County
Jail
