California fugitive captured

Ronald Lewis Sr
By Elna Seabrooks
Staff Writer
    HOULTON — A fugitive from California, also wanted in connection with assault charges in Littleton, offered no resistance when he was arrested in Houlton and taken into custody May 7 at approximately 4:30 p.m. according to Craig Clossey, chief deputy of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office.
    Local law enforcement personnel were tracking movements of Ronald Lewis Sr., a 40-year-old male, due to an alleged assault with a baseball bat on his 18-year-old son in Littleton at 266 Carmichael Road on May 5. According to police reports, the son was treated at Houlton Regional Hospital and released with non-life threatening injuries.
    When he was apprehended, Clossey said Lewis offered no resistance. “We located him and we got him down by the Meduxnekeag River near the railroad trestle in the bushes.” Clossey added that the successful arrest was the result of cooperation between the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office and law-enforcement officers from the Houlton Police Department, Maine State Police and the U.S. Border Patrol. “We used investigative means to piece together information from combined sources,” explained Clossey. He said Lewis appeared to be in good condition when he was taken into custody.
    In addition to being charged with a parole violation subsequent to release from California State Prison, Lewis is also charged in connection with the alleged incident in Littleton for aggravated assault, assault and terrorizing. At presstime he was being held at the Aroostook County Jail.
Juvenile at EMMC for overdose
     A 15-year-old female was stabilized at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) Saturday morning after an overdose of drugs, according to Detective Carolyn Crandall of the Houlton Police Department.
    The young woman is expected to make a full recovery, according to Crandall, and remains in ICU at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where she was transported following initial treatment at HRH.