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Associated Press - September 3, 2009 7:45 AM ET
BREWER, Maine (AP) - Police in Brewer, Maine, arrested a convicted murderer from Vermont after he allegedly led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car.
Police say 62-year-old Kent Hanson stole the car from a parking lot Wednesday. An officer later spotted the car and attempted to stop it, but a high-speed chase started. Police laid spike mats along the route and the car finally was forced to a halt near a utility pole.
The Bangor Daily News reports Hanson, who suffered minor injuries, was charged on multiple counts.
Hanson, of Brattleboro, Vt., served 20 years in a Vermont prison for the 1985 murder of a woman. Before that, he spent six years in a state hospital after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1964 killing of his wife.
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