Portland man killed after high-speed chase

Submitted by David Hench on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:22

The man killed in a fiery crash following a high-speed chase Thursday was a Portland man who had no license and was recently released from prison, police said.

The State Medical Examiner today identified the man as Luis Andrades-Garcia, 35.

Andrades-Garcia was driving north on the Maine Turnpike in a car he borrowed from a friend in Massachusetts when he passed a State Police cruiser in Auburn. Police had received reports of an erratic motorist.

When the officer tried to pull him over, Andrades-Garcia sped off reaching 100 mph. The car hit a guard rail and the rear of a tractor trailer truck passing through a construction zone in Lewiston. It flipped over and caught fire, and Andrades-Garcia was killed, police said.

The driver of the tractor trailer was not injured.

Police said Andrades-Garcia recently served time in the Maine Correctional Center in Windham for a drug conviction.

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It may be callous, but at

Submitted by Bill Miller on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 18:42.

It may be callous, but at least we won't have to support him anymore.