On Monday, South Portland Police released the identities of one of the two male teens who escaped from South Portland’s Long Creek Youth Development Center on Friday and allegedly fled in a stolen car.
Davyn Flynn, 18, of Portland, was the older of the two youths who are accused of escaping from the juvenile detention center and then stealing a car from a nearby parking lot before fleeing.
Police released a photo of Flynn from a recent booking at Cumberland County Jail.
The other suspect is a 16-year-old male, whose name police said will not be released at this time.
An earlier statement from Maine Department of Corrections did not identify either of the two suspects, citing confidentiality laws.
In a Monday press release, Lt. Christopher Todd of the South Portland Police Department said that on the evening of Friday, July 26, shortly before 7:30 p.m., police responded to the Liberty Commons apartment complex parking lot for a reported robbery.
Lt. Todd said that a female victim reported being forcibly removed by two unknown males who threatened to use a weapon but did not display one, and that they then stole her vehicle.
Police were able to locate the victim’s vehicle in Casco on Saturday morning, where it was brought to the South Portland Police station for evidentiary processing, Todd said.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Flynn and for the unidentified 16-year-old male suspect on charges of robbery, criminal threatening, assault and terrorizing.
A Maine Department of Corrections spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for updated information on their search for the two teens, and for comment on why they did not originally release Flynn’s identity to the public.
UPDATE: The 16-year-old male suspect was arrested on Tuesday morning in Georgetown, Mass.
South Portland Police said in a press release that Georgetown police were responding to a single vehicle crash shortly after 5 a.m. on Tuesday when they located the suspect in a Porsche that had been stolen from Hampton, N.H., earlier that morning.
The Maine Department of Corrections stated that they were notified of the juvenile’s identity by Georgetown Police after the 16-year-old crashed the stolen Porsche.
The juvenile was taken into custody without incident.
Flynn, however, remains at large.
“South Portland Police are working with law enforcement partners in New Hampshire and Massachusetts as the investigation continues,” the department said on Tuesday.
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