Lagrange Man To Serve 5 Years For Fleeing Police In Stolen Cars, Including Police Cruiser

A 23-year-old LaGrange man who stole two separate vehicles last spring — a Dexter police cruiser and a Toyota Celica belonging to a veteran of the Iraq War — and led authorities on a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed the Celica will serve five years of a 10-year sentence. Appearing at the Penobscot Judicial Center on Wednesday afternoon, Tyler Tibbetts pleaded guilty to a half-dozen felony charges, including one that stemmed from an unrelated case in which he stole a vehicle in January 2018. [Man accused of stealing Dexter cruiser indicted on slew of charges] Besides his incarceration, Tibbetts faces three years of probation in connection with the May 11, 2018, chase and was ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to the owner of the Toyota Celica that he stole and crashed after driving over police spikes.