The driver who fled the scene after a U-Haul van crashed into a tree on Interstate 95 in central Maine, killing a passenger and sparking a search that temporarily shut the highway earlier this week, was taken into custody on Thanksgiving.

Tyler Hewitt, of Presque Isle, was arrested Thursday afternoon after Clinton police responded to a call of a suspicious person walking on Hill Road, according to Maine State Police, who said responding officers canvassed the area and located the 31-year-old after he emerged from the woods near I-95.

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Police confirmed Hewitt was driving on a suspended license when he was involved in the fatal crash in Clinton on Tuesday morning that claimed the life of 38-year-old John Perkins, of

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