Lewiston, ME man charged with attempted armed robbery in Dorchester

Boston Police report officers stuck in traffic on Dot. Ave. near Adams Street yesterday afternoon watched a suspicious looking guy run out of a doorway, knock a woman down, grab her purse, then run away.

Officers immediately exited their unmarked cruiser and chased the suspect on foot through several streets and alleys and eventually caught the suspect on Lincoln Street. Once caught with a knife and after being "Mirandized", the suspect stated, "I wasn't going to use the knife... I would never hurt her, I just need to feed the kids."

Jamie Brown, 22, of Lewiston, ME, will be arraigned in Dorchester District Court today.

The arrest is the latest example of the crime link between Lewiston and Dorchester and Roxbury. In 2010, Boston Police linked two Boston murders to Lewiston: In one case, a Lewiston man was charged with helping to gun down a man in Roxbury, in the other, a Boston man was arrested in Lewiston on charges he murdered a Lewiston woman and shot up her drug-dealing acquaintance in a car in Dorchester. In 2008, a Boston man was convicted of selling cocaine in Lewiston.

Innocent, etc.