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U.S. Marshals Arrest Man Accused of Strangling 5-Year-Old in Peabody During Lewiston Raid

Investigators traced him to Lewiston based on a stolen car recovered in Maine.

Overview

  • Dominque Bailey, 35, was taken into custody Tuesday morning after a forced-entry arrest by a U.S. Marshals task force in Lewiston.
  • He is wanted in Massachusetts on warrants including three counts of assault and battery on a family or household member and strangulation or suffocation.
  • Officials say he fled Peabody in the child’s mother’s vehicle, which Androscoggin County deputies recovered in Maine weeks earlier.
  • At the time of the alleged assault, Bailey was on probation in Maine for robbery and now faces a probation-violation charge.
  • He has been charged as a fugitive from justice, will be arraigned on Maine charges in the coming days, and awaits extradition to Massachusetts.