Getaway driver in Lebanon call-girl caper arrested

Gene Dares (York County Jail photo)

SACO, Maine - The driver of a getaway vehicle in an armed robbery that took place in Lebanon in March was arrested today after a task force that included State Police, the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency caught up with him in Saco, Maine.

Gene Dares, 23, was charged with felony robbery for allegedly being the driver in a prostitution caper in which a female, who was propositioned by a Lebanon man to come to his residence to perform a sex act, pulled a gun from her bag and demanded his cash, State Police Sgt. Robert Burke said today.

The March 20 incident resulted in the arrest of Heather Lewis, 26, who allegedly produced the weapon and robbed the unnamed Lebanon man of $130.

Another female, Bobbi Jeanne Bouthot, 23, was also arrested on warrants resulting from the incident.

Both women have been released on bail.

Dares, meanwhile, has an extensive criminal history, was known to possess guns, and the task force had been looking for him as he was believed staying in the Biddeford area.

Police, acting on a tip this morning that Dares was a passenger in a red Chevrolet Blazer traveling north on the Maine Turnpike, stopped his SUV in Saco using marked and unmarked cruisers.

An unarmed Dares was quickly taken into custody at gunpoint, police said. Two others in the vehicle were not charged. 

Dares was transported to the York County Jail where he is being held on $50,000 bail pending an arraignment.

Police would not identify the Lebanon man who was robbed.