LEWISTON — A car driven in a high-speed chase through the Twin Cities on Thursday morning was found abandoned in Buckfield a short time later.

The silver Pontiac G6, four-door sedan was discovered off Sodom Road, Lewiston Lt. David St. Pierre said. Investigators initially believed it was the car used in an attempted robbery in Greene on Wednesday, but that turned out to not be the case, police said later Thursday.

The police pursuit began at Main Street and Strawberry Avenue when the car failed to stop for a police cruiser that was trying to pull the car over for a traffic infraction, St. Pierre said.

The cruiser followed the car through Auburn and Minot, but lost sight of it near Center Minot Hill Road and gave up the pursuit, according to St. Pierre.

The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office later found the unattended car in a field off Sodom Road in Buckfield. Later in the day, the Maine State Police tactical team was searching for the occupants on the ground, while a state police airplane circled above.

A silver Pontiac sedan was thought to be the getaway car for three suspects Wednesday in an attempted robbery in Greene. That car was similar to the one involved in Thursday’s chase, police said, but it proved to be a different vehicle.

The search for the suspects in the Greene incident was ongoing.

A silver Pontiac G6 was abandoned near a hiking trail off Sodom Road in Buckfield after a police chase Thursday. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)

A Maine State Police tactical team searches the woods near the Buckfield-Hebron line for suspects who abandoned a vehicle in the area following a morning chase that started in Lewiston. (Submitted photo)

A Maine State Police tactical team searches the woods near the Buckfield-Hebron line Thursday for suspects who abandoned a vehicle after a car chase that started in Lewiston. (Submitted photo)