LEWISTON — Police said two men were arrested in Saco on Saturday after one robbed a Lisbon Street bank, fled in a waiting minivan and later led a high-speed chase that ended when the minivan was rammed by a trooper.

Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Neil West, 64, and Joseph Richards, 46, both of New Hampshire, were taken to the Cumberland County Jail and face charges from the FBI.

“West was arrested driving the minivan that they chased at speeds over 100 mph,” McCausland said. “State troopers spotted the car along the turnpike and that’s when the chase began, ending in Saco when state troopers rammed the car to end the chase because it was heading into a residential area.”

Richards bailed out of the minivan and took off on foot. After a manhunt involving troopers, the FBI, Saco, Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach police, he was arrested an hour later a mile away on Ferry Road, McCausland said.

The pursuit started in the morning after the bank at the corner of Lisbon Street and Androscoggin Avenue was robbed.

Lewiston Lt. Michael McGonagle said that at 8:45 a.m. a man walked into the TD Bank at 790 Lisbon St., demanded money, showed a gun and fled with an undisclosed amount.

“(He) got into a waiting car across the street at the Sullivan Tire and then he took off on Lisbon Street,” he said. “We got a good description from some eyewitnesses of the vehicle.”

Lewiston police alerted local agencies as well as Maine State Police, McGonagle said. “We believed they may have gone on the turnpike, and Maine State Police caught him down in Saco. They went to pull (the minivan) over, a short chase ensued.”

No injuries were reported at TD Bank.

McCausland said he didn’t know which of the two men went into the bank. The case was being handed over to the FBI. A spokeswoman in Boston declined further comment.

A Cumberland County Jail official said late Saturday that the jail didn’t have permission from the FBI to release the charges against the two men.

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