June 26 and 29, 2015: Ludlow
Ludlow Road
Read Houlton area meth chemical accident leads to 2 arrests

Arrested: James Anthony, 30, of Ludlow and Kayla Nason, 25, of Houlton
Anthony and Nason were charged with manufacturing methamphetamine after Nason was taken to the hospital and treated for burns caused by accidental exposure to toxic chemicals.The search and seizure of a vehicle with evidence of a meth lab led to the two arrests.

June 17 and 29, 2015: Houlton
Columbia Street
Read Six more charged in Houlton meth operation

Arrested: Toni Bulley, Earl Little, Jr., Mataya Gardiner, Jesse Case, Bruce King, Crystal Cameron, Gary Gardiner (not pictured)
Toni Bulley, 48, was arrested on July 17 after evidence of methamphetamine manufacturing was discovered in a Houlton apartment building. The discovery led ann investigation to discover people who might have procured material, such as pseudoephedrine, used for the production of meth. Two weeks later, Case, Little, Cameron, Mataya Gardiner and King were arrested and charged with trafficing in schedule W drugs. Gary Gardiner was also arrested and charged with aggravated trafficking because of a prior felony drug conviction.

April 25, 2015: Standish
1 Woodland Avenue
Read Maine siblings removed from home for third time in drug cases

Arrested: Timothy Schoubroek, 32, and Tressa Sprague, 35
Responding to reports of a family disturbance, Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies saw a suspected meth lab. Officials found that five children were living in the house with their grandmother. Two of the children had recently been removed from their New Sharon home after officials arrested their parents in March of this year for manufacturing meth.

April 9, 2015: Linneus
Route 2A
Read Meth lab bust in Linneus, 2 arrested

Arrested: Alan Gilotti and Nicole Hall, both 28
MDEA dismantled a meth lab after receiving a tip from Department of Health and Human Services that a four-year-old was living in the mobile home. No one has been charged in connection with the meth lab. Gilotti was charged with violating bail conditions stemming from a previous meth arrest and Hall was charged with possession of methamphetamine.

March 27, 2015: New Sharon
45 Farmington Falls Road
Read New Sharon couple arrested again on drug charges

Arrested: Daniel Villacci, 28, and Tabatha Schoubroek, 30
Acting on a tip from the Farmington PD, MDEA agents and Franklin Co. Sheriff’s deputies found evidence of a meth lab at the Farmington Falls Road house. Two young children were living at the house. Villaci and Schoubroek were arrested a year ago at the same address when two children came home from school and found them unresponsive. The couple had overdosed on heroin.

March 19, 2015: Ellsworth
153 State Street
Read Maine drug agents dismantle suspected meth lab in Ellsworth

Arrested: No arrests
During a bail check on a resident of a State Street apartment on March 18, officers saw what they believed to be material used to make meth. All apartments in the building were evacuated. The MDEA’s clandestine lab team and Ellsworth officers entered the apartment the next morning with a search warrant.

March 11, 2015: Brunswick
250 Bath Road
Read Maine drug agents say Brunswick man was making meth in his car

Arrested: Aric J. Hall, 34, of Brunswick

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officers approached Hall’s car which was in the parking lot of the Lowe’s on Bath Road in the early evening. Hall told the agents that there was an active meth lab in his car. Hall was arrested and taken to Cumberland County Jail. After a search warrant was issued, agents removed the one-pot lab from the car and destroyed the hazardous materials.

March 4, 2015: Lebanon
Gilbert Farm Road
Read Three charged with making meth in Bar Harbor

Arrested: Joy Levesque, 40, of Bar Harbor; Elwood Carter, 48, and Melissa Morse, 46, both of Surry

Bar Harbor police and Maine Drug Enforcement agents arrested the occupants of the Gilbert Farm Road residence on bail violations and on an outstanding warrant. After the house was searched and officers found evidence of methamphetamine production, Levesque, Carter and Morse were charged with Felony , Class B Trafficking in Schedule W Drugs.

February 10, 2015: Lebanon
Read Lebanon residents face charges in meth lab investigation

Arrested: Dana Lovely, 39, and Caren Polk, 52

Maine Drug Enforcement agents and state troopers executed a search warrant at the Hersom Lane residence of Lovely and Polk. They found a number of one-pot meth labs and immediately removed the two from the residence. The next day the MDEA sent a special team into the home to dismantle the labs.

January 7, 2015: Vinalhaven
Read Three charged with meth trafficking on Vinalhaven

Arrested: Hilary Walker, 20, and Owen Adair, 23, of Vinalhaven and Ryan Rairdon, 25, of Houlton

Prompted by a complaint about a possible meth lab, Knox County Sheriff’s deputies confirmed that a meth had been manufactured in shed on the island. Adair, Rairdon and Walker were charged and transported to Rockland by the Maine Marine Patrol. The investigation expanded to Overlook Hill Road in Union and is ongoing.

December 10, 2014: Brewer
35 Maple Street
Arrested: Jorge Irizarry, 32; Thomas White, 56; Kevin Frost, 54; Robert Davis, 36; Melissa Morse, 46
Irizarry was arrested on an outstanding warrant and was charged with trafficking heroin and resisting arrest. Thomas White was arrested after leaving the Maple Street house on violations of release. Frost and Davis were arrested on active warrants and Morse was arrested for possession of schedule W drugs. The police obtained an search warrant for the Maple Street house on suspicion of a possible meth lab.

December 4, 2014: Searsport
Arrests announced
Read Three charged in multistate meth operation in Searsport
Arrested: Gerald Gustafson, 51 of Searsport; Thomas Reynolds, 50 of McDonald, Pa. and Marina Saravia, 54 of Golden Valley, Az.

Gustafson was arrested in September after receiving three packages containing methamphetamine. The packages were mailed by Reynolds, who was arrested in November, and Saravia who was arrested in Arizona on December 3.

November 22, 2014: Hodgdon
699 Walker Road
Read Maine drug agents shut down another meth lab at Hodgdon home
Arrested: James Boyce, 31
Police raided the residence on Walker Road for this second time. The previous raid, in March of this year, resulted in the arrest of Marcus Toner, also for trafficking in Schedule W Drugs.

Octber 30, 2014: Bath
50 Elm Street
Read
Bath police find meth lab, arrest couple
Arrested: James Scheider, 38, and Stacey Dykes, 36, both of Chiefland, Fla.
Dykes and Schreider were arrested after police noticed suspicious activity in a building several hundred feet from the police station. The pair were charged with aggravated trafficking because of the lab’s proximity to Morse High School.

October 27, 2014: Lewiston
Pond Road
Read Couple arrested after raid on suspected meth lab in Lewiston
Arrested: Ethel Hallock, 51 and Mark Theriault, 45

The couple were under investigation for several weeks. When the search warrant was served, there were seven people in the duplex, including three children under the age of 14.

October 21, 2014: Monticello
Lake Road
Arrested: Mathew Thibodeau, 27
Read Police raid suspected meth operations in East Millinocket, Monticello
Thibodeau was out of jail on bail when the police checked to make sure he was complying with bail conditions. During the bail search they found evidence of methamphetamine production at his residence.

October 21, 2014: East Millinocket
Main Street
Arrested: Beau Pelletier, 31, and Cynthia Burley, 33, both of East Millinocket
Read East Millinocket residents face drug charge
After investigating suspected drug activity in a Main Street house, police found evidence of meth manufacturing equipment in the trash and several grams of what was believed to be recently manufactured meth.

August 19, 2014: Oakfield
River Road
Arrested: Douglas Morin, 39, of Oakfield

Responding to a call that someone was “trying to burn the house down,” a Maine state trooper discovered residents seemingly under the influence of meth. There was also a strong chemical smell in the house. The trooper evacuated the building and arrested Morin on a domestic violence charge. After a search was conducted, Morin was also arrested on drug charges.

July 15, 2014: Phillips
Rangeley Road
Arrested: Jason Fowler, 39, of Chesterville; Kimberly Webber, 25, of Vienna; Michael Hale, 45, of Phillips; Erin Smith, 42, of Ocala, Fl.

Read Meth lab raid in Phillips leads to charges of trafficking.
Police say that Hale who had recently moved to the area with Smith, was teaching others to manufacture meth at their house where they kept 13 dogs. Fowler and Webber were arrested when Fowler was stopped for driving with a suspended license and the police spotted evidence of methamphetamine in the car.

July 9, 2014: Merrill
Clark Road
Arrested: Micah Lawlor, 38, and Jessica Tremblay, 26, both of Merrill
Read Man arrested in connection with suspected Aroostook County meth lab
Lawlor and Tremblay were arrrested at a remote camp in Merrill days after police had found 24 devices to cook meth in Lawlor’s house. Police had received a tip that camps had been broken into and when they investigated a camp on Clark Road they found and arrested Lawlor and Tremblay.

June 5, 2014: Ellsworth
18 Hancock Street
Arrested: Bridgett Spencer, 30, and Jack Lint, 34, both of Bangor; Stanley Swallow, 30, and Karen Ward, 51, both of Ellsworth

Acting on a tip, investigators obtained a search warrant for an apartment building at 18 Hancock St., a van and a dumpster adjacent to the building. They found evidence of methamphetamine production. All residents were evacuated from the building during the search.
Clockwise: Lint, Ward, Swallow, Spencer

June 3, 2014: Newfield
481 Stone Road
Arrested: Caitlin Bigelow, 26, of Waterboro
Read Waterboro woman arrested on meth trafficking charge
Deputies attempting to serve an eviction notice observed items outside the house used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, including gas generators made from soda bottles with rubber tubing attached to the bottle openings, and numerous empty packs of pseudoephedrine and cold packs. Ten “one pot” meth labs were found in the house. Caitlin Bigelow was arrested on September 23.

May 3, 2014: Sherman
Interstate 95
Arrested: Zachary Faulkner, 26, of Danforth

Read I-95 crash leads to meth charges against Danforth man
Maine State Police investigating a single car crash near Sherman on I-95 discovered the driver to be in possession of what appeared to be meth. Faulkner was jailed on charges related to the crash and later, after agents searched the car’s trunk, was arrested on drug charges.

April 4, 2014: Caribou

Old Washburn Road
Arrested: Keith Tingley, Jr., 47, of Caribou
Read Man arrested for operating a meth lab
Keith Tingley was charged with operating a meth lab when police, searching his mobile home during an unrelated investigation, discovered a lab in a crawl space.

April 3, 2014: Houlton
5 Johnson Street
Arrested: Thomas Lowery, 36, of Caribou
Read Maine man arrested on meth charge after garage catches fire
Houlton firefighters responded to a fire in a garage on Johnson Street. The discovery of materials for making meth prompted firefighters to call in police and drug agents. Lowery was arrested and charged with making methamphetamine.

March 25, 2014: Hodgdon
699 Walker Road

Arrested: Marcus Toner, 24, of Hodgdon
Read MDEA searching suspected meth lab in Hodgdon
Marcus Toner was charged with trafficking in methamphetamine after MDEA agents searched the house on Walker Road and found evidence of a meth lab. A 17-year-old girl who was with Toner at the time was released to the custody of her mother.

March 22, 2014: Danforth
34 Wetherbee Street
Arrested: Allen Richardson, 39, and Tabbatha Osnoe, 30, both of Danforth
Read More tests needed to determine cause of Maine baby’s death
Richardson and Osnoe took their baby son to the hospital because he was not breathing. While they were at the hospital, their mobile home caught on fire. Officials found evidence of a small meth manufacturing operation. The two were charged and jailed. The cause of the death of the baby is still under investigation.

February 7, 2014: Oxford, Greenwood, Albany, Mason Township and Gilead
Arrested: David Thompson, 52, and Mico Thompson, 31, both of Gilead; Rodney Levesque, 35, of Oxford; Scott Hart, 36, and Amanda Thompson, 28, both of Albany; Joshua Spencer, 28, and Heidi Owens, 24, both of Greenwood; Joel Mills, 38, of Mason Township,
Read Maine police charge 8 after raiding two suspected meth labs
Maine drug agents executed search warrants at five houses in Oxford County and found two meth labs. Evidence was found in a house in Gilead and in a truck near the Flagship Cinemas in Oxford.
Left, top to bottom: David Thompson, Scott Hart, Heidi Owens and Amanda Thompson. Right, top to bottom: Rodney Levesque, Joel Mills, Joshua Spencer and Mico Thompson.

March 7, 2014: Oakland, Waterville
11 Center St., Oakland; Fireside Inn & Suites, Waterville
Arrested: Eric “Joe” Finnemore, 35, of Linneus; James Bell, 43, of Winslow; Christopher McEachern, 27; Corey Stevens, 22; Katherine Tibbetts, 48, and Rachel Wolfe, 26, all of Oakland
Read Aroostook County man sentenced in Waterville-area meth ring.
After a month-long investigation into methamphetamine manufacture and sale in Waterville and Oakland, police raided two apartments on Center Street in Oakland and a room at the Fireside Inn in Waterville. The raids resulted in the arrest of six people. Finnemore admitted that he recruited the others to buy pseudoephedrine, an ingredient in meth, for him.
Top to bottom: Eric Finnemore, James Bell, Christopher McEachern