PORTLAND — A Boston man was convicted Tuesday following a two-day jury trial in U.S. District Court, according to U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank. Cuwan Merritt, 29, was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as crack. On May 13, 2017, Merritt and Michael Artis traveled from Boston with the intent to sell crack in Lewiston. […]
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Skowhegan woman, friend of John D. Williams, indicted on drug charges
SKOWHEGAN — Kristina A. Pomerleau, the woman said to be the girlfriend of police-slaying suspect John D. Williams, has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on two felony drug charges. Pomerleau, 32, who lived at 357 Water St. in Skowhegan, according to court documents, is charged by the grand jury with unlawful possession […]
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Cocaine, pipe found in inmate’s prosthetic leg after drug overdose, police say
AUGUSTA — A Skowhegan woman is charged with unlawful drug possession after she allegedly overdosed in jail and was taken to the hospital, where nurses reported finding crack and a crack pipe in her prosthetic leg. Sonya Marie Engelhardt, 41, who also has an address in Athens, was scheduled to appear before a judge Wednesday […]
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N.Y. driver ‘hurrying up to meet a girl for sex’ detoured in Augusta by speeding and drug charges
AUGUSTA —A New York man stopped for speeding Tuesday evening in Augusta told the state police officer who stopped him he was rushing to go have sex with a girl on Franklin Street, police said. Instead, he ended up behind bars on a charge of unlawful trafficking in cocaine and operating without a license. Deondray […]
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Police arrest drug trafficking suspect in downtown Farmington
FARMINGTON — Police said a Farmington man was charged with drug trafficking after they found cocaine and marijuana at his downtown apartment Thursday night. Omer Havtan, 20, was arrested after police got a warrant and searched his apartment at 164 Broadway, Farmington Police Chief Jack Peck said. It is within 1,000 feet of Meetinghouse Park, […]
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Two Phillips residents plead guilty to meth lab operation
FARMINGTON — A Phillips man is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 2 on a drug charge for a methamphetamine lab officials broke up on the Rangeley Road in Phillips on July 15. Michael Halle, 46, one of four co-defendants in the case, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs on […]