ELLSWORTH, Maine — An Otis woman on Monday began serving a 60-day jail sentence after having been convicted of theft and drug charges.
Azure Averill, 30, recently pleaded guilty to stealing money that police were using as part of a drug sting and to a separate charge of trafficking in prescription drugs, according to documents filed at the Hancock County Courthouse.
Averill was targeted by a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency drug operation in the summer of 2010, according to an affidavit filed in Hancock County Superior Court by an MDEA agent. In an attempted drug transaction in Ellsworth on June 18 of that year, Averill was given $60 with the understanding that in return she would give the supposed buyer one 80-milligram OxyContin pill later in the day, police wrote in the document. The money belonged to MDEA and was being used by MDEA as part of an attempted drug sting.
After taking the money, Averill allegedly never showed up at the arranged meeting point, according to the affidavit. Averill, who had a prior theft conviction in September 2007 in Hancock County Superior Court, subsequently was charged with theft by deception.
A month after the attempted drug transaction, Averill was charged with trafficking in the prescription drug promethazine HCL in Bar Harbor, according to separate Ellsworth District Court documents. Further details about the incident that led to that charge were unavailable Thursday afternoon.
take the money and run. LOL
Funny If someone rips you off in a drug deal they can be charged? If someone gave me money and said get me some drugs I would say sorry sucker. Did she have any drugs? Is it not against the law to buy drugs? Why are the MDEA not charged with trying to buy drugs agents should be charged . Goes to show the cops can break the law all they want and get away with it. (Oh when I was buying the drugs it was part of my work.) Makes you wonder how many law enforcement agents either use drugs or have family that dose and will have a rock solid excuse to use if they are caught.
There are a lot of things I wanted to say after reading your post but I think your statement says enough about you that I don’t have to.
DITTO !
When is the MDEA coming to Skowhegan and the Southern Somerset County area? The area is drowning in illegal drugs. Take a look around at the unemployed punks driving around with $3000 truck tires and wheels, and often with a ATV or snowmobile in the back. How do you think they can afford them? People i know that live in Bingham are saying drug deals are going on right in the street,even in daytime.
“Theft by deception?” I am not defending the crook here, but who is supposed to be deceiving whom here?
Looks like the DEA agents need a little more training?
LOL Folks, the inmates are running the asylum!
Time for a volunteer civilian police review board with subpoena powers.
Whadya say we start with the Sheriff, eh?
see link for full story
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/08/BAKQ1NI49N.DTL&tsp=1
Ex-sheriff’s deputy charged with embezzling $300K
Henry K. Lee
Thursday, March 8, 2012
(03-08) 16:20 PST EL DORADO HILLS, EL DORADO COUNTY —
A retired El Dorado County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Thursday for
allegedly embezzling more than $300,000 by falsely claiming that the
union he headed had made charitable donations, including to the families
of four Oakland police officers shot and killed in 2009.
I know this person and worked with her in her younger days. Back then she was a known liar and couldn’t be trusted. This doesn’t surprise me one bit, I wouldn’t have left a one dollar bill lying in front of her. It’s unfortunate, but her decisions are her own. How likely is it that a leopard changes her spots this late in the game?
It sounds like she was supposed to talk somebody into selling her a pill so the MDEA could arrest them for selling drugs. It sounds pretty sleazy to me; just like entrapment. Oh well, another rat gone bad.