BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor woman whose arrest on Wednesday night triggered a drug raid on Thursday at her Birch Street home apparently has implicated her boyfriend in connection with a suspected methamphetamine manufacturing operation, according to court documents filed Friday.
Amanda Rounds, 27, is charged with aggravated assault, a Class B felony that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison, as well as criminal mischief. Rounds’ bail was set at $7,500 cash during a court appearance Friday at the Penobscot Judicial Center.
Cmdr. Peter Arno of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said Thursday that state drug agents executed a search warrant at 141 Birch St.
“We seized a fair amount of evidence over there,” Arno said Thursday night.
The MDEA also searched a black Chrysler Sebring that was being held at the city’s impound lot off Hammond Street, he said.
Bangor police said Thursday that Bangor police arrested Rounds after she allegedly struck a bicyclist on Birch Street who later was identified as her boyfriend, 26-year-old Brandin Bouchard.
During a follow-up investigation, Bangor police determined that it was possible that the incident may have involved the production of meth, Sgt. Tim Cotton said in a news release issued on Thursday.
That information was turned over to MDEA, he said.
Bouchard was being held at the Penobscot County Jail on Friday. He was arrested on Thursday on five active warrants not related to the raid.
A Bangor Police Department report submitted to the court Friday noted that a relative with whom the couple was living told investigators that “she has smelled strange odors from the attic recently, where Mr. Bouchard lives” and that Rounds and Bouchard “fight constantly and that they had both been heavily into drugs a few years ago.”
A report submitted to the court by another Bangor police officer noted that while she was being placed under arrest, Rounds told investigators that Bouchard was “cooking homemade meth go search my house.”
The report also stated that Rounds told police that Bouchard had been cooking meth since early October.
She said he “cooks ‘shake and bake’ [meth] in Gatorade bottles for his own personal use, but that he has said things to the effect of ‘If I don’t cook this shit I’m going to get my ass kicked’ by ‘some big biker dude,’” the police report said.
As of Sunday, neither Bouchard nor Rounds had been charged in connection with the alleged meth lab, a jail official said. Bouchard was no longer at the jail, but Rounds remained behind bars unable to pay her bail. One of her conditions upon release is that she cannot have contact with Bouchard, the jail official said.
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