LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine — Three people have been arrested, and what police are describing as a large methamphetamine lab on Fayette Road has been dismantled by Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, according a state official.
The three suspects were arrested Friday afternoon, and the lab was dismantled Saturday, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland indicated in statement released Saturday afternoon. Police seized “several batches” of the drug from the home of John Josey, 44, and his girlfriend, Christina Stanford, 35, at 249 Fayette Road, according to McCausland. The couple and Jay resident Brittany Pomerleau, 29, are facing charges related to the alleged operation of manufacturing meth at the property. Pomerlau was arrested Friday at her home at 14 Adams Road.
“The MDEA meth lab team spent several hours Saturday securing the home and seizing the drug and the ingredients used to make it,” McCausland wrote. “More arrests are likely, as the group is suspected of making methamphetamine and distributing the drug in the Livermore Falls-Jay area for some time.”
He said each suspect is behind bars on $10,000 bail, with Josey and Stanford being held at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn and Pomerleau at the Franklin County Jail in Farmington.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services was notified about the incident because a teenager also lived at the mobile home, though the teen was not at home when drug agents arrived Friday, he said.
The incident represents the 13th meth lab response this year by MDEA, according to McCausland.
