ELLSWORTH, Maine — A man and woman from Hancock County who were charged with drug offenses when police found them in possession of more than 250 prescription pills last spring each have pleaded guilty and been sentenced to serve more than a year behind bars.
Gregory A. Trundy, 51, of Hancock, began serving his 18-month incarceration term on Monday. Last month, he pleaded guilty to seven charges resulting from three different incidents, including one on May 30 of last year when he and Amy M. Poors, 41, of Ellsworth, were stopped in Franklin by a Maine State Police trooper for riding an all-terrain vehicle on a public way.
The trooper became suspicious when they appeared to be trying to conceal something from him and, after questioning them about it, found them to be in possession of approximately 170 Percocet pills and approximately 100 Adderall pills, Hancock County District Attorney Matthew Foster has said.
Both Trundy and Poors were indicted last December on the resulting drug charges.
Trundy also faced charges stemming from a high-speed chase with Ellsworth police in December, and then from another drug bust in January when state police troopers went to his house to investigate reports that he and Poors were selling drugs. At the house, troopers found Trundy and Poors to be in possession of cocaine, Ritalin and Alprazolam, according to court documents.
Both have prior drug convictions, court documents indicate. Trundy was convicted in 2006 in Ellsworth of unlawful furnishing of scheduled drugs, while Poors was convicted in December 2013 in Ellsworth of unlawful trafficking of scheduled drugs.
On Feb. 8, Trundy pleaded guilty to one count each of eluding an officer, failure to stop for an officer and unlawful trafficking in drugs; and to two charges each of unlawful possession of drugs and violating conditions of release.
Overall he received a five-year sentence with all but 18 months suspended, and was ordered to serve two years of probation upon his release. He also was ordered to pay $800 in fines and, as part of his subsequent probation, to pay $4,200 to Open Door Recovery Center in Ellsworth.
Trundy, a commercial lobsterman, was allowed to delay the start of his sentence until Feb. 29 in order to give him time to remove his lobster traps from the water, according to court documents.
Poors pleaded guilty last month to one count of unlawful trafficking of scheduled drugs, two counts of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and one count of violating conditions of release. She was sentenced to serve concurrent three-year terms for each of the drug convictions and a concurrent 30 days on the violating conditions of release conviction, and ordered to pay $600 in fines.
