Maine State Police arrested four individuals on drug charges after stopping a vehicle in Fairfield for inoperable tail lights Saturday night.

After a trooper stopped the vehicle on Route 201, he recognized driver Daniel Pallis, 35, and passenger Maria Jackson, 30, as two people who in August fought with a trooper who was trying to arrest Jackson in Augusta, according to Lt. Aaron M. Turcotte.

Pallis, of Dresden, was charged with aggravated trafficking of schedule W drugs and two counts of violating conditions of release. Jackson, of Richmond, was charged with aggravated trafficking of schedule W Drugs and an arrest warrant for refusing to submit to arrest or detention and violating conditions of release.

Police arrested two other passengers: Paul Duplin, 35, of Whitefield, who was charged with aggravated trafficking of schedule W drugs, violating conditions of release and unlawful possession of schedule W drugs and David Levasseur, 38, of Lisbon, who was charged with aggravated trafficking of schedule W drugs and trafficking in prison contraband.

Paul Koenig is chief digital editor at the Bangor Daily News. He previously spent six years at Maine magazine, as managing editor and then editor. Before that he worked at Old Port magazine, Mainebiz and...