drugs

Police in Lewiston arrested 14 on drug charges including drug possession and trafficking

It’s a Thursday, so why not a ‘Throwback Thursday’ story. I’m running out of them, but I wanted to do this one where it has some relevance today. Maybe I was naive, maybe it was safer 20 years ago to be a weekly resident at an inexpensive motel? Here are my thoughts if you read on.

Is it legal to do a random drug search in a high school? I'm not a lawyer, but I am a parent of an Edward Little student, and Edward Little High School is beginning random drug searches using a K9.

Last night at the TD Garden in Boston a reported 86 people were treated for medical conditions during an Avicii Concert. A said 30 were taken to the hospital due to mostly drug and alcohol use.

Crime, sex, and drugs, but the only rock 'n' roll in these women's lives is the time they've wasted going in and out of the corrections system in Maine, all because of their addiction to drugs. "Most of them never start out intending to become addicts and criminals," states Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty.

One of the scariest professions has to be being a police officer. They never know what they’ll discover during a routine traffic stop. Yesterday in Auburn, an officer pulled over Jean Valbrun, a 25 year old from Lowell, MA on Washington St.

Heroin use in Maine is on the rise. Twenty-eight of 163 people who died from overdoses in 2012 were due to heroin. Last year's numbers will likely exceed those of 2012. The 2013 numbers have yet to be released.

In another case of "Really? Someone actually did that?", a woman from North Dakota was discovered bleeding from her vagina after a car accident, but not because of the crash. The glass meth pipe she stuck in there had broken.

Drugs with a street value of $11,000 were seized Friday(Nov. 15) afternoon after State Police pulled over a car on Interstate 95 near mile marker 134 in Benton. Seized from the Massachusetts couple was 53 grams of heroin, 10 grams of crack and a small quantity of marijuana...

Persephanie Lesperance, a runner-up in the 2013 Maxim magazine 'Hometown Hottie' contest, has been charged with conspiracy to commit the sale of heroin and unlawful possession of Suboxone, a controlled drug.

I'm not sure whether to just be sad and heartbroken or just mad. I'm not here to judge or try to sound better than thou. There are just too many good people that have had their lives sucked away too early because of substance abuse or complications related to it...

All mothers love their sons, but some are more affectionate than others.

I once had a teacher who put us down for naps during the school day while she would drink from a bottle she had hidden in her desk. Well, my kindergarten teacher had nothing on this Syracuse 'educator' arrested last week.

There's been yet another pharmacy robbery in Augusta. Augusta Police say the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street was robbed Tuesday (Jan. 22) around 4pm.

Hey this was MY idea... GPS chips in certain drug bottles. Well, the New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around NYC to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips. With so many pharmacy robberies in Maine last year, we can see where this is a good idea.

Maine drug agents say last week's arrest of an alleged bath salts dealer shows the drug is still in widespread use in parts of Maine.  We heard a lot about bath salts last year in Maine as those who used turned violent. But, officials are seeing less of the violence.