BANGOR, Maine - Maine drug enforcement agents have taken five people into custody for the alleged manufacture and sale of methamphetamine at a Hancock County mobile home park.
And when Department of Environmental Protection officials finish up there, they'll be heading north to Patten to dismantle another lab.
"This has been, so far - and it's only Wednesday- a very, very active week for our MDEA agents," says Maine
Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland.
McCausland says members of the department, following last year's 56 dismantled meth labs, suspected it would be a busy year. But he says even they are surprised.
'We were expecting it, frankly - not as large as it has been so far this year. This will obviously be a record-breaking year for meth manufacturing and arrests here in Maine. And MDEA have their hands full in going to these sites because they're extremely costly to clean up."
In addition to the meth labs in Hancock and Patten, McCausland says the department has also made other significant drug arrests this week in Paris and Bangor.
