SUSPECTED — MDEA’s lab team executed a search warrant at the home of Felisha Suitter, 32, on the Timoney Lake Road in Smyrna. MDEA agents believed its residents were believed to be manufacturing methamphetamine.
SMYRNA — For the second time in a month, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officials have raided a southern Aroostook County residence where its residents were believed to be manufacturing methamphetamine.
MDEA’s lab team executed a search warrant at the home of Felisha Suitter, 32, on the Timoney Lake Road in Smyrna Wednesday afternoon. MDEA Agents had been investigating reports of criminal drug activity at this location for some time and sought a search warrant Wednesday morning. Shortly after 2:00 p.m. MDEA agents, state troopers and Sheriff’s deputies arrived at Suitter’s mobile home, armed with that search warrant, according to Darrell Crandall, MDEA division commander.
Suitter attempted to flee through a rear entrance, but was unsuccessful.
“The search took several hours as team members in chemical and fire resistant suits and breathing apparatus scoured the trailer and an outbuilding on the property,” Crandall said. “Agents and the team’s forensic chemist seized equipment, chemicals and other items used in the making of methamphetamine, as well as an unspecified amount of the finished product.”
The Department of Environmental Protection assisted at the scene, as did the Oakfield and Houlton Fire Departments.
Suitter was arrested and taken to the Aroostook County Jail and charged with aggravated trafficking in methamphetamine, which is a class A crime. The offense is aggravated because of a prior drug conviction. If convicted, Suitter faces a minimum four-year prison sentence.
On Jan. 29, MDEA agents raided a home in Houlton and charged five people with trafficking methamphetamine.
Information on drug crimes may be reported to MDEA at 1-800-452-6457, at MDEA’s website at www.maine.gov/dps/mdea or at MDEA’s smartphone application for iPhone and Android at MyPD.
